Is it permissible to supplicate with evil against one who unjustly harms animals, such as one who flays them alive or intentionally slaughters them with a dull instrument, and that after prayer and at any time?
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It is forbidden to torture animals or to mutilate them. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, cursed those who do so. It is also forbidden to slaughter with a dull instrument unless necessity dictates it. However, the slaughtered animal is if slaughtered with it, even if the act itself is forbidden. It is disliked to slaughter with a dull instrument, to sharpen it while the animal watches, to orient the animal away from the , to break its neck, or to skin it before it has cooled down. It is not prescribed to supplicate against a Muslim merely because they have sinned by torturing an animal.
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