KILLINGS ANTS WITH POWDER

If the ant is stinging, then there is no problem in killing it and if it is not stinging, then killing it is Makruh (Undesirable).&nbsp;&nbsp;As given in <span style="color: #993300"><b>(Fatawa A'alamgiri, Vol.&nbsp;&nbsp;5, Pg. No: 361)<br /> </b></span><br /> The 'Ulama are in difference of opinion on this.&nbsp;&nbsp;The preferred opinion is that if the ants are not stinging, then killing it is Makruh and they are in agreement that it is Makruh to put ants in water.<br /> <br /> Killing them without a reason is that the ants perform Tasbeeh of Allah Ta'ala.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> &nbsp;There is a (<span style="color: #993300"><b>Hadith in Zujajatul Masabeeh, Vol.&nbsp;&nbsp;3, Pg. No:&nbsp;&nbsp;319)<br /> </b></span><br /> <span style="color: #ff0000"><b>Translation of Hadith:</b></span>&nbsp;&nbsp;It has been narrated on the authority of Hadhrat Abu Hurairah (May Allah be well pleased with him) that the <b>Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)</b> said: An ant stung a Prophet.&nbsp;&nbsp;He ordered that the ants should be killed.&nbsp;&nbsp;The colony of those ants was burned.&nbsp;&nbsp;Allah Ta'ala sent him a Wahi (revelation): Only 1 ant had stung you, but you burned such an Ummah among the Ummahs, which used to perform Tasbeeh of Allah Ta'ala.<br />