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Fatwa CenterA superstitious belief about pets
Question
Salamolakum-is it true that when one is keeping pets (or birds), calamities befall on pets first then on humans?
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
We do not know any evidence in the noble Sunnah supporting this statement; rather, this is nothing but a superstition and not a reality.
However, among the most important means of repelling afflictions in one’s own self, money and family is supplication. Thawbaan 
narrated that the Prophet said: “Nothing repels predestination except Dua'a (supplication).” [Ahmad, At-Tirmithi and Ibn Maajah]
Moreover, ‘Uthmaan Ibn ‘Affaan narrated that the Prophet said: “Whoever says at the beginning of his day or at the beginning of his night: Bismi Allaahi Al-Lathi Laa Yadhurru Ma'a Ismihi Shay'un Fil-Ardhi Walaa Fis-Samaa'i Wahowa As-Samee' Al-'Aleem) [In the Name of Allaah with whose name nothing on earth or in heaven can cause any harm, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing (three times), nothing will harm him on that day or that night.”
Allaah Knows best.
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