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THE KORAN ON FOOD, ALMS AND
OTHER THINGS
CHAPTER 8
THE KORAN ON FOOD, ALMS AND OTHER THINGS
V/3:
Forbidden unto you (for food) are carrion
and blood and swine-flesh, and that which
bath been dedicated unto any other than
Allah, and the strangled, and the dead
through beating, and the dead through fall-
ing from a height, and that which bath
been killed by (the goring of) horns, and the
devoured of wild beasts, saving that which
ye make lawful (by the death stroke), and
that which bath been immolated unto idols.
And (forbidden is it) that ye swear by the
divining arrows. This is an abomination.
This day are those who disbelieve in des-
pair of (ever harming) your religion; so fear
them not, fear Me! This day have I perfect-
ed your religion for you and completed My
favor unto you, and have chosen for you as
religion AL ISLAM [1]. Whoso is forced by
hunger, not by will, to sin: (for him) lo!
Allah is Forgiving, Merciful [2].
IX/60:
The alms are only for the poor and the
needy, and those who collect them, and
those whose hearts are to be reconciled [3],
and to free the captives and the debtors,
and for the cause of Allah, and (for) the
wayfarers; a duty imposed by Allah. Allah
is Knower, Wise.
XXIX/8:
We have enjoined on man kindness to
parents; but if they strive to make thee
join with Me that of which thou hast no
knowledge, then obey them not. Unto Me
is your return and I shall tell you what ye
used to do [4].
IV/43:
O ye who believe! Draw not near unto your
prayer when ye are drunken, till ye know
that which ye utter, nor when ye are
polluted, save when journeying upon the
road, till ye have bathed. And if ye be ill,
or on a journey, or one of you cometh from
the closet, or ye have touched women [5] ,
and ye find not water, then go to high
clean soil and rub your faces and your
hands (therewith). Lo! Allah is Benign,
Forgiving.
Footnotes
1. AL ISLAM is surrender to Allah.
2. If forced by hunger a Moslem is allowed to eat food
which is normally forbidden.
3. 'Reconciled' here means 'conversion' to Islam.
4. In other words, 'do not obey your parents' if they are
non-Moslems.
5. N.J. Dawood translates 'touched women' as 'had inter-
course with woment in his Koran.
Note: It is not quite clear how a Moslem, who by definition
does not take intoxicating drinks, can get drunk.
'Touched women' or what N.J. Dawood calls 'had inter-
course with women' mean had sex with one's own
married women or slave-girls owned by the believer.
Intercourse with unwed women or women wedded to
other believers is forbidden. Kafir women are to be
treated as slave-girls. However, temporary marriages,
also called Muta' marriages, lasting for a few hours to a
few years and ending at a previously stipulated time,
are allowed in Islam.
Islam forbids prostitution (but this rule doesn't apply to Kafir
women). Kafir (non-muslim)
women can used as prostitutes.
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