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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books An Enlightening Commentary into the Light of the Holy Qur'an vol. 2 Section 21, Only lawful and clean food should be taken Injunction about the use of food-stuff -Blind following disallowed. Concealing of truth and corrupting the Word of God and bartering it for worldly gains amounts to the eating of Fire.

"Verily, he (Satan) enjoins you evil acts and indecency and that you should speak against Allah what you know not."*** One of the signs of a complete religion is that it considers the usage of the unlawful food-stuffs a Satanic deed (as the Qur'an says: "...intoxicants and games of chance...

are an abomination of Satan's work..." ) [^1], and the inappropriate avoidance of eating the lawful ones originated from the temptations of Satan, (as the Qur'an says: "...eat of what Allah has given you and do not follow the footsteps of Satan…" ) . [^2] Therefore, in the current verse, too, it says: "O' mankind!

eat of what is in the earth lawful and good; and do not follow the footsteps of Satan...." In some of the historical narrations it is cited that a few of the Arab tribes had unreasonably forbidden a part of their crops and their animals for themselves, where they used to sometimes attribute those prohibitions to Allah. Then, the above verse was revealed to dismiss that ambiguity. Islam pays also specific attention to the material life of people.

At the top of these things is the food necessities about which there are found tens of Qur'anic verses and hundreds of traditions in Islamic literature. One of the duties of prophets has been to define the lawful and unlawful edible materials and drinks beside the introduction of the advantages and disadvantages of each of them. This verse emphasizes that we have to consume from what is religiously lawful and pure / halal / on the earth: "O' mankind!