The streets of Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka turned red on Eid-ul-Adha, a Muslim festival of sacrifice, after the blood of thousands of sheep, goats and cows slaughtered as offering combined with flood water. People in Dhaka shared pictures of the streets with blood-stained water on social media as a heavy spell of rains on Tuesday added to the problem in the city with poor drainage systems. Residents were seen walking through ankle-high water awashed with blood and animal remains. According to BBC Bengali, residents sacrificed 100,000 livestock this year, mainly on the streets or at underground garages in residential buildings. I was really horrified by seeing a young boy cutting the throat of poor animal in one of these pics.
None of the scriptures of any religion speaks about the killing of animals and states about sever reactions for killing innocent creatures. Religion has always talked about mercy and compassion towards others including beasts and birds. In fact if you see our previous leaders and kings, they always considered animals like their own citizens. King Parikshit released bull and cow from being beaten up by Shudra, Shivaji Maharaj protected the cows from being slaughtered by mullas and there are so many such examples. Even in Islam, mistreating an animal is considered a sin. The Quran and guidance from the Prophet Muhammad, as recorded in hadith, give many examples and directives about how Muslims should treat animals. In some of the places it says,“A good deed done to an animal is like a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is as bad as cruelty to a human being, Whoever is kind to the creatures of God, is kind to himself" -The Prophet Muhammad.
There are several quotations from Bhagavad Gita, Manu Samhita, Bible, Quran and other religious texts which forbids the animal killing, but some people had misinterpreted these holy scriptures and fooled people asking them to eat meat. It's a common sense to think, how can God will like his own children being killed and tortured? Also how much is it acceptable to kill someone for own tongue? Why to make our body as a tomb for other innocent creatures, they also have right to live, who are we and what right we have to kill them? Just because we have got little extra intelligence over animals, we exploited them...for us it may be just meal but for animals it's their life. Dying is not pleasurable it's hurts them tremendously, they also have the soul and feelings, those who take pleasure in slaughting just ask them to cut own finger a little and see how much pain is involved, now what to say of cutting someone's throat.
See animals as living being like all of us and not as food, care for them and just see how affectionately they also reciprocate. And if we still continue to kill them for our pleasure then nature will take revenge on behalf of them, Once Socrates said,'there will be war fields till the time slaughter houses exist in world'. How can someone kill 1 lakh animal in one city in one day on the name of religion? Slaughtering is not a religious act, it's a inhuman act, so it's not at all a sign of religious heart because religion has always taught about mercy and not cruelty!
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Sent by iskcondesiretree.com
None of the scriptures of any religion speaks about the killing of animals and states about sever reactions for killing innocent creatures. Religion has always talked about mercy and compassion towards others including beasts and birds. In fact if you see our previous leaders and kings, they always considered animals like their own citizens. King Parikshit released bull and cow from being beaten up by Shudra, Shivaji Maharaj protected the cows from being slaughtered by mullas and there are so many such examples. Even in Islam, mistreating an animal is considered a sin. The Quran and guidance from the Prophet Muhammad, as recorded in hadith, give many examples and directives about how Muslims should treat animals. In some of the places it says,“A good deed done to an animal is like a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is as bad as cruelty to a human being, Whoever is kind to the creatures of God, is kind to himself" -The Prophet Muhammad.
There are several quotations from Bhagavad Gita, Manu Samhita, Bible, Quran and other religious texts which forbids the animal killing, but some people had misinterpreted these holy scriptures and fooled people asking them to eat meat. It's a common sense to think, how can God will like his own children being killed and tortured? Also how much is it acceptable to kill someone for own tongue? Why to make our body as a tomb for other innocent creatures, they also have right to live, who are we and what right we have to kill them? Just because we have got little extra intelligence over animals, we exploited them...for us it may be just meal but for animals it's their life. Dying is not pleasurable it's hurts them tremendously, they also have the soul and feelings, those who take pleasure in slaughting just ask them to cut own finger a little and see how much pain is involved, now what to say of cutting someone's throat.
See animals as living being like all of us and not as food, care for them and just see how affectionately they also reciprocate. And if we still continue to kill them for our pleasure then nature will take revenge on behalf of them, Once Socrates said,'there will be war fields till the time slaughter houses exist in world'. How can someone kill 1 lakh animal in one city in one day on the name of religion? Slaughtering is not a religious act, it's a inhuman act, so it's not at all a sign of religious heart because religion has always taught about mercy and not cruelty!
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Sent by iskcondesiretree.com
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