The Holy Quran 6:138 — Surah Al-An'am

Arabic text

وَقَالُوا۟ هَـٰذِهِۦٓ أَنْعَـٰمٌ وَحَرْثٌ حِجْرٌ لَّا يَطْعَمُهَآ إِلَّا مَن نَّشَآءُ بِزَعْمِهِمْ وَأَنْعَـٰمٌ حُرِّمَتْ ظُهُورُهَا وَأَنْعَـٰمٌ لَّا يَذْكُرُونَ ٱسْمَ ٱللَّهِ عَلَيْهَا ٱفْتِرَآءً عَلَيْهِ ۚ سَيَجْزِيهِم بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْتَرُونَ

Translation

They (the Mushrikeen of Makkah) say of their assumption (without any warrant from Allaah), "These are livestock and crops that are prohibited. Only those people whom we approve of may eat from it." And (there are also those) livestock whose backs have been forbidden (by them when they declared that none may use these animals for riding or for carrying loads) and those upon whom they do not take Allaah's name (when slaughtering them); (all this they do) as a slander against Allaah (because they say that Allaah had commanded it). He will soon punish them (in the Aakhirah) for what (lies) they fabricate.

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

More ignorant beliefs: for example, [that it] may be eaten by men but not by women, or may be eaten only by the priests who were the attendants of the idol temples. They had imposed such restrictions, by their own fancy, on certain livestock and crops that were dedicated to the idols.

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