Can muslims keep dogs?

Question

Okay, it may be a really stupid question - it sound kind of stupid to me, but someone told me that muslims won't keep dogs as pets. Is this true?

Answer 1

yes, and I hear they are tasty too...but they are missing out on Bacon!

Answer 2

A law was passed recently in Pakistan or Iran (I think) where, because some study done showed that pets brought people together, they were no longer allowed to have them in marketplaces and the like. It is to keep a separation of gender.

Answer 3

No.

WTF.

Everyone keeps dogs as pets.

Except certain people also eat them. (Southeast Asia)

Yuck.

Dog meat.

Answer 4

The koran clearly expresses Allahs hate for  dogs.

He calls them dirty animals

Answer 5

i have a friend and she told me they can't keep dogs because it's haram(wrong)

Answer 6

in Islam it is allowed to keep dog for 2 reasons

1- hunting

2-guarding

Answer 7

I am Muslim  

we can not keep the dogs as pets

in fact we can not keep it in our home

we can keep it for hunting or for guarding the home (not inside it  , in garden ....etc)

the dogs make (nagasa) also the blood ........

we (muslims) can not pray in nagasa

Answer 8

Yes, as long as they were baptized by the pope.

Answer 9

According to a website I found, you can keep dogs.

Answer 10

Muslims keep dogs outside the houses. Dogs are not allowed to live inside the house.

Answer 11

I have a dog...

Answer 12

u can keep them 4 security reasons but as a pet, no.as thier saliva is considered najasa (impure)

ps.im a muslim myself

Answer 13

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