Eternal Words 6-Sura Al-'An'am Verse145
Verse145
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Section 18
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.
(145) قُلْ لا أَجِدُ فِي ما أُوحِيَ إِلَيَّ مُحَرَّماً عَلى طاعِمٍ يَطْعَمُهُ إِلاَّ أَنْ يَكُونَ مَيْتَةً أَوْ دَماً
مَسْفُوحاً أَوْ لَحْمَ خِنزِيرٍ فَإِنَّهُ رِجْسٌ أَوْ فِسْقاً أُهِلَّ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ بِهِ فَمَنِ اضْطُرَّ غَيْرَ باغٍ وَ لا
عادٍ فَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ
145. " 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."
Commentary :
To make the divine prohibitions clear from the innovations that pagans had asserted in the Divine creed, in this verse, the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) 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 which 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 which cause some different damages.
Then, The Qur'an points to the fourth kind of these exceptions, and says :
"... or a tranagression, 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. Some of these conditions, such as cutting the four main blood-vessels of the animal and pouring forth its blood, have the aspect of hygiene, while some others, such as setting the animal toward the direction of the Ka'bah, reciting the holy phrase : 'Bis millah', and it being slaughtered by a Muslim, have spiritual aspects.
At the end of the verse, the Qur'an has made an exception, from the usage of these prohibited meats, those who are forced to eat them by necessity or because of lack of any other food in order to protect their lives, but not for pleasure nor more than the limits nor with the purpose of counting the divine unlawful things as lawful. It says :
"... but whoever is forced (to eat it by necessity), not desiring nor transgressing, then surely your Lord is Forgiving, Merciful."
In fact, these two conditions are for the sake that some people do not take this constrained circumstance as excuse for their transgression to the limits of the laws of Allah.
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