Do not eat from that over which Allah’s name has not been mentioned, for that is certainly defiant disobedience. The devils inspire their allies to argue with you. If you obey them, you would indeed be associating partners with Allah.
Is someone who was dead and We gave them life, and made for them a light by which they walk among people, like someone trapped in darkness from which they cannot emerge? In this way, what those who reject faith have been doing is made appealing to them.
When a sign comes to them, they say, “We will never believe until we are given something like what Allah’s messengers were given.” Allah knows best where to place His message. Those who commit crimes will be struck with humiliation before Allah and severe punishment because of their scheming.
Whoever Allah wills to guide, He opens their heart to submission to Him. And whoever He wills to let go astray, He makes their chest tight and constricted, as though they were climbing into the sky. In this way Allah places defilement upon those who do not believe.
On the Day He gathers them all together, He will say, “Company of jinn, you have taken advantage of many humans.” Their allies among humans will say, “Our Lord, we benefited from one another, and we have now reached the term You appointed for us.” He will say, “The Fire is your home, remaining there, except as Allah wills.” Your Lord is All-Wise, All-Knowing.
“Company of jinn and humans, did messengers from among you not come to you, reciting My signs to you and warning you about meeting this Day of yours?” They will say, “We testify against ourselves.” The life of this world deceived them, and they will testify against themselves that they had rejected faith.
Your Lord is the Self-Sufficient, the Lord of mercy. If He wills, He can remove you and replace you afterward with whomever He wills, just as He brought you into being from the descendants of other people.
Say, “My people, continue acting according to your position, and I too will act. You will soon know who will have the good outcome in the end.” The wrongdoers will not succeed.
They assign to Allah a share of the crops and livestock He created, saying, according to their claim, “This is for Allah, and this is for our partners.” But what is for their partners does not reach Allah, while what is for Allah reaches their partners. How terrible is their judgment!
In the same way, their partners made the killing of their children seem appealing to many of those who associate partners with Allah, leading them to ruin and confusing their religion for them. Had Allah willed, they would not have done so. So leave them and what they invent.
They say, “These livestock and crops are restricted; no one may eat them except those we allow,” according to their claim. And there are livestock whose backs they declare forbidden to ride, and livestock over which they do not mention Allah’s name, falsely attributing all this to Him. He will repay them for what they used to invent.
They also say, “What is in the wombs of these livestock is reserved for our men and forbidden to our wives. But if it is stillborn, they all share in it.” He will repay them for what they falsely attribute to Him. He is All-Wise, All-Knowing.
Lost indeed are those who kill their children foolishly and without knowledge, and forbid what Allah has provided for them, inventing lies about Allah. They have gone astray and were not rightly guided.
He is the One who produces gardens, both cultivated and wild, date palms, crops of different kinds, olives, and pomegranates, similar yet different. Eat from their fruit when they bear fruit, and give what is due on the day of harvest. Do not be wasteful. He does not love those who are wasteful.
And among livestock are animals for carrying loads and others close to the ground. Eat from what Allah has provided for you, and do not follow Satan’s footsteps. He is clearly your enemy.
There are eight animals in pairs: two from sheep and two from goats. Say, “Has He forbidden the two males, the two females, or what the wombs of the two females contain? Tell me with knowledge, if you are truthful.”
And two from camels and two from cattle. Say, “Has He forbidden the two males, the two females, or what the wombs of the two females contain? Or were you present when Allah instructed you to do this?” Who does greater wrong than someone who invents a lie about Allah to mislead people without knowledge? Allah does not guide wrongdoing people.