Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: {Indeed, He has forbidden to you carrion...}

Question:
Allah the Exalted said: [Surat al-Baqarah: 173]. Explain this noble verse to me, especially the word (blood). Did people eat blood before the revelation of this verse?

Answer:
Yes, the Arabs used to eat blood and drink blood. When they needed to, they would hunt camels and drink their blood. So Allah forbade them from doing this if it was flowing, which is what is poured out from the veins and other vessels. As for congealed blood, like the liver, there is no harm if a person eats the liver, because it is not flowing blood, so there is no blame in that. The people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance used to eat blood; they would bleed animals and drink from their blood. So Allah forbade them from that, and He the Exalted clarified in the other verse [Surat al-An'am: 145], meaning: flowing. This is the aspect of the prohibition of blood; it is the flowing kind, because it was a custom of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, and because there is harm in it for the one who drinks it.
is well known. is well known. This sacrificial animal is forbidden because it was slaughtered for other than Allah. So if a person is compelled to eat carrion or anything else, he is allowed to eat from that, not being oppressive or transgressing against his Muslim brothers. The transgressor and the aggressor were explained by types, among which are: the rebels who rise up against the ruler, so they are the oppressors by that. And among them is the one who transgresses by eating from carrion without dire necessity or pressing need, so he is not called one who is compelled.
Some of the scholars of knowledge mentioned in this another matter, which is that one travels a journey that is considered a sin and is also considered a transgression, so he has no dispensation. But the closest view—and Allah knows best—is that it is restricted to his eating not being oppressive or aggressive, but rather out of dire necessity, eating out of dire necessity... he finds nothing. As for if he transgresses by eating without dire necessity, or consumes carrion without dire necessity, he is called a transgressor and an aggressor who has transgressed the limits of Allah . As for if he is compelled to that because of a journey of sin, or something similar to that which may lead him to the need and dire necessity of carrion, he is included in the noble verse, because the verse is general .
So the transgressor is the one who transgresses the limits and rebels against people, and the aggressor is the one who likewise transgresses against people, either by eating without dire necessity, or by rebelling against people and transgressing against them without right, without a legal cause. This is the one from whom these things are prohibited. He is only considered compelled if he finds nothing, to the point that he fears for his life, so he eats from carrion or from the pig, or what was slaughtered for other than Allah, or from blood, out of the dire necessity in which he fell. Yes, we ask Allah for well-being. Yes.

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