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Lawful & Unlawful
Surah: Al-Maidah (3)
Forbidden to You Are Carrion — The Complete List of Prohibitions
حُرِّمَتۡ عَلَيۡكُمُ ٱلۡمَيۡتَةُ
— المائدة الآية 3
Verse: "Forbidden to you are carrion, blood, swine flesh... the strangled, the beaten, the fallen, the gored." (5:3)
The ten prohibitions: Carrion, flowing blood, swine flesh, dedicated to other than Allah, strangled, beaten, fallen, gored, killed by wild animals, slaughtered on stone altars.
Important exception: "Except what you have properly slaughtered" — if proper slaughter reaches any of these while it still has stable life — it becomes lawful.
The ten prohibitions: Carrion, flowing blood, swine flesh, dedicated to other than Allah, strangled, beaten, fallen, gored, killed by wild animals, slaughtered on stone altars.
Important exception: "Except what you have properly slaughtered" — if proper slaughter reaches any of these while it still has stable life — it becomes lawful.
Source: Al-Qurtubi (6/58); Ibn Al-Arabi (2/36); Ibn Qudama (9/325)
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What is the exception "except what you have properly slaughtered" in the prohibitions verse?
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