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Today is our regular Q&A, Alhamdulillah, we're back in our hall as we were, Alhamdulillah.

And I choose questions that I think are more relevant for our entire community.

For those who are watching online, remember that our email address is askyq at epicmessjid.org.

Askyq at epicmessjid.org.

Today's question is one that I have given a brief answer to almost two years ago, but

today I'm going to go into more detail.

And brother Ahmed from our own community asks, and he came to me personally.

So this is a question I'm not doing from email, it's from our own community.

He says that of late, more and more Muslim families are beginning to acquire dogs as pets.

And they say that it is allowed in some schools of law.

So is this true and is there any concession?

And he says that how do we answer when our children say, why would the sharia prohibit

owning a cute little puppy, okay?

So what do we say to our children in this regard?

So no doubt this is a very interesting question it has been discussed in our book since the

beginning of a scholarship.

And it also shows us the differences of cultures because I speak for most of us above the age

of I think 3035, where we are accustomed to culturally look down upon dogs.

I have never in my life wanted to touch a dog.

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