22.1 Dietary
22.1.1 Eat what is lawful and good
O you people! Eat of what is on earth, lawful and good;
and do not follow the footsteps of Satan, for he is to you
an open enemy.
Ch 2: V 168
So eat of the sustenance which Allah has provided for
you, lawful and good; and be grateful for the favours of
Allah, if it is He whom you serve.Ch 16: V114
22.1.2 Eat in moderation
… Eat of the good things We have provided for your
sustenance, but commit no excess therein, lest My
Wrath should justly descend on you: and those on
whom descends My Wrath do perish indeed!Ch 20: V 81
22.1.3 Pronounce Allah’s name over it
So eat of (meats) on which Allah’s name has been
pronounced, if you have faith in His signs.
Why should you not eat of (meats) on which Allah’s
name has been pronounced, when He has explained
to you in detail what is forbidden to you - except under
compulsion of necessity? ... Your Lord knows best those
who transgress.Ch 6: V118 - 119
22.1.4 Forbidden foods
Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the
flesh of swine, and that on which has been invoked the
name of other than Allah; that which has been killed by
strangling, or by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or
by being gored to death; that which has been (partly)
eaten by a wild animal; unless you are able to slaughter
it (in due form); that which is sacrificed on stone (altars);
(forbidden) also is the division (of meat) by raffling with
arrows: that is impiety... but if any is forced by hunger,
with no inclination to transgression, Allah is indeed Oft-
Forgiving, Most Merciful.
Ch 5: V4
Say: “I find not in the message received by me through
inspiration any (meat) forbidden to be eaten by
one who wishes to eat it, unless it be dead meat, or
blood poured forth, or the flesh of swine,- for it is a
transgression - or, what is impious, (meat) on which a
name has been invoked, other than Allah’s”. But (even
so), if a person is forced by necessity, without wilful
disobedience, nor transgressing due limits, Your Lord is
Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.Ch 6: V145
22.2 Oaths
Allah will not call you to account for oaths which you
have uttered without thought, but He will call you to
account for your deliberate oaths: for expiation, feed
ten needy persons, on a scale of the average for the
food of your families; or clothe them; or give a slave his
freedom. If that is beyond your means, fast for three
days. That is the expiation for the oaths you have
sworn. But keep to your oaths. Thus does Allah make
clear to you His signs, that you may be grateful.Ch 5: V92
22.3 Missed fasts
(Fasting in the month of Ramadan is prescribed) for
a fixed number of days; but if any of you is ill, or on a
journey, the prescribed number (should be made up)
from days later. For those who find it hard, is a ransom,
the feeding of one that is needy. But he that will give
more of his own free will, it is better for him. And it is
better for you that you fast, if you only knew.Ch 2: V 184