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In the Name of Allah,
The All-Merciful and Most Merciful

The Easiness of Allah’s Commands and

Recommendations Is a Mercy to Believers

In all conditions and circumstances, Allah’s decrees are
characterized by being easy to practice. For example, Allah
gives all people many blessings to supply their daily needs: col-

orful fruits, various foods to eat and drink, and everything else
that we need - all of them serve human beings. In the Qur’an,
Allah tells us that He has made all clean foods permissible.
“They will ask you what is lawful for them. Say: “All good
things are lawful for you.” (Surat al-Ma’ida, 4) And those
foods that Allah has forbidden (e.g., carrion, blood, and pork)
are unclean and harmful. Allah reveals in one of the verses:

Say: “I do not find, in what has been revealed to me, any
food that is forbidden to eat except carrion, flowing blood,
and pork – for that is unclean – or some abomination con-
secrated to other than Allah. But if anyone is forced to eat
it, without desiring to or going to excess in it, your Lord is
Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.” (Surat al-An’am, 145)

In this verse, the word unclean is very important, because
pork really has some qualities that are harmful to the human
body. The prohibition of harmful food is a mercy meant to
make things easy for people and protect them. And a person is
responsible for doing as Allah commands. When Allah speaks
of forbidden food, He explains how people are to behave in any
given situation. In this way, they know what to do when con-
fronted with unexpected situations. Some of the verses about
this subject is as follows:

So eat from what Allah has provided for you, lawful and

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