Question
Is it permissible to keep stuffed buck heads displayed in the house? My friend says that it is permissible because his local imam has such heads in his house.
Answer
Both hunting and keeping the buck heads are haraam. Hunting is not permissible for sport.
The local Imaam's haraam deed is not the Shariah. If the local Imaam kills, steals or commits zina will it become halaal? Castigating those who make gods out of their imams and molvis, the Qur'aan says: "They take their scholars and their saints for gods besides Allah…."
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- The Majlis Vol 22 No 08
- PDF page
- 4
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