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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books An Enlightening Commentary into the Light of the Holy Qur'an vol. 5 Section 16: The Forbidden Food - the Vain Excuses The forbidden foods -the vain excuses of the disbelievers – Allah’s wrath can not be averted by the guilty ones.

"Say: 'I do not find in what has been revealed to me anything forbidden for an eater to eat except it be carrion, or blood poured forth, or the flesh of swine -for that is indeed abomination or a transgression, slain invoking (the name of) other than Allah, but whoever is forced (to eat it by necessity), not desiring nor transgressing, then surely your Lord is Forgiving, Merciful." To make the divine prohibitions clear from the innovations that pagans had asserted in the Divine creed, in this verse, the Prophet (S) is commanded to tell people explicitly that there is no forbidden food for anybody, irrespective of men and women, young and old, in what was revealed to him.

The verse says: "Say: 'I do not find in what has been revealed to me anything forbidden for an eater to eat ..." This law lies with some exceptions. The first of them is that it should not be carrion. The verse continues saying: "...except it be carrion..." And it should not be the blood that comes out of the animal's body. "....

or blood poured forth…" This blood is not the blood which remains inside the veins and capillary blood-vessels among its flesh that comes out from the animal's vessels after cutting them and pouring a great deal of blood from them. The third exception is as follows: ".... or the flesh of swine -for that is indeed abomination…." All of these abovementioned things are disagreeable in man's nature and are the source of kinds of pollutions that cause some different damages.

Then, The Qur'an points to he fourth kind of these exceptions, and says: ".... or a transgression, slain invoking (the name of) other than Allah...." From the point of ethical and spiritual views, this action is a sign of being aloof from Allah and from the school of theism both, Thus, there are assigned two kinds of Islamic conditions for lawful slaughtering of an animal.