Dogs smell fear in a person miles away. Iβve always been a cat person - the only dogs I dislike r ones who r overly friendly to me..Iβm generally a cold/distant person, bt Iβm touchy when it comes to cats. Despite being born/raised Muslim, both sides of my family were dog owners.
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I usually just walk past dogs like itβs nothing + most of the time they leave me alone. If they come up to me, I end up petting them unless they catch me in a split second off guard. When you donβt make eye contact with dogs, most of the time they leave you alone.
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One day a friend of mine explained to me that Prophet Muhammad was afraid of dogs or disliked them + thatβs y Muslims prefer cats, over dogs. My friend was also born/raised a Muslim, he prefers dogs over cats + thatβs when I realised dogs r disliked bc of one person - itβs silly.
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I used to hang out with Muslims years ago. Yeah, they hate dogs. It's from the ahadith. Rasulallah sallallahu alayhi wa salam said they were filthy. End of story... lol mashallah
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Many of them do, youβre right. I think bc my parents were from a secular Muslim country they were more lenient w dogs. I know a lot of Iraqis who are dog lovers, but then again, we arenβt the most religious people. Many are agnostic theists who have some doubts abt their faith.
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It's mainly the more fundamentalist Muslims that label dogs haram... the Salafis, the Wahhabis, Hanafis, etc.
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My parents are Hanafis. All of Sunni Arab Iraq is Hanafi. Sunni Kurds are Shafiβi.
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Maybe I'm thinking of the Deobandis... lol... there are so many sects of Islam... they are worse than the Baptists... lol
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Yes. According to Islamic texts itβs supposed to be 73 different sects, but Iβm sure we have more than that.