Explanation: “Forbidden to you are dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine, and that which is dedicated to other than Allah”

The Shaykh : Then He said: and He did not say “We have forbidden” because He said in the first part “We have made lawful for you,” so due to the coherence of the context, He used the passive verb. It is well known that the One who forbids is Allah (Mighty and Majestic). The scholars said that a dead animal is what dies without a lawful ritual slaughter. This includes what dies of natural causes and what dies by a non-lawful slaughter. So if a person strangles an animal and it dies, it is forbidden. Why? Because it was not slaughtered with a lawful ritual slaughter. And if an animal becomes ill and dies, it is not lawful because it was not slaughtered. So this is the comprehensive and exclusive criterion for a dead animal: what is a dead animal? What dies without a lawful ritual slaughter. This is the dead animal. Blood is well known, but what is meant is what comes out of the animal before its death, and that is forbidden. As for what remains after the lawful ritual slaughter, it is lawful. So what comes out of the animal while it is alive, from the blood, is forbidden. And in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, if one of their travelers became hungry, he would cut a vein in his camel and drink the blood to sustain himself, so Allah (Mighty and Majestic) forbade that for His servants. And the flesh of swine: the pig is a well-known foul animal, lacking jealousy, and harmful to health, its flesh and its fat as well. And He used the word “flesh” because that is what is most often intended, otherwise it is all forbidden: its flesh, its fat, its intestines, its blood, and everything from it. This means naming other than Allah upon it, by saying “In the name of Christ” or “In the name of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)” or “In the name of Jibril” or “In the name of Mika'il” or “In the name of so-and-so” or “In the name of so-and-so.” This is forbidden because only Allah (Mighty and Majestic) is to be named upon the slaughtered animals, He who created them and made it lawful for us to slaughter them for our benefit. He is the One who is named. As for others, they do not deserve to be named in this regard. Neither did they create the animal, nor did they permit us to do this with it for our benefit. So they do not deserve to be named upon this slaughtered animal except Allah (Mighty and Majestic). And the apparent meaning of the noble verse is that there is no difference between mentioning the name of other than Allah along with the name of Allah, or alone. So if he says “In the name of Allah and in the name of the Messenger,” it is forbidden. And if he says “In the name of the Messenger” only, it is also forbidden.