Innovated Dietary Prohibitions Condemned (6:143 – 6:144)
Quran Talk Blog · Article · February 3, 2016
Innovated Dietary Prohibitions Condemned
6:143 Eight kinds of livestock: regarding the two kinds of sheep, and the two kinds of goats, say, “Is it the two males that He prohibited, or the two females, or the contents of the wombs of the two females? Tell me what you know, if you are truthful.”
6:144 Regarding the two kinds of camels, and the two kinds of cattle, say, “Is it the two males that He prohibited, or the two females, or the contents of the wombs of the two females? Were you witnesses when GOD decreed such prohibitions for you? Who is more evil than those who invent such lies and attribute them to GOD? They thus mislead the people without knowledge. GOD does not guide such evil people.”
Are there additional kinds of livestock other than the ones mentioned above? Sheep, goats, camels and cattle (male and female).
What about bison, alpaca, lamas, ox, donkey, horses etc?
The word livestock in Arabic is Al-an’am which also means blessing.
51:49 We created a pair (male and female) of everything, that you may take heed.
He is the One who created the two kinds, male and female –