Transliteration:( Innamaa harama 'alai kumul maitata waddama wa lahmal khinzeeri wa maaa uhilla lighairil laahi bihee famanid turra ghaira baaghinw wa laa 'aadin fa innal laaha Ghafoorur Raheem )
255. This is an extended counting i.e. the animals which are left in the name of the idols are not forbidden, but only these undermentioned animals are forbidden. This does not necessarily that dogs, etc. are not forbidden. Also, when the idolized cow and the water of the Ganges themselves are lawful, then why should the animal set aside on their name be forbidden?Â
From this we learn there is no need for a categorical Quranic statement to prove the legality of an object, but this is necessary to prove it unlawful. In other words, if there is no mention of a to be lawful or unlawful in the Holy QUR'AAN or Hadith Shareef, then such a thing is lawful.Â
Says Allah Almighty: "Say you; I find not in what has been revealed to me any meal forbidden" (S6:V145).
256. It should be remembered, that if an animal which is necessary to be slaughtered, dies without being slaughtered, it would become unlawful. It is not obligatory at all to slaughter things like the fish or locust. Hence they are not included in the dead! Likewise, the blood which flows is unlawful. Although liver and spleen, too, are blood since they are not free flowing, they become lawful.
257. Before only the flesh of the swine was consumed, hence it has been declared unlawful. However, every limb and part of it is absolutely forbidden for use, so much so that not even its hair can be put to any use. The mention of the flesh is incidental, not for evasion.
258. This means at the time of slaughtering name other than that of Allah Almighty was invoked, even if Allah's name was taken with it, or not at all.
259. Helplessness is of two types. One is when a person is dying of hunger and there is nothing lawful available to eat besides edibles which are unlawful. The other is severe illness for which a pious Muslim specialist doctor says your life can only be saved by consuming a particular forbidden thing.
In both these instances it is permissible to consume only that quantity of the forbidden thing which would save your life. From this we learn that anything which would be regarded permissible out of necessity, would be lawful for that circumstance only, and in that quantity only. Anything in excess would be unlawful. If just one piece of meat of the swine is sufficient to save the life, the second piece would be forbidden to eat. From this numerous jurisdical issues can be deduced.
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The tafsir of Surah An-Nahl verse 115 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Nahl ayat 114 which provides the complete commentary from verse 114 through 117.
(16:115) Allah has forbidden you only carrion, and blood, and the flesh of swine; also any animal over which the name of any other than Allah has been pronounced. But whoever eats of them under compelling necessity – neither desiring it nor exceeding the limit of absolute necessity – surely for such action Allah is Much Forgiving, Most Merciful.[115]
115. Please refer also to (Surah Al-Baqarah, Ayat 173), (Surah Al-Maidah, Ayat 3) and (Surah Al-Anaam, Ayat 145).
[717]- Those not slaughtered or hunted expressly for food.
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