Maeda 94-95
94- YOU WHO BELIEVE, ALLAH WILL TEST YOU WITH ANIMAL TO HUNT (GAME ANIMALs) WHICH YOUR HANDS AND SPEARS CAN REACH, SO THAT ALLAH WILL KNOW WHO FEARS HIM WHEN NOT SEEN, AS FOR HE WHO TRANSGRESSES AFTER THAT, HE WILL HAVE A PAINFUL PUNISHMENT.
95- YOU WHO BELIEVE, DO NOT KILL THE GAME ANIMALS WHILE YOU ARE IN IHRAM, AND FOR HE WHO KILLS IT INTENTIONALLY, HIS PUNISHMENT IS OF THE SAME AS WHAT HE KILLED OF THE DOMESTICATED ANIMAL, WHICH TWO JUST PEOPLE OF YOU SHOULD RULE, A SACRIFICE TO THE KABBA, OR A RANSOM THE FEEDING OF A NEEDY PERSON, OR WHAT IS EQUAL TO THIS, FASTING, SO THAT HE MAY TASTE HOW MUCH WRONG HE DID. ALLAH PARDONS WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST, BUT FOR WHOEVER RETURNS TO DOING THIS, ALLAH WILL TAKE VENGEANCE OF HIM, FOR ALLAH IS MOST EXALTED AND HAS VENGEANCE.
There are very stern laws about people in Ihram when they go to Hajj or Omrah. While on Ihram, one is not allowed to hurt any animal or bird with few exception; also one is not allowed to hunt game animals or birds. Allah the Highest is telling us clearly that we will be tested during Ihram to see if will respect the state of Ihram or not. Our tests will be by making some of these animals or birds easily available for us to hunt, to see if the state of Ihram is respected or not.
This happened to the Muslims who went with Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him on Omrah and were stopped at Hudibya, when a 10 years peace treaty was agreed there. One test of their obedience was that they could not go on Omrah that years and had to return to Medina and go again the next year.
The second test was while they were in Hudaibya and in Ihram, they had many game animals like dear wondering around them, and they could have hunted them easily, but they did not.
Hunting animals or birds on the way to Hajj is not likely to happen at the present day and age. It is the observation of the proper behavior and conduct of people on Hajj. It is not like being in any other times or place.
What is the ransom to this mistake?
- The person who hunted should seek the judgement of two fair and just people as to the proper equivalent to the animal hunted. The equivalent animal should then be slaughtered in Makkah, and have its meat distributed there.
A Deere’s equivalent would be a sheep, and so on according to the size and value of the pray.
- If the equivalent is not available or there is no equivalent, then it should be of the value of the hunted animal, or its equivalent used to buy food with to feed people of the average what one eats, two meals in a day.
- If the person unable to afford the ransom, he should fast a day for every needy person he should have fed.
“BUT FOR WHOEVER RETURNS TO DOING THIS, ALLAH WILL TAKE VENGEANCE OF HIM, FOR ALLAH IS MOST EXALTED AND HAS VENGEANCE”
The end of the command and law carries a very stern warning for those who do not take Allah’s instructions and prohibitions seriously, that Allah the Highest will punish them in the Hereafter and will take vengeance on them.
There are not many times in the Quran when Allah the Highest makes such stern and serious warning.
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