Can someone eat a snake so that one will not be bitten?

Praise be to Allah.

Firstly:

The majority of scholars are of the view that it is not permissible to eat the meat of vipers and snakes.

An-Nawawi (may Allah have mercy on him) said in al-Majmu‘ (9/16-17):

The views of the scholars regarding the vermin of the earth such as snakes, scorpions, black beetles, woodlice, mice and the like, our view is that they are haram. This is the view of Abu Hanifah, Ahmad and Dawud. Malik said: They are halal. End quote.

The correct view is the view of the majority, for several reasons:

1. Snakes are among the animals that catch prey with their fangs, and the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) forbade eating any wild animal that has fangs. Agreed upon.

2. Snakes are among the animals that the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) instructed us to kill. It was narrated from Ibn ‘Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) that he heard the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) delivering a khutbah from the minbar in which he said: “Kill snakes…” Agreed upon.

3. They are regarded as repulsive. Allah, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning):

{and makes lawful for them the good things and prohibits for them the bad things} [al-A‘raf 7:157].

The scholars of the Permanent Committee said:

It is not permissible to eat mice, snakes, venomous insects or monkeys, because they catch prey with their fangs, and the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) forbade eating any wild animal that has fangs, and because they are regarded as repulsive, and Allah, may He be exalted, says describing the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him):

{and [he] makes lawful for them the good things and prohibits for them the bad things} [al-A ‘raf 7:157].

End quote. Fatawa al-Lajnah ad-Da’imah (22/292).

Secondly:

The Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) forbade treating sickness with that which is haram, according to the report narrated by Abu Dawud (3874) from Abu’d-Darda’ (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: The Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “Allah has sent down the disease and the remedy, and He has created for every disease a remedy, so treat disease but do not treat it with anything that is haram.” Classed as sahih by al-Albani in Sahih al-Jami‘ (1762).

Ibn Mas‘ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said regarding intoxicants: Allah has not put your healing in that which He has forbidden to you. Narrated by al-Bukhari in a mu‘allaq report (5/2129).

Muslim (1948) narrated from Wa’il ibn Hajar (may Allah be pleased with him) that Tariq ibn Suwayd al-Ju‘fi asked the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) about khamr, and he forbade him to make it or expressed his disapproval of his making it. He said: I only make it as a remedy. He said: “It is not a remedy, but it is a disease.”

The scholars of the Permanent Committee were asked:

There is a man who uses snakes for medicinal purposes, and he claims that this is permissible because of circumstances and necessity. The way in which he uses the snake is that he picks it up and puts it in a pot of ghee when it is still alive, and the pot is boiling on the stove. After that, he treats people with the ghee in which he cooked the snake, and the one who uses it becomes slightly intoxicated. Is it permissible to treat sickness with this ghee, if it is proven to be beneficial? Is it permissible to put the snake into the ghee when it is boiling on the stove?

The scholars of the committee replied:

Firstly: it is not permissible to put a living animal into boiling liquid, because of what that involves of cruelty to animals, which is prohibited according to the words of the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him): “When you kill, kill well [without unnecessary suffering]…”

Secondly: it is not permissible to treat sickness with snakes or with ghee in which snakes have been cooked, because it is not permissible to eat them, according to the more correct of the two scholarly views. Their dead meat [meat that has not been slaughtered in the prescribed fashion] is impure (najis), and treating sickness with that which is haram is also haram."(Fatawa al-Lajnah ad-Da’imah 25/25-26).

Conclusion: it is not permissible to eat the meat of snakes, whether for medicinal purposes or for any other purpose. The foods and medicines that Allah has permitted are sufficient and there is no need for that which is haram.

And Allah knows best.

https://islamqa.info/en/answers/138842/ruling-on-eating-snake-meat-as-a-remedy

Following your logic, it is also not permissible to treat snake bikes since the anti-venom is derived from snakes.

This implies that anyone who is bitten by a snake must be left to die a slow and painful death, according to your logic.

Thanks for such a great insight.

One guy ate Snake pepper soup and he died of food poisoning three hours later. According to reports this happened in a village in my dream

I hope Allah s.w.a will make this post very useful to us. Thanks. Happy Friday!!!!

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Ma Shaa Allah! The conscious Muslim won't eat it.

Alhamdulillah!

truthCoder:
Following your logic, it is also not permissible to treat snake bikes since the anti-venom is derived from snakes.

This implies that anyone who is bitten by a snake must be left to die a slow and painful death, according to your logic.

Thanks for such a great insight.

Abi o, since the anti-venom (snake) will be injected into human Islam body, and Allah has commanded us not to eat/swallow anything partaining to snake.



It's time these guys started reason far above archaic instructions from religion(s)

But it is permissible to eat anything born from egg according to Qur'an, most snakes if not all are hashed through eggs, can you shed more light on this? may allah increase ur iman.

Assalamualaikum.
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Is Haram or Halal for a Muslim Scientist to work on Influenza Virus coming to very close contact with Pigs.

Also, Perhaps the Prophet must have Known, out of his wisdom, that the Rabies gene ( jin) cannot be exorcised (isolated) before the onset of Clinical Rabies and that on the onset of clinical Rabies, Recovery from "Madness" is impossible and so asked Muslims to be wary around Dogs.

Allah knows Best.

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truthCoder:
Following your logic, it is also not permissible to treat snake bikes since the anti-venom is derived from snakes.

This implies that anyone who is bitten by a snake must be left to die a slow and painful death, according to your logic.

Thanks for such a great insight.

Don't misquote him and don't misguide Muslims. Bro.

gloryman91:


Don't misquote him and don't misguide Muslims. Bro.

Did you read or you are just quick to defend?

How did I misquote him?

How am i misguiding muslims?

Whats your point?

Mashallah op may almighty Allah increase your knowledge.

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But it is permissible for you guys to strap yourselves with suicide vest? Religion of terrorists

truthCoder:
Following your logic, it is also not permissible to treat snake bikes since the anti-venom is derived from snakes.

This implies that anyone who is bitten by a snake must be left to die a slow and painful death, according to your logic.

Thanks for such a great insight.

I don't know your religion but obviously, you got the message wrong and should have thrown your 'reasoning' as question to OP!

There are some animals/insects that carry both venom and their Anti-Venom. Extracting anti-venom of any deadly animal/insect (and considering the processes of producing anti-venom) to treat a bite from such animal is not forbidden.

And "Antivenoms are created by immunizing horses or sheep with the venom of a particular snake. Their blood serum (the watery part of the blood) is then processed, as it will contain antibodies capable of neutralizing the effects of venom. There are antivenoms that treat bites from a specific type of snake (monospecific antivenoms) and also those that treat bites from a number of snakes found in a particular geographic region (polyspecific antivenoms)."

This I said above does not in any way nullify what OP said, eating snake is haram!

There are grey areas that only sound scholars in Islamic matter can delve into!