Are there any orders in Islam urges to be compassionate to animals?
The orders of Islam urge to be merciful and compassionate to humans, animals and all creatures, for example:
1- The prophet (Blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) prohibited sitting on animals as people talking to each other, he ordered them to get off the animals and talk then ride again and go, he said: (Don’t make your animals’ backs as chairs.)
2- He (Blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) forbade locking any animal and getting it to starve, he told that if anyone did this, he will go to hell, he (Blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: (A woman was tortured because she imprisoned a cat to death so she gone to hell, she never gave it food or water when she imprisoned it, nor she let it eat from the grass on land.)
3- He (Blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) told that the favor of being beneficent to any animal is to go to paradise, he (Blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: (As a dog was circling a well dying of thirst, a whore saw it, she took off her shoe and got him water to drink, she was forgiven for this.)
4- The prophet (Blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) prohibited to set fire in the place of ants and said to his companions: (Don’t torture by fire, only God tortures by it.)
5- He prohibited inciting animals i.e. encouraging them to fight, like bullfighting that we see nowadays, it was narrated after Ibn-Abbas: (The apostle of Allah prohibited inciting animals.)
There are many other prophetic recommendations that make Muslims beneficent and compassionate to their animals, Abu-Tharr talked to his camel when he was at his deathbed and said: O camel, don’t complain me to your God at the Day of Judgment, I didn’t make you starve or bear you more than your ability.
There is also an amazing incident narrated after Amr Ibn-Al-Aas, when he entered Egypt and located his tent at Al-Fostat (a place in Cairo now), he wanted to fold the tents to move to Alexandria when he knew that the Romans collected there, they told him that two doves made a nest and laid their eggs on his tent, he ordered them to let that tent so as not to frighten the two doves or break their eggs, and they went to Alexandria without it.
Is there compassion and mercy to animals more than this?
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