ٱلْمَائِدَة : ٤

  • يَسۡـَٔلُونَكَ They ask you
  • مَاذَآ what
  • أُحِلَّ (is) made lawful
  • لَهُمۡۖ for them
  • قُلۡ Say
  • أُحِلَّ Are made lawful
  • لَكُمُ for you
  • ٱلطَّيِّبَٰتُ the good things
  • وَمَا and what
  • عَلَّمۡتُم you have taught
  • مِّنَ of
  • ٱلۡجَوَارِحِ (your) hunting animals
  • مُكَلِّبِينَ ones who train animals to hunt
  • تُعَلِّمُونَهُنَّ you teach them
  • مِمَّا of what
  • عَلَّمَكُمُ has taught you
  • ٱللَّهُۖ Allah
  • فَكُلُواْ So eat
  • مِمَّآ of what
  • أَمۡسَكۡنَ they catch
  • عَلَيۡكُمۡ for you
  • وَٱذۡكُرُواْ but mention
  • ٱسۡمَ (the) name
  • ٱللَّهِ (of) Allah
  • عَلَيۡهِۖ on it
  • وَٱتَّقُواْ and fear
  • ٱللَّهَۚ Allah
  • إِنَّ Indeed
  • ٱللَّهَ Allah
  • سَرِيعُ is swift
  • ٱلۡحِسَابِ (in taking) account
They ask you, [O Muḥammad], what has been made lawful for them. Say, "Lawful for you are [all] good foods and [game caught by] what you have trained of hunting animals1 which you train as Allāh has taught you. So eat of what they catch for you, and mention the name of Allāh upon it, and fear Allāh." Indeed, Allāh is swift in account.
Footnotes
1 - Such as dogs, falcons, etc.
They will ask you, O Muhammad may peace and salutation be upon him, about what, food, is made lawful for them. Say: 'The good, delicious, things are made lawful for you; and the, quarry of, hunting creatures, dogs, wildcats or birds that catch food, you have taught, training [them] as hounds (mukallibeen is a circumstantial qualifier, derived from kallabtu al-kalba, meaning, 'I released the hound against the quarry') teaching them (tu'allimoonahunna is a circumstantial qualifier referring to the subject of mukallibeen, 'training [them] as hounds', in other words, 'disciplining them') of what God has taught you, of the art of hunting; so eat what they have caught for you, even if they have killed it, as long as they have not eaten any of it. This is in contrast to the untrained [hunting creatures], whose catch is not lawful [for consumption]: the mark of these [being trained hunting creatures] is that they should return after they have been sent out, that they can be curbed when cried at and that they can seize the quarry without eating of it; the minimum number of times by which this may be known is three. If they eat any of it, then it cannot be counted as 'what they have caught' for their trainers, and is consequently unlawful for consumption, as reported in hadeeth in both of the Saheehs [of Bukhaaree and Muslim] - there in it is also mentioned that a catch made by an arrow over which God's name is mentioned is equivalent [in lawfulness] to the catch of trained hunting creatures. And mention God's name over it, when you unleash it. And fear God. Indeed, God is swift at the reckoning'.