ٱلْمَائِدَة : ١٠٣

  • مَا Not
  • جَعَلَ has (been) made
  • ٱللَّهُ (by) Allah
  • مِنۢ of
  • بَحِيرَةٖ a Bahirah
  • وَلَا and not
  • سَآئِبَةٖ a Saibah
  • وَلَا and not
  • وَصِيلَةٖ a Wasilah
  • وَلَا and not
  • حَامٖ a Hami
  • وَلَٰكِنَّ [And] but
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those who
  • كَفَرُواْ disbelieved
  • يَفۡتَرُونَ they invent
  • عَلَى against
  • ٱللَّهِ Allah
  • ٱلۡكَذِبَۖ the lie
  • وَأَكۡثَرُهُمۡ and most of them
  • لَا (do) not
  • يَعۡقِلُونَ use reason
Allāh has not appointed [such innovations as] baḥīrah or sā’ibah or waṣīlah or ḥām.1 But those who disbelieve invent falsehood about Allāh, and most of them do not reason.
Footnotes
1 - Categories of particular camels which were dedicated to the idols and set free to pasture, liberated from the service of man.
God has not ordained, He has not stipulated [in His Law], anything such as a Baheera, a Saa'iba, a Waseela or a Haam, in the way that people did at the time of paganism. Al-Bukhaaree reported [in a hadeeth] from Sa'eed ibn al-Musayyab, who said: 'The baheera is that [camel] whose milk is consecrated to idols and whom no human may milk; the saa'iba is the one they would leave to roam freely for their gods and was forbidden to bear any load; the waseela is the young she-camel that would give birth to a young female, as its first offspring, followed by another female, bearing one after the other without a male in between: she would then be left to roam freely for their idols; the haam is the mature male camel, which after completing a certain number of copulations with a female, would then be consigned to their idols and be exempt from bearing any load, and they would call it haamee; but the disbelievers invent lies against God, in this matter, by attributing [the sanctioning of] such [practices] to Him; and most of them do not understand, that this is mendacity, for in this they have [merely] followed the example of their forefathers.