Lesson
# 595 From Holy Qur’aan
Carrion,
Blood and Swine-flesh are forbidden
Surah Maaa-‘idah (the
Table Spread) – Chapter – 5)
Verse
– 3a of 120, Section – 1 of 16 (Part One-Fourth of–6)
BisMIllaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim
In the name of Allaah,
the Beneficent, the Merciful
Forbidden unto you (for food) are carrion and
blood and swine-flesh, and that which hath been dedicated unto any other than
Allaah, and the strangled, and the dead through beating, and the dead through
falling from a height, and that which hath been killed by (the goring of)
horns, and the devoured of wild beasts, saving that which ye have slaughtered
still alive, and that which hath been immolated unto idols. And (forbidden is
it) that ye apportion by the divining arrows. This is an abomination.
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Hurri-mat ‘alaykumul-maytatu waddamu
wa lahmul-khin-ziiri wa
maaa ‘uhilla li-gayrIllaahi bihii
wal-mun-khaniqatu
wal-maw-quuzatu walmuta-raddi-yatu wannatii-hatu wa
maaa ‘akalas-sabu-‘u ‘illaa
maa zakkaytum; wa
maa zubiha ‘alan-nusubi wa ‘an tastaq-simuu bil-‘azlaam. Zaalikum
fisq.
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Lesson
Hurri-mat – (forbidden), its origin is tah-riim, which has been derived from Haraam – means – the thing, from which it is necessary to be saved,
that should not be used. The aim of “to be saved” is “due to respect and honor”
also as well as “not to be used”. Here it signifies that the things which have
been forbidden (for food) in this verse, those should not be eaten/taken. Those
things are:
1. Carrion – (the dead
animal, carcass and dead putrefying flesh), that beast, which has died
automatically, not by slaughtering still alive. Flesh of that animal is
forbidden because its blood has dried into its body.
2. Blood – which flew from
the body, whether that has come out after slaughtering or due to any other
reason, that blood is impure and eating it is forbidden. Moreover, eating the
carrion is even forbidden due to the reason that the blood of that dead body is
absorbed in its body. It is compulsory to cause to flow the blood of animal
being slaughtered, so that the flesh may be purified and lawful.
3. Swine-flesh is impure
and it is forbidden (for food).
4. That animal, which has been dedicated unto any other than Allaah Almighty. Whether this animal has
been slaughtered and its blood has been caused to flow, even then it is
forbidden to be used.
5. The animal like Mun-khaniqatun, maw-quuzatun, muta-raddi-yatun and natii-hatun have been forbidden. These
are the animals, which have not been slaughtered but died due to suffocating, through beating, falling from a height and which
have been killed by the goring of any other beast’s horns. These all are
included in the dead. But because there was a common custom in the Arab to eat
them, therefore those have been described by name separately.
6. The animal, devoured of wild beasts is also
forbidden for food. However, if it was still alive and you slaughtered, then it
is legal to use it for food.
7. That animal, which has been sacrificed at the
locality of idols, although it has been slaughtered in the name of Allaah Almighty, even then, it is
forbidden. The locality of the idols is the place, where any self-made idol has
been standing and the people worship it. It was general tradition in the Arab
to sacrifice the animal at such place and used to be taken as rendering the
idol its due. It is part of above-mentioned serial -4. However, sacrificing it
was a specific method, therefore, it has been described separately.
8. At the end, a particular form of gambling has
been forbidden, which was current in the Arab. That is, “Thoughtless youth
people of the Arab used to catch and slaughter the camel of any person, then
they used to make pieces of its meat and keep them separately. After that, they
used to distribute those portions of meat through arrows. Any figure was
written on every arrow, but some arrows were kept without numbers. Every person
used to go and bring one arrow, and then he was given portion of meat according
to the number of arrow. Those persons, who used to bring numberless arrow, they
were not given any piece of meat. Moreover, they were bound to pay the price of
the animal too”.
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