ٱلْأَنْعَام : ١٣٨

  • وَقَالُواْ And they say
  • هَٰذِهِۦٓ These
  • أَنۡعَٰمٞ cattle
  • وَحَرۡثٌ and crops
  • حِجۡرٞ (are) forbidden
  • لَّا no (one)
  • يَطۡعَمُهَآ can eat them
  • إِلَّا except
  • مَن whom
  • نَّشَآءُ we will
  • بِزَعۡمِهِمۡ by their claim
  • وَأَنۡعَٰمٌ And cattle
  • حُرِّمَتۡ forbidden
  • ظُهُورُهَا (are) their backs
  • وَأَنۡعَٰمٞ and cattle
  • لَّا not
  • يَذۡكُرُونَ they mention
  • ٱسۡمَ (the) name
  • ٱللَّهِ (of) Allah
  • عَلَيۡهَا on it
  • ٱفۡتِرَآءً (as) an invention
  • عَلَيۡهِۚ against Him
  • سَيَجۡزِيهِم He will recompense them
  • بِمَا for what
  • كَانُواْ they used to
  • يَفۡتَرُونَ invent
And they say, "These animals1 and crops are forbidden; no one may eat from them except whom we will," by their claim. And there are those [camels] whose backs are forbidden [by them]2 and those upon which the name of Allāh is not mentioned3 - [all of this] an invention of untruth about Him.4 He will punish them for what they were inventing.
Footnotes
1 The four categories of grazing livestock called "anʿām" collectively.
2 See 5:103.
3 At the time of slaughter. Rather, they are dedicated to others among their "deities."
4 i.e., false assertions that such practices are part of Allāh's religion.
They say, 'These cattle and tillage are sacrosanct, forbidden. No one is to eat of them except whom we will', from among the retainers of the graven images and others - so they assert, in other words, they have no [convincing] argument for it - 'and cattle whose backs have been forbidden, and cannot therefore be ridden, such as the camels [they call] Saa'ibas or Haamees, and cattle over which they do not invoke the Name of God', when they slaughter them, invoking instead the names of their idols, ascribing such [rules] to God; forging lies against Him. He will assuredly requite them for what they used to fabricate, against Him.