Surah 5. Al-Maidah

In the name of ALLAH, the Benevolent, the Merciful

1. O you who keep faith! Fulfil your undertakings. The beast of cattle is made lawful to you (for food) except that which is announced to you (herein), game being unlawful when you are on pilgrimage. Lo! ALLAH ordains that which pleases Him.
2. O you who keep faith! Profane not ALLAH's monuments nor the Sacred Month nor the offerings nor the garlands, nor those repairing to the Sacred House, seeking the grace and pleasure of ALLAH. But when you have left the sacred territory, then go hunting (if you will). And let not your hatred of a folk who (once) stopped your going to the Inviolable Place of Worship seduce you to transgress; but help you one another to righteousness and pious duty. Help not one another to sin and transgression, but keep your duty to ALLAH. Lo! ALLAH is severe in punishment.
3. Forbidden to you (for food) are carrion and blood and swine flesh, and that which has been dedicated to any other than ALLAH, and the strangled, and the dead through beating, and the dead through falling from a height, and that which has been killed by (the goring of) horns, and the devoured of wild beasts, saving that which you make lawful (by the death stroke), and that which has been immolated to idols. And (forbidden is it) that you swear by the divining arrows. This is an abomination. This day are those who deny in despair of (ever harming) your religion; so fear them not, fear Me! This day have I perfected your religion for you and completed My favor to you, and have chosen for you as religion AL- ISLAM. Whoso is forced by hunger, not by will, to sin: (for him) lo! ALLAH is Forgiving, Merciful.
4. They ask you what is made lawful for them. Say : ( all ) good things are made lawful for you. And those beasts and birds of prey which you have trained as hounds are trained, you teach them that which ALLAH taught you; so eat of that which they catch for you and mention ALLAH's name upon it, and observe your duty to ALLAH. Lo! ALLAH is swift to take account.
5. This day are good things made lawful for you. The food of those who have received The Book is lawful for you, and your food is lawful for them. And so are the virtuous women of the faithful and the virtuous women of those who received The Book before you (lawful for you) when you give them their marriage portions and live with them in honor, not in fornication, nor taking them as secret concubines. Whoso denies the faith, his work is vain and he will be among the losers in the Hereafter.

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