Islam Guidance

verse94

Section 13
Security of the Ka'bah Inviolable
Hunting during pilgrimage period, prohibited - the Inviolable Security of Ka'bah declared.

(94) يا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَيَبْلُوَنَّكُمُ اللَّهُ بِشَيْ‏ءٍ مِنَ الصَّيْدِ تَنالُهُ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَ رِماحُكُمْ لِيَعْلَمَ اللَّهُ

مَنْ يَخافُهُ بِالْغَيْبِ فَمَنِ اعْتَدى‏ بَعْدَ ذلِكَ فَلَهُ عَذابٌ أَلِيمٌ

94. " O' you who have Faith! Allah will surely try you with something of the game which your hands and your spears can reach, so that Allah may ascertain who fears Him in secret. So whoever transgresses after that for him there is a painful punishment."

Commentary :
During the time when a pilgrim to Mecca is in pilgrim garment and is performing the pilgrimage rites, the one has not the right of hunting. During the same time, occasionally it happens that a hunt approaches a person so nigh that he can catch it by a simple jump, but the trial of Allah is in this fact that we should not touch the hunt. So, if we hunt it, the punishment of Allah includes us.
Hunting itself brings forth no painful chastisement, but chastisement is for the breaking law. In the land where Abraham overlooked Ishmael, you would overlook the hunts either.
The verse says:
" O' you who have Faith! Allah will surely try you with something of the game which your hands and your spears can reach, so that Allah may ascertain who fears Him in secret. So whoever transgresses after that for him there is a painful punishment."
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