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Al-Ma’idah 5: 3

Fear Allah: Surely Allah is severe in retribution.

(3) Forbidden to you are carrion, blood, the flesh of swine, the animal slaughtered in any name other than Allah’s, the animal which has either been strangled, killed by blows, has died of a fall, or by goring or devoured by a beast of prey – unless it be that which you yourselves might have slaughtered while it was still alive – and forbidden to you also that which was slaughter- ed at the altars.5 You are also forbidden to seek knowledge of your fate by divining arrows. All these are sinful acts. This day the unbelievers have fully despaired of your religion. Do not fear them; but fear Me.6 ▶

5 The word nusub signifies all the places consecrated for offerings to others than the One True God, regardless of whether they are images of wood, stone or anything else.

6 “This day” here does not signify a particular day or a specific date. It refers to that period of time when these verses were revealed. In our usage, too, expressions like “today” or “this day” often have the sense of the “present time”. “This day the unbelievers have fully despaired of your religion” refers to the fact that the Muslims’ religion had developed into a full-fledged system of life, reinforced by the authority and governmental power which it had acquired. The unbelievers who had hitherto resisted its establishment had now despaired of being able to destroy Islam and of forcing the believers to return to their former state of Ignorance. The believers, therefore, no longer needed to fear other humans: they should fear God alone. They were told that they would not be treated lightly

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