Who are Ahlul-Kitab?
{Made lawful to you this day are At-Tayyibat [all kinds of Halal (lawful) foods, which Allah has made lawful (meat of slaughtered eatable animals, etc., milk products, fats, vegetables and fruits, etc.). The food (slaughtered cattle, eatable animals, etc.) of the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) is lawful to you and yours is lawful to them. (Lawful to you in marriage) are chaste women from the believers and chaste women from those who were given the Scripture (Jews and Christians) before your time, when you have given their due Mahr (bridal money given by the husband to his wife at the time of marriage), desiring chastity (i.e. taking them in legal wedlock) not committing illegal sexual intercourse, nor taking them as girl-friends. And whosoever disbelieves in the Oneness of Allah and in all the other Articles of Faith [i.e. His (Allah's), Angels, His Holy Books, His Messengers, the Day of Resurrection and Al-Qadar (Divine Preordainments)], then fruitless is his work, and in the Hereafter he will be among the losers.} [Surah Al-Ma’idah 5:5]
Al-Hāfidh Ibn Al-Kathīr, may Allah have mercy upon him, said: "...what it indicates according to its meaning - when the opposite is implied (mafhūm al-mukhālafah) - is that the food (slaughtered cattle, eatable animals, etc.) of any other than them from people of the other religions is impermissible."[1]
Explanation[2]:
And this is regarding all the food of the people of the Book, if they (in fact) belong to the People of the Book.
As with regards to those who now ascribe themselves to Christianity and Judaism in Europe and America and elsewhere, then we fully affirm that they do not belong to the People of the Book, because they have disbelieved in their own religion, even if some amongst them only cloak themselves with its outwardly signs. For indeed most amongst them are atheists and do not believe in Allah, nor in the Prophets. And their books and their news are in front of us, and thus they have went completely against every religion and openly profess immorality and the decomposition of all ethics and integrity.
The marriage to their women is therefore not permissible due to the absence of the description that matches that of the People of the Book, according to the true state of affairs. And it is not allowed to eat their food due to it, because it is established that they never (ritually) slaughter in their lands. On the contrary, they hold that the known lawful sacrifice (legislated by the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth) is a torture of the animals - may Allah humiliate them - and they kill the animals with another methods, they claim that this is more gentle to the animals. Therefore, all their meat is dead (meat), and it is not allowed for the Muslim to eat from it.
Shaykh Ahmad Shakir, may Allah have mercy upon him
Footnotes:
[1] Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr 2/21.
[2] Shaykh Ahmad Shakir in 'Umdatu-t-Tafsīr 4/86.
Translated by Salafi-Dawah.com.
Source: Hukm al-Jâhiliyya, pages 180-181 [click here for screenshot].
Al-Hāfidh Ibn Al-Kathīr, may Allah have mercy upon him, said: "...what it indicates according to its meaning - when the opposite is implied (mafhūm al-mukhālafah) - is that the food (slaughtered cattle, eatable animals, etc.) of any other than them from people of the other religions is impermissible."[1]
Explanation[2]:
And this is regarding all the food of the people of the Book, if they (in fact) belong to the People of the Book.
As with regards to those who now ascribe themselves to Christianity and Judaism in Europe and America and elsewhere, then we fully affirm that they do not belong to the People of the Book, because they have disbelieved in their own religion, even if some amongst them only cloak themselves with its outwardly signs. For indeed most amongst them are atheists and do not believe in Allah, nor in the Prophets. And their books and their news are in front of us, and thus they have went completely against every religion and openly profess immorality and the decomposition of all ethics and integrity.
The marriage to their women is therefore not permissible due to the absence of the description that matches that of the People of the Book, according to the true state of affairs. And it is not allowed to eat their food due to it, because it is established that they never (ritually) slaughter in their lands. On the contrary, they hold that the known lawful sacrifice (legislated by the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth) is a torture of the animals - may Allah humiliate them - and they kill the animals with another methods, they claim that this is more gentle to the animals. Therefore, all their meat is dead (meat), and it is not allowed for the Muslim to eat from it.
Shaykh Ahmad Shakir, may Allah have mercy upon him
Footnotes:
[1] Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr 2/21.
[2] Shaykh Ahmad Shakir in 'Umdatu-t-Tafsīr 4/86.
Translated by Salafi-Dawah.com.
Source: Hukm al-Jâhiliyya, pages 180-181 [click here for screenshot].
الْيَوْمَ أُحِلَّ لَكُمُ الطَّيِّبَاتُ ۖ وَطَعَامُ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ حِلٌّ لَكُمْ وَطَعَامُكُمْ حِلٌّ لَهُمْ ۖ وَالْمُحْصَنَاتُ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ وَالْمُحْصَنَاتُ مِنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ إِذَا آتَيْتُمُوهُنَّ أُجُورَهُنَّ مُحْصِنِينَ غَيْرَ مُسَافِحِينَ وَلَا مُتَّخِذِي أَخْدَانٍ ۗ وَمَنْ يَكْفُرْ بِالْإِيمَانِ فَقَدْ حَبِطَ عَمَلُهُ وَهُوَ فِي الْآخِرَةِ مِنَ الْخَاسِرِينَ
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قال الحافظ ابن كثير: ...فدل بمفهومه - مفهوم المخالفة - على أن طعام من عداهم من أهل الأديان لا يحل.. تفسير ابن كثير
قال الشيخ أحمد شاكر رحمه الله: هذا كله في طعام أهل الكتاب إذا كانوا أهل كتاب. أما المنتسبون الآن للنصرانية واليهودية في أوربة وأمريكا وغيرهما, فنحن نقطع أنهم ليسوا أهل كتاب, لأنهم كفروا بأديانهم وإن اصطنع بعضهم رسومها الظاهرة فقط. فأكثرهم ملحدون لا يؤمنون بالله ولا بالأنبياء, وكتبهم وأخبارهم بين أيدينا فهم قد خرجوا على كل دين ودانوا بالإباحية والتحلل في الأخلاق والأعراض فلا يجوز نكاح نسائهم لفقدانهم صفة أهل الكتاب, على الحقيقة. ولا يجوز أكل طعامهم لذلك, ولأن الثابت أنهم لا يذبحون في بلادهم قط. بل يرون الذبح الشرعي المعروف تعذيباً للحيوان
أخزاهم الله- ويقتلون الحيوان بطرق أخرى, يزعمون أنها أرفق بالحيوان فكل اللحوم عندهم ميتة, لا يجوز لمسلم أن يأكل منها. انتهى. المصدر: عمدة التفسير للشيخ أحمد شاكر رحمه الله
سورة المائدة ٥
قال الحافظ ابن كثير: ...فدل بمفهومه - مفهوم المخالفة - على أن طعام من عداهم من أهل الأديان لا يحل.. تفسير ابن كثير
قال الشيخ أحمد شاكر رحمه الله: هذا كله في طعام أهل الكتاب إذا كانوا أهل كتاب. أما المنتسبون الآن للنصرانية واليهودية في أوربة وأمريكا وغيرهما, فنحن نقطع أنهم ليسوا أهل كتاب, لأنهم كفروا بأديانهم وإن اصطنع بعضهم رسومها الظاهرة فقط. فأكثرهم ملحدون لا يؤمنون بالله ولا بالأنبياء, وكتبهم وأخبارهم بين أيدينا فهم قد خرجوا على كل دين ودانوا بالإباحية والتحلل في الأخلاق والأعراض فلا يجوز نكاح نسائهم لفقدانهم صفة أهل الكتاب, على الحقيقة. ولا يجوز أكل طعامهم لذلك, ولأن الثابت أنهم لا يذبحون في بلادهم قط. بل يرون الذبح الشرعي المعروف تعذيباً للحيوان
أخزاهم الله- ويقتلون الحيوان بطرق أخرى, يزعمون أنها أرفق بالحيوان فكل اللحوم عندهم ميتة, لا يجوز لمسلم أن يأكل منها. انتهى. المصدر: عمدة التفسير للشيخ أحمد شاكر رحمه الله