Through this verse the foods that are unlawful are mentioned, in order to close the door of excuses: ``He has forbidden you carrion, blood, the flesh of swine, and any flesh that is slaughtered in the name of any other than Allah.''

      By carrion or dead meat, is meant the animal that dies of itself and is not expressly slaughtered for food - Then comes the BLOOD that the Pagan Arabs used to take it congealed and eat it fried. - The third prohibited is the swine flesh. Naturally the pig is a filthy animal, and filthy animals taken as food effects the eater. On the other had swine flesh has more fat than muscle-building materials and it also is more liable to diseases like TRICHINOSIS than other kinds of meat. Pig meat is the first food of the Christians while it is as prohibited to them as it is to Muslims, if they only could believe in their scriptures. They read in LEVITICUS 11: 7-8 :

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      ``Do not eat pigs, they are unclean. They do not chew the cud, but they have divided hoofs. So do not eat these animals and even do not touch their dead bodies. The pigs are unclean animals.''

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE

      The fourth prohibited food is any flesh that is slaughtered in the name of any other than Allah, like the idols and fetishes.