a:19:{s:8:"theTitle";s:33:"Showing Kindness to All Creatures";s:12:"thePermalink";s:66:"https://www.islamicity.org/4738/showing-kindness-to-all-creatures/";s:13:"theAuthorName";s:12:"Shazia Ahmad";s:12:"theThumbnail";s:85:"https://www.islamicity.org/global/images/photo/IC-Articles/girlswithdog__1024x654.JPG";s:6:"isWhat";s:7:"article";s:7:"theIcon";s:0:"";s:11:"theCategory";s:44:"cannot-retrieve-category-see-cell-part-1.php";s:6:"theTag";s:23:"animals|/topics/animals";s:7:"theDate";s:11:"May 21 2012";s:11:"theDate_ORG";s:37:"May 16, 2012 {wpcf-soft-date engaged}";s:9:"theAuthor";s:29:"Shazia Ahmad|/by/shazia-ahmad";s:5:"theID";i:4738;s:14:"theReadingTime";s:7:"10 min.";s:10:"theExcerpt";s:529:"The historic Masjid al-Azhar in Cairo offers a number of classes and lectures to the public in the rooms that surround its famous courtyard. Along with the usual human attendees, it is also common to see cats seeking to enter through the mosque's open doors and make their way inside. In this lecture on hadith by Sh. Usama Elsayed, a cat enters and makes himself comfortable in his class, prompting him to pause from the actual class material and share some anecdotes and lessons on showing kindness to cats and other animals.";s:12:"theTitle_ORG";s:33:"Showing Kindness to All Creatures";s:25:"processRelatedFacetsTitle";s:0:"";s:15:"whereItCameFrom";s:77:"_blp_taxonomy_archives.php & zone12 & tax-query & mostrecent on post_tag=cats";s:8:"theFacet";s:0:"";s:8:"theEmbed";s:0:"";}