Lawful And Pure Food

 

 

Lawful and good food (L-193)

يا أَيُّهَا النّاسُ كُلوا مِمّا فِي الأَرضِ حَلالًا طَيِّبًا وَلا تَتَّبِعوا خُطُواتِ الشَّيطانِ ۚ إِنَّهُ لَكُم عَدُوٌّ مُبينٌ168.

168.  Yaaa-‘ayyuhan-naasu  kuluu  mimmaa  fil-‘arzi  Halaalan-  tay- yibaa.  Wa  laa    tattabi-‘uu  khutuwaatish-Shay-taan.  ‘In-nahuu  lakum  ‘aduw-wum-mu-biin.

168.  O people! Eat of what is lawful and good on earth, and do not follow the footsteps of Satan. He is to you an open enemy.

In this verse, God addressed the entire human beings and declared the difference between lawful and unlawful, and prescribed compulsory two conditions for the eatables and drinkable things that what is lawful and what is unlawful. 

Applying two conditions by Islam in the food (lawful and pure) have produced a very great excellence. Due to these principles, every such thing, which is not pure and clean, is dangerous or harmful for human body and soul, or that has not gotten lawfully, for eating, drinking or use of it is forbidden.

The Messenger of God (ﷺ) took so much care for the pure, clean and lawful that those things, smell of which affects usually ill upon the health, declared odious and their use, before coming to the mosque, has been prohibited by him (ﷺ), so that, it might not have bad effect on the nature of the devout associates.

The Arabs had declared some things unlawful at their own; for instance; the animals were left free in the name of idols and likewise; some other kinds of food. And they began to use some forbidden things also like milk of a mother who suckles. Islam forbade from it. Accordingly, there is a Saying of the Prophet (ﷺ), “The person whose food is unlawful, clothes are unlawful and meal is also unlawful, how his prayer can be acceptable?”

God commanded that the people, who don’t care about lawful, pure and clean, they follow the Devil and the Devil is the worst enemy of the mankind. He will never be well-wisher of the mankind. https://youtu.be/jqBAtBEIK8s