[12] The Forbidden from Meat is harmful to bodies حُرِّمَتْ...

[12] The Forbidden from Meat is harmful to bodies حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةُ وَالدَّمُ وَلَحْمُ الْخِنْزِيرِ وَمَا أُهِلَّ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ بِهِ وَالْمُنْخَنِقَةُ وَالْمَوْقُوذَةُ وَالْمُتَرَدِّيَةُ وَالنَّطِيحَةُ وَمَا أَكَلَ السَّبُعُ إِلَّا مَا ذَكَّيْتُمْ وَمَا ذُبِحَ عَلَى النُّصُبِ وَأَنْ تَسْتَقْسِمُوا بِالْأَزْلَامِ ۚ ذَٰلِكُمْ فِسْقٌ ۗ الْيَوْمَ يَئِسَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْ دِينِكُمْ فَلَا تَخْشَوْهُمْ وَاخْشَوْنِ ۚ الْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَأَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِي وَرَضِيتُ لَكُمُ الْإِسْلَامَ دِينًا ۚ فَمَنِ اضْطُرَّ فِي مَخْمَصَةٍ غَيْرَ مُتَجَانِفٍ لِإِثْمٍ ۙ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ {3} Prohibited unto you is the dead, and the blood and meat of the pig, and whatever has been dedicated for other than Allah with, and the strangled, and the sick, and the fallen, and the gored, and what the predators have eaten (from), except what you have purified; and what is slaughtered upon the altars and that which you are apportioning with the arrows, that is a transgression.

Today have despaired, those who committed Kufr from your Religion, so do not fear them and fear Me. Today, I Perfected your Religion for you and Completed My Favour upon you, and I am Pleased with Al-Islam as a Religion for you.

But the one who is desperate during hunger without inclination to sin, then Allah is Forgiving, Merciful [5:3] العياشي: عن محمد بن عبد الله، عن بعض أصحابه قال: قلت لأبي عبد الله (عليه السلام): جعلت فداك، لم حرم الله الميتة و الدم و لحم الخنزير؟ Al Ayyashi, from Muhammad Bin Abdullah, from one of his companions who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah -asws , ‘May I be sacrificed for you -asws !

Why did Allah -azwj Prohibit the dead, and the blood and meat of the pig [5:3] ?’ فقال: «إن الله تبارك و تعالى لم يحرم ذلك على عباده و أحل لهم ما سواه من رغبة منه تبارك و تعالى فيما حرم عليهم، و لا زهد فيما أحل لهم، و لكنه خلق الخلق و علم ما يقوم به أبدانهم و ما يصلحهم So, he -asws said: ‘Allah -azwj Blessed and Exalted did not Prohibit that upon His -azwj servants, and Permit for them what is besides these due to a Desire from Him -azwj Blessed and Exalted with regards to what is Prohibited upon them, nor due to abstention regarding what He -azwj Permitted for them.

But He Created the creatures and Knows what their bodies would be standing with and what is correct for them.

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