Documents of the Right Word

original Torah itself. Jews defiled, changed many parts of that
Torah. The fifteenth âyat of Mâida sûra, which purports, “They
changed the words in the Book of Allah, that is, in the Torah,”
informs with this fact. The seventy-fifth âyat of Baqara sûra
purports, “A group of Jews would hear the Torah. After
understanding the commandments and prohibitions in it, they
would change them.”
A hadîth-i-sherîf, which is reported by Tabarânî and written in
Kunûz, states, “Israelites followed a religious book they
themselves wrote. They deserted the Torah of Mûsâ ‘alaihissalâm’.”
This hadîth-i-sherîf informs that the existing books
named Talmud, Mishna and Gemara, which Jews have been
keeping in the name of Torah, are not the Book of Mûsâ ‘alaihissalâm’.
What animals are edible and which ones should not be eaten?
Muslims learn this from Qur’ân al-kerîm and hadîth-i-sherîfs. Jews
and heretics, however, look it up in the existing copies of the
interpolated Torah. The Islamic religion has prohibited the
consumption of carrion, liquid blood, pork, meat from beasts that
hunt their preys with their canine teeth or paws (or talons), and
insects. Others are halâl. If an animal that is halâl to eat is killed in
the name of someone other that Allâhu ta’âlâ or by an unbeliever
who does not believe in any heavenly Book, it becomes harâm to
eat it.
The hundred and forty-fifth âyat of An’âm sûra purports, “Say:
things that are forbidden through the Qur’ân to eat are carrion and
liquid blood and the foul pork and animals killed in any name
except that of Allah.” This âyat-i-kerîma informs that four things
are harâm. And six more harâms were reported by our master the
Prophet. It is narrated by Abdullah ibni Abbâs that the Messenger
of Allah prohibited beasts of prey that have canine teeth and birds
of prey that hunt with their talons. The liquid (running) blood
mentioned in the âyat-i-kerîma is the blood running out of the
veins of a living or newly butchered animal. It is halâl to eat meat
with blood in it, such as a liver or a spleen.
Then, it is halâl to eat mutton, beef and rabbit meat even when
they have blood in them. It would be wrong to say that a rabbit is
wholely blood. After the blood is gone, the rabbit is cooked or
roasted and then eaten. It has a delicious flavour. As a matter of
fact, our master, the Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ alaihi wa sallam’,
had his As-hâb eat rabbit meat.
The hundred and forty-sixth âyat of An’âm sûra purports, “We
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