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CAPTIVE Allah has spread the earth out as a carpet for you.
Then you are the people who are killing one an- (71:19)
other and expelling a group among you from Have We not made the earth a flat carpet? (78:6)
their homes, ganging up against them in wrong-
doing and enmity. Yet if they are brought to you CARRION
as captives, you ransom them, when it was for- He has only forbidden you carrion, blood and
bidden for you to expel them in the first place! pork and what has been consecrated to other
Do you, then, believe in one part of the Book and than Allah. But anyone who is forced to eat
reject the other? What repayment will there be it–without desiring it or going to excess in
for any of you who do that except disgrace in this it–commits no crime. Allah is Ever-Forgiving,
world? And on the Day of Rising, they will be re- Most Merciful. (2:173)
turned to the harshest of punishments. Allah is Forbidden for you are carrion, blood and pork,
not unaware of what you do. (2:85) and what has been consecrated to other than
It is not fitting for a Prophet to take captives until Allah, and animals which have been strangled,
he has thoroughly subdued the land. You desire and animals which have been killed by a blow,
the goods of this world, whereas Allah desires and animals which have fallen to their death,
the hereafter. Allah is Almighty, All-Wise. (8:67) and animals which have been gored, and ani-
They (the believers) give food, despite their love mals which wild beasts have eaten–except those
for it, to the poor and orphans and captives. you are able to slaughter properly–and animals
(76:8) which have been sacrificed on altars, and decid-
ing things by means of divining arrows–that is
CARAVAN deviance. Today those who disbelieve have de-
One of them said, ‘Do not take Yusuf’s life but spaired of overcoming your religion. So do not
throw him to the bottom of the well, so that some be afraid of them but be afraid of Me. Today I
(caravan of) travellers may discover him, if this is have perfected your religion for you and com-
something that you have to do.’ (12:10) pleted My blessing upon you and I am pleased
Then when he had supplied them with their with Islam as a religion for you. But if anyone is
needs, he put the goblet in his brother’s bag. A forced by hunger, not intending any wrongdoing,
herald called out, ‘Caravan! You are thieves!’ Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (5:3)
(12:70) Say: ‘I do not find, in what has been revealed to
And when the caravan went on its way, their fa- me, any food it is forbidden to eat except for car-
ther said, ‘I can smell Yusuf’s scent! You probably rion, flowing blood, and pork–for that is un-
think I have become senile.’ (12:94) clean–or some deviance consecrated to other
In acknowledgment of the established tradition than Allah. But if anyone is forced to eat it, with-
of Quraysh, their tradition of the winter and sum- out desiring to or going to excess in it, your Lord
mer caravans. (106:1-2) is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.’ (6:145)

CARPET CARVING OUT
Allah has made your houses places of rest for you (Salih said, ‘My people,) remember when He ap-
and made houses for you out of cattle hides pointed you successors to ‘Ad and settled you in
which are light for you to carry both when you the land. You built palaces on its plains and
are travelling and when you are staying in one carved out houses from the mountains.
place. And from their wool and fur and hair you Remember Allah’s blessings and do not go about
obtain clothing and carpets and household uten- the earth, corrupting it.’ (7:74)
sils for a time. (16:80) They (The people of al-Hijr) carved out houses
And the earth–We spread it like a carpet and how from the mountains, feeling safe. (15:82)
well We smoothed it out! (51:48) He (Ibrahim) said, ‘Do you worship something
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