So when is (eating) the dead Permissible for us?

So when is (eating) the dead Permissible for us?’ He – saww said: ‘For as long as you have not had your breakfast, or your dinner, or provisions of vegetables, then you can occupy with this’. قال عبد العظيم: فقلت له: يا بن رسول الله، فما معنى قوله عز و جل: فَمَنِ اضْطُرَّ غَيْرَ باغٍ وَ لا عادٍ؟ Abdul Azeem said, ‘So I said to him – asws , ‘O son – asws of Rasool-Allah – saww !

So what is the Meaning of the Words of the Mighty and Majestic: But the one who is desperate, without coveting nor transgressing [2:173] ?’ قال: «العادي: السارق، و الباغي: الذي يبغي الصيد بطرا و لهوا لا ليعود به على عياله، و ليس لهما أن يأكلا الميتة إذا اضطرا، هي حرام عليهما في حال الاضطرار كما هي حرام عليهما في حال الاختيار، و ليس لهما أن يقصرا في صوم و لا صلاة في سفر».

He – asws said: ‘The transgressor is the thief, and the coveting is the one who seeks the prey out of pleasure and sport, not returning with it to his dependants, and it isn’t for these two that they can eat the dead when they are desperate. It is Prohibited unto them during the state of desperation just as it is Prohibited unto them during the state of choice, and it isn’t for them that they can shorten ( Salat ) during Fasting nor Salat during travel’.

He – asws said: ‘The strangled is that which is strangled by suffocating it until it dies; and the sick is what which falls sick and its illness overcomes it until there is no movement in it; and the fallen is that which is thrown from a high place to a low, or thrown from a mountain, or into a well, so it dies; and the gored is which is gored by a another beast, so it dies; and what the predators have eaten from, so it dies, and what is slaughtered upon the altars, upon a rock or an idol, except what comes across its (Islamic) slaughter, so it is slaughtered’.