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"... or blood poured forth, ..."
This blood is not the blood which remains inside the veins and capillary
blood-vessels among its flesh that comes out from the animal's vessels after
cutting them and pouring a great deal of blood from them.
The third exception is as follows :
"... or the flesh of swine - for that is indeed abomination ..."
All of these abovementioned things are disagreeable in man's nature and are
the source of kinds of pollutions which cause some different damages.
Then, The Qur'an points to the fourth kind of these exceptions, and says :
"... or a tranagression, slain invoking (the name of) other than
Allah, ..."
From the point of ethical and spiritual views, this action is a sign of being
aloof from Allah and from the school of theism both.
Thus, there are assigned two kinds of Islamic conditions for lawful
slaughtering of an animal. Some of these conditions, such as cutting the four
main blood-vessels of the animal and pouring forth its blood, have the aspect of
hygiene, while some others, such as setting the animal toward the direction of
the Ka'bah, reciting the holy phrase : 'Bis millah', and it being slaughtered by
a Muslim, have spiritual aspects.
At the end of the verse, the Qur'an has made an exception, from the usage of
these prohibited meats, those who are forced to eat them by necessity or because
of lack of any other food in order to protect their lives, but not for pleasure
nor more than the limits nor with the purpose of counting the divine unlawful
things as lawful. It says :
"... but whoever is forced (to eat it by necessity) , not desiring
nor transgressing, then surely your Lord is Forgiving, Merciful."
In fact, these two conditions are for the sake that some people do not take
this constrained circumstance as excuse for their transgression to the limits of
the laws of Allah.
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