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Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

Don't make the backs of animals your chairs. God gave these to your
command only on the condition that you go with them easily to
places you would not been able to go by yourselves without extreme
trouble. He also created the ground. Meet your other needs on the
ground. (Sunan Abu Dawud, Jihad 61, [2667])

Another hadith reads;

Ride your animals gently and only when they are fit to be ridden,
and let them go free when it is meet that they should rest. Do not
use them as chairs for talking to one another on the roads and streets

(do not spend hours talking to one another while seated on them).
(Ahmad, III, 439)

Working Animals' Right to Rest

Our Prophet (pbuh) gave working animals the right to rest in
the same way as human beings, and stressed the need for animals to
rest and meet their needs when rest stops were called along the road.

Our Prophet (pbuh) Prohibited the Abuse and
Mistreatment of Animals

Our Prophet (pbuh) said, "Whoever kills a sparrow or anything big-
ger than that without a just cause, God will hold him accountable on the

Day of Judgment." (Sunan Abu Dawud, 2/11) and commanded that
"birds' nests should not be damaged and their eggs and chicks should not
be taken." (Sahih Bukhari, 139)

Our Prophet (pbuh) stopped someone who was beating the ani-
mal he was riding on and stated that this was a violation of the law
of God. "God did not create animals for you to do that to them," he said.
(Musnad Ahmad, 4/131)

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