The Cattle
6. Al-'Anʿām
الأنعام
Page #146
6:138
وَقَالُوا
هَذِهِ
أَنْعَامٌ
وَحَرْثٌ
حِجْرٌ
لَّا
يَطْعَمُهَا
إِلَّا
مَن
نَّشَاءُ
بِزَعْمِهِمْ
وَأَنْعَامٌ
حُرِّمَتْ
ظُهُورُهَا
وَأَنْعَامٌ
لَّا
يَذْكُرُونَ
اسْمَ
اللَّهِ
عَلَيْهَا
افْتِرَاءً
عَلَيْهِ
سَيَجْزِيهِم
بِمَا
كَانُوا
يَفْتَرُونَ
wa-qālū hādhihī ʾanʿāmun wa-ḥarthun ḥijrun lā yaṭʿamuhā ʾillā man nashāʾu bi-zaʿmihim wa-ʾanʿāmun ḥurrimat ẓuhūruhā wa-ʾanʿāmun lā yadhkurūna sma llāhi ʿalayhā ftirāʾan ʿalayhi sa-yajzīhim bi-mā kānū yaftarūna
And they say, ‘These cattle and tillage are a taboo: none may eat them except whom we please,’ so they maintain, and there are cattle whose backs are forbidden and cattle over which they do not mention Allah’s Name, fabricating a lie against Him. Soon He will requite them for what they used to fabricate.
— Ali Quli Qarai
And they say that such and such cattle and crops are taboo, and none should eat of them except those whom - so they say - We wish; further, there are cattle forbidden to yoke or burden, and cattle on which, (at slaughter), the name of Allah is not pronounced; - inventions against Allah's name: soon will He requite them for their inventions.
