Thursday, 21 February 2019

Benefit: Angels Do Not Enter a House in Which There Is a Dog or an Image



Benefit: Angels Do Not Enter a House

 in Which There Is a Dog or an Image

The Prophet, may Allāh raise his rank and grant him peace, stated: «Angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog or an image.»1

Ibn Taymīyyah (d. AH 728) commented: 

If dogs and pictures prevent the created angels from entering a home, how then would the knowledge and love of Allāh, the sweetness of His remembrance, and comfort with His nearness, penetrate a heart already fraught with bestial desires and their images?!2



[1] Reported by Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī from a ḥadīth of Abū Ṭalhah Zayd ibn Sahl al-Anṣārī, no. 3322

[2] Shaykh Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad, It‘hāf al-Anām.



Translated by Umm Sufyān Fāṭimah

Taken from: https://www.troid.org/brief-benefits/1669-benefit-angels-do-not-enter-a-house-in-which-there-is-a-dog-or-an-image

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