Stuffing a lion’s skin with grass to make it into a lion

Question

Question: In this age, in great houses they stuff a lion’s skin with grass, giving it a lion-like form, and keep it in the house for display. Is this right or not?

Answer

Making the form of a lion in this way by stuffing it with grass and the like, keeping it, and displaying it — all of this is not right.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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