1 The Virtues of Surah Al-Ma'idah; When It was Revealed Surah to ...

Forbidden to you (for food) are:
• Al-Maytah (the dead animals),
• blood,
• the flesh of swine, and
• what has been slaughtered as a sacrifice
for others than Allah, and
• that which has been killed by strangling, or
by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or
by the goring of horns - and
• that which has been (partly) eaten by a
wild animal. (5:3),
for although the animals mentioned in this Ayah
are types of permissible cattle (except for swine),
they become impermissible under the
circumstances that the Ayah (5:3) specifies.
إِلا َّ مَا ذَآ َّيْتُمْ‏ وَمَا ذُبِحَ‏ afterwards, This is why Allah said
(Unless you are able to slaughter it عَلَى الن ُّصُبِ‏
(before its death), (5:3) and that which is
sacrificed (slaughtered) on An-Nusub (stone
altars)) as the latter type is not permissible,
because it can no longer be slaughtered properly.
أُحِل َّتْ‏ لَكُم بَهِيمَةُ‏ الأَنْعَامِ‏ إِلا َّ مَا statement, Hence, Allah's
(Lawful to you are all the beasts of cattle يُتْلَى عَلَيْكُمْ‏
except that which will be announced to you),
means,
Allah said,
except the specific circumstances that
prohibit some of these which will be
announced to you.
... غَيْرَ‏ مُحِل ِّي الص َّيْدِ‏ وَأَنتُمْ‏ حُرُمٌ‏
game (also) being unlawful when you assume Ihram.
Some scholars said that;
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