Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Badat
Question:
My cats died recently. I want to know where they go after they die. Do they go straight to heaven?
Answer:
Thank you for your question. May Allah bless you with relief and comfort for your loss.
Based on the verses of the Qurʿan and prophetic reports, animals will be resurrected on the day of judgement, justice will be manifested for them, thereafter they will be made to dust. Refer to the below mentioned source texts:
“There is no creature moving on the earth, nor a bird flying on its two wings, but they are all communities like you. We have not missed anything in the Book. Then, to their Lord all of them shall be gathered.”
(Qurʿan 6:38)
“Allah will resurrect all the creation on the day of rising; animals, birds, cattle and everything. The justice of Allah will prevail even in favour of the hornless animal [who was attacked] against the horned animal. Allah will then instruct, “Become dust”. This is the very matter that is referred to in the words of Allah; “… the disbeliever will say [when they shall see animals being turned into soil], “O would that I had turned into dust.”
(Qurʿan 78:40) (Muṣannaf ʿAbd al Razzaq)
There are numerous narrations of the Prophet Muḥammad (peace and blessings upon him) suggesting that certain animals will also be made to reside in Paradise after the resurrection.
And Allah Knows Best.
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