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107 The Cattle 6:148
follow in Satan’s footsteps, for someone other than God has
he is a declared enemy of yours. been invoked.’ But if anyone is
143 God has created four kinds of forced by necessity, being neither
livestock of either sex: two of disobedient nor exceeding the
sheep and two of goats. Ask limit, then surely your Lord is
them, ‘Is it the two males He has most forgiving and merciful.
forbidden or the two females or 146 We forbade the Jews all
what the wombs of the two animals with claws and the fat of
females contain? Tell me on the sheep [and goats] and oxen,
basis of knowledge, if you are except what is on their backs and
truthful.’ in their intestines and what
144 Again, of the camels there adheres to their bones. That is
are two, and of the oxen two. the penalty We imposed on them
Ask them, ‘Is it the two males He for their disobedience. And We
has forbidden, or the two females assuredly are true to Our word.
or what the wombs of the two 147 So, if they accuse you of
females contain? Were you lying, say, ‘The mercy of your
present when God enjoined this Lord is all-encompassing. His
on you?’ Who is more unjust punishment cannot be averted
than one who, without from sinful men.’ 148 Those who
knowledge, fabricates a lie associate partners with God will
against God, so that he may lead surely say, ‘Had God pleased,
people astray without neither we nor our fathers would
knowledge? Surely, God does have served other gods besides
not guide the wrongdoers. 145 Say Him; nor would we have made
[O Prophet], ‘In all that has been anything unlawful.’ Likewise
revealed to me, I do not find a those who lived before them
ban on anything to eat, except argued falsely until they came to
for carrion, flowing blood and taste Our punishment! Say, ‘Have
pork, all these being unclean or you any knowledge? If so,
profane, on which the name of produce it before us. You follow