Sacrificing to Other than Allah

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Sacrificing to Other than Allah

Allah says
:
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Therefore turn in prayer to your Lord , and sacrificeto / to Him only / i.e..,sacrifice to Allah and in the name of Allah
"
.
Surah al-Kawthar /108/:2

The Prophet said
:
"
Allah will curse the one who sacrifice to anything other than Allah

".
Reported by Imaam Muslim , may Allah have mercy on him , in his Saheeh , no. 1978 , Abd al-Baaqi edition

This sin combines two haraam ( forbidden ) deeds , that of sacrificing to anything other than Allah and that of sacrificing in the name of anything other than Allah , both of which make the meat of the animal slaughtered haraam
.

One of the forms of sacrificing to anything other than Allah , which was known during the first Jahiliyyah (the time before Islam ) and is still widespread nowadays , is the practice of offering a sacrifice to the jinn ( demons , genii ) , whereby upon buying or construction a house or digging a well , people slaughter an animal at its entrance out of fear of harm from the resident jinn
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:

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