Surah 2. Al-Baqara, Ayah 173
| إِنَّمَا حَرَّمَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةَ وَالدَّمَ وَلَحْمَ الْخِنْزِيرِ وَمَا أُهِلَّ بِهِ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ ۖ فَمَنِ اضْطُرَّ غَيْرَ بَاغٍ وَلَا عَادٍ فَلَا إِثْمَ عَلَيْهِ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ |
| Transliteration | : | 'inna-maa h.arrama calay -kum al- maytah wa- ad- dam wa- lah.m al- khinzer wa- maa uhilla bi- -hi li- ghayr 'allaah fa- man id.t.urra ghayr baaghi(n) wa- laa caadi(n) fa- laa 'ithm calay -hi 'inna 'allaah ghafor rah.em |
| Pickthall | : | He hath forbidden you only carrion, and blood, and swineflesh, and that which hath been immolated to (the name of) any other than Allah. But he who is driven by necessity, neither craving nor transgressing, it is no sin for him. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. |
| Asad | : | He has forbidden to you only carrion, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and that over which any name other than God's has been invoked;139 but if one is driven by necessity - neither coveting it nor exceeding his immediate need - no sin shall be upon him: for, behold, God is much-forgiving, a dispenser of grace. |
| Malik | : | He has forbidden you to eat dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which any name other than Allah has been invoked; but if someone is compelled by absolute necessity, intending neither to sin nor to transgress, he shall incur no sin. Surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | He hath only forbidden you dead meat and blood and the flesh of swine and that on which any other name hath been invoked besides that of Allah but if one is forced by necessity without wilful disobedience nor transgressing due limits then is he guiltless. For Allah is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful. 173 174 |
Note - 139I.e., all that has been dedicated or offered in sacrifice
to an idol or a saint or a person considered to be
"divine". For a more comprehensive enumeration of the
forbidden kinds of flesh, see 5:3.
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Note - 173Dead meat: maitat: carrion; animal that dies of itself;
the original Arabic has a slightly wider meaning given to
it in Fiqh (Religious Law); anything that dies of itself
and is not expressly killed for food with the Takbir duly
pronounced on it. But there are exceptions, e.g., fish
and locusts are lawful, though they have not been made
specially halal with the Takbir. But even fish or
locusts as carrion would be obviously ruled out.
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Note - 174For prohibited foods, cf. also Q. v. 4-5; vi. 121,
138-146; etc. The teachers of Fiqh (Religious Law) work
out the details with great elaboration. My purpose is to
present general principles, not technical details.
Carrion or dead meat and blood as articles of food would
obviously cause disgust to any refined person. So would
swine's flesh where the swine live on offal. Where swine
are fed artifically on clean food, the objections remain:
(1) that they are filthy animals in other respects, and
the flesh of filthy animals taken as food affects the
eater; (2) that swine's flesh has more fat than
muscle-building material; and (3) that it is more liable
to disease than other kinds of meat; e.g., trichinosis,
characterised by hair-like worms in the muscular tissue.
As to food dedicated to idols or false gods, it is
obviously unseemly for the Children of Unity to partake
of it.
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I.e., all that has been dedicated or offered in sacrifice to an idol or a saint or a person considered to be "divine". For a more comprehensive enumeration of the forbidden kinds of flesh, see 5:3. |
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Dead meat: maitat: carrion; animal that dies of itself; the original Arabic has a slightly wider meaning given to it in Fiqh (Religious Law); anything that dies of itself and is not expressly killed for food with the Takbir duly pronounced on it. But there are exceptions, e.g., fish and locusts are lawful, though they have not been made specially halal with the Takbir. But even fish or locusts as carrion would be obviously ruled out. |
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For prohibited foods, cf. also Q. v. 4-5; vi. 121, 138-146; etc. The teachers of Fiqh (Religious Law) work out the details with great elaboration. My purpose is to present general principles, not technical details. Carrion or dead meat and blood as articles of food would obviously cause disgust to any refined person. So would swine's flesh where the swine live on offal. Where swine are fed artifically on clean food, the objections remain: (1) that they are filthy animals in other respects, and the flesh of filthy animals taken as food affects the eater; (2) that swine's flesh has more fat than muscle-building material; and (3) that it is more liable to disease than other kinds of meat; e.g., trichinosis, characterised by hair-like worms in the muscular tissue. As to food dedicated to idols or false gods, it is obviously unseemly for the Children of Unity to partake of it. |
