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Al-Ma’idah 5: 101–3

even though the abundance of the bad things might make you pleased with them.49 People of understanding, beware of disobeying Allah; maybe you will attain true success.”

(101) Believers! Do not ask of the things which, if made manifest to you, would vex you; for,50 if you should ask about them while the Qur’an is being revealed, they will be made manifest to you. Allah has pardoned whatever happened in the past. He is All-Forgiving, All-Forbearing. (102) Indeed some people before you had asked such questions and in consequence fell into unbelief.

(103) Allah has neither appointed (cattle consecrated to idols such as) Bahirah, Sa’ibah ▶

49 This verse enunciates a standard of evaluation and judgement quite distinct from the standards employed by superficial people. For the latter, a hundred dollars would be worth more than five dollars, since the figure hundred is more than five. But according to this verse, if those hundred dollars have been earned in a manner entailing the disobedience of God, the entire amount becomes unclean. If, on the contrary, a man earns five dollars while obeying God then this amount is clean; and anything which is unclean, whatever its quantity, cannot be worth that which is clean.

50 People used to ask the Prophet (peace be on him) many questions which were of no practical relevance to either religious or day-to-day affairs. Hence they were given this directive.

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