Doubts Concerning the Camel Urine Hadith

𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐭𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐥 𝐔𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐡

Mohamad Mostafa Nassar

Twitter@NassarMohamadMR

Question:

We are surprised to read in one of your answers that the Prophet (peace be upon him) permitted drinking camel’s urine as medically useful for a certain disease. What is even more surprising is the logic you used, saying that drinking the camel’s urine is permissible because its flesh is permissible to eat. If so, does this apply to other animals?

This is contrary to all our knowledge. How authentic is this Hadith? Please review your answer and explain.

Answer:

First let us start with

Atheists:

you have no religious prohibition to eat anything or drink anything, one of my work colleagues was atheist and homosexual too, and he told me that he would eat any type of meat, rats, dogs, crocodiles, basically anything, his justification was all meat came from cells. also, you drink fuel, which is Alcohol, if you are a drinker

Christians:

you eat the body of your God and drink his blood (yes, I know it is metaphorical still), also you drink fuel, which is Alcohol, if you are a drinker.

Indian cow worshippers: everyone know that you eat cow dung and drink cow urine., also, you drink fuel, which is Alcohol, if you are a drinker

Cosmetic industry uses the Blood of Deliberately ABORTED animal fetus for makeup it considered high quality and expensive

Common Medications Produced by Big Pharma and Made With Animal Byproducts

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The Hadith is authentic, and scholars have taken it as the basis of several Islamic rulings, such as inflicting the capital punishment on a group of people if they took part in the murder of one person, and inflicting two or more punishments, even though one of these is death, if the offender had committed another crime before committing murder.

The Hadith states: “A group of people from Uraynah and Ukl came to the Prophet, but then they were ill in Madinah. They complained to the Prophet and he said to them:

‘If you go out to where the charity camels graze, and drink from their urine and milk.’ They did. When they were cured, they killed the shepherds and took the camels away, and made war against God and His messenger. The Prophet sent a force to chase them and they were overtaken.

He ordered the cutting of their hands and legs, popping their eyes and leaving them in the sun until they died.” (Related by Al-Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawood, Al-Nassaie and Al-Tirmidhi).

As you see, this Hadith is very authentic, and when we are faced with an authentic Hadith that is contrary to what we have learned, or to our preconceived ideas, we should look at it carefully, and revise our previous knowledge.

Before answering your criticism and explaining the rest of the Hadith, I would like to say that I never said that the camel’s urine is permissible to drink because the camel’s flesh is permissible to eat. What I said is that the urine of any animal that is permissible to eat is not impure, i.e. not najis.

In Islamic law, najis (Arabic: نجس‎) means ritually unclean.^[1] According to Islam, there are two kinds of najis: the essential najis which cannot be cleaned and the unessential najis which become najis while in contact with another najis

This applies to sheep, cows, goats, etc. The complaint of those people was a disease known as dropsy, which causes the tummy to swell and is very debilitating. The Prophet indicated to them that camel’s milk and urine are useful against this disease, and he also implied that staying outside Madinah, would be of benefit to their health, since they fell ill after they had stayed in the city for several days.

Medical doctors have established that camel milk and urine are particularly useful for this disease. In most cases, the milk would be sufficient, but perhaps in their case, the disease was so severe that the Prophet ordered them to drink the camel’s urine as well.

If you wish to look at this case more carefully, you need to study this disease and what cures it. You will then need to look at the particular qualities of camel’s milk and urine. You are bound to find out that they contain some qualities or ingredients that are particularly effective against dropsy.

Having been treated by the Muslim state, these people killed the shepherd tending the camels and stole the camels after they regained their health. Some versions of this Hadith make it clear that they also popped at least one shepherd’s eyes and left him to die.

Thus, they were guilty of several crimes at the same time, including murder, torture of the shepherd, and making war against God and His messenger. Hence, the Prophet ordered that punishment for each of these crimes to be inflicted first, before they were executed.

Their eyes were popped in retaliation for popping the shepherd’s eyes, and their limbs were cut because they made war against God and His messenger.

This punishment is prescribed in the Qur’an: “It is but a just punishment of those who make war on God and His messenger, and endeavor to spread corruption on earth, that they should be put to death, or be crucified, or have their hands and feet cut off on alternate sides or that they should be banished from the land. Such is their disgrace in this world, and more grievous suffering awaits them in the life to come.” Qur’an (5: 33)

Scholars have based on this Hadith the ruling that committing a more serious crime does not waive the punishment of the lesser crime. Thus, the fact that these people killed the shepherds after popping the eyes of one of them did not limit their punishment to “death for killing”, but they were punished for the lesser offense first.

There was a recent case in Britain where the police were absolutely certain that two people took part in the killing of a child, but the police were unable to charge them with murder because they could not establish which of the two was the one who dealt the killing blow. In Islam, this is not needed.

On the basis of this Hadith, the two would have been charged with murder and punished accordingly. All those people were punished for the same crime, because they all took part in it.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐲:

Camel urine drinking is not a mandatory instruction in Islam, or a tradition of Prophet Muhammed peace be upon him. However, fifteen centuries ago, in the middle of the Arabian desert and in the absence of modern pharmaceutical medicines.

People including Jews, Christian, Arab Pagans used tried various herps and fluids, camel urine was one of them. Prophet Muhammed peace be upon him approved Camel urine based on what Allah taught him.

Such approval of camel urine was for emergency medical treatment and was not a mandatory Islamic practice. It is worth noting the modern medical examinations proves the various medical benefits of using camel urine as a medical treatment for those who do not mind using it.

There have been several European and Western non-Muslim companies producing Beer by using human urine as well as there have been many other non-Muslim European and Western companies providing what they call it Urine Therapy.

𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐥 𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝, 𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦 𝐃𝐎𝐄𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

The Danish “PISNER” beer is made from human urine.

And the company collects more than 50,000 liters per day of human urine from designated collection points in public parks and spread in the open air, and it pays a fee for those who urinate at these points, amounting to 4 euros per liter of urine.

After that, the urine is transported in tanks to the factory, where it is analyzed, sterilized, and filtered from toxins, before it is recycled and packaged to be ready for consumption.

Most of the beer is consumed in Denmark, and the price of one bottle is 37 euros. The surplus is exported to the rest of European countries, especially Sweden. As the beer has a quality certificate from the European Food and Drug Authority.

Beer Made from Urine at This Singapore Brewery

Singapore has taken “innovations” in beer-brewing a notch higher with the introduction of ‘Newbrew.’ While it may appear or taste like usual beer, there’s an unconventional twist to it. The brewery’s unique craft beer is made using ‘Newater,’ Singapore’s brand of clean, high-quality water recycled from sewage and urine.

the Arab secularist and enemies of Islam, are ready to drink this beer because his European masters drink it. but he attacks drinking camel urine for treatment, which is a confirmed prophetic Sunnah, although most scientific studies have proven the health benefits of urine for camels.

Note:

For your information, this is not the only company that manufactures beer from urine. There are other companies in the Czech Republic, Norway, Sweden, and Poland that make beer from horse urine or reindeer urine, which is the most common in these countries.

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