Al-Ma'idah

So this is where this concept is really coming in and the Muslim has to use his intelligence.

Now, what are the foods prohibited in the Qur'an? What are the main categories? For this, you go to Surah Al-Ma'idah, which is a table spread.

And this chapter deals with a lot of the food products and whatnot.

And in this fifth chapter, verse 3, it said, So it says, Meaning dead animals.

Okay, so now, in terms of prohibited foods, another is intoxication.

So the word that is used is khamr.

And the famous verses in Surah Al-Ma'idah again, verse 90, where it's saying, O believers, intoxicants, that's the word khamr, gambling, idols, and divining arrows, telling the future with arrows, are an abomination of Satan's handiwork.

So avoid them.

Because Surah Yunus in verse 94 says to Muhammad, If you, Muhammad, are in doubt as to the Quran, inquire of Christians and Jews who have read the scriptures before you.

Surah Ali Imran verse 3 and Surah Al-Ma'idah verses 46 to 48 also say that the Gospel and the Torah are a light and a guide to people.

We see that according to the Quran, Muhammad doubted in the authenticity of his own Quran, but his God asked him to learn the truth from his contemporary Christians and Jews who were following the Gospel and the Torah.

This shows that the Torah and the Gospel were not altered before Muhammad, otherwise his God would not call them the light of people.

Surah Yunus in verses 94 and 95 asks Muhammad to lean on the

Torah and Gospel.

Then Surah Al-Ma'idah in verse 43 says that Jews must follow their own Torah and do not need to follow the Quran or Muhammad's decision.

Aren't you amazed that the God of the Quran asked Muhammad to put his trust in the Gospel and the Torah but encourages Jews and Christians that they do not need to follow the Quran? In other words, there is a place for Muhammad and Muslims to doubt or deny the Quran, but not the Torah according to the Quran.

That, Allah Akbar, His curse is in the Quran and is repeated.

If someone says that, you know, I'll recite the whole Surah Fatiha, Baqarah, Al-Imran, Nisa, Ma'idah, Naam, and, you know, I'll recite Falaq-e-Nas, okay, I will do a whole Khatam, but this Surah I don't want to recite it, or this first ayah I don't want to recite it, then his Khatam of Quran is incomplete.

His khatam in tarawih or outside of tarawih, whatever, his khatam is incomplete.

If a person says he will not believe in this ayah or in this surah or in these words, then his iman is incomplete.

That is Islam.

This is now from the Quran, Surah 5.

Surely we sent down the Torah.

See, God's spoken of as we.