Verses 165–172

1.It is easy to mislead people for the worldly desires and status but its result is very severe. The Holy Quran has described the scene vividly that the leaders will say that they are fed up of their followers and their disciples would wish they had kept aloof from them in the world. The connections would have been severed and the severe chastisement of Allah will be facing them and there will not be any possibility even to come out of hell. That in spite of this dislike for each other they would have to remain in hell together.

2.Islam is the religion of cleanliness and purity. It permits only those things for us that are pure and clean. There is a little difference between halaal and Tayyib; the first one denotes all those things that arc lawful even though it might not be actually lawful and Tayyib is that thing which is lawful in the true sense also. The word of halaal with tayyib is an open invitation of precaution.

3.This nature is found in every age that some people consider the teachings of their forefathers to be more important than the commands of Allah and the Prophet. They do not even know that their forefathers were not having even as much sense and understanding as they have. They prefer their own intelligence over that of their forefathers in every matter. It is only in the matter of religion that they ignore their own reason and follow the rules and customs of their forefathers. The Holy Quran has severely criticized this habit and called such people by appellations of senseless, animal, blind, deaf and dumb and one eligible for divine chastisement.

4.Religion of Islam has clarified about all the matters of life and also explained the questions regarding eating and drinking and explained the misunderstandings of the past. It has also criticized those whose policy is to forgo the pleasures and they do not even use the halal and pure foods and it has also blamed those who are ready even to eat forbidden things. After that it has indicated towards a law of helplessness which is the most important principles of Islam and it has a sort of control on every type of law. That wherever there is helplessness and compulsion. Islam is ready to remove every obligation and forbidding law provided the man does not have an evil intention and he is showing himself to be helpless while actually he is attracted towards it and even at the time of using he must not exceed the necessary limit, he should remain within the limits. In the present age those who express helplessness in eating forbidden things should pay attention to these two conditions. They should remember that even at the time of using the forbidden thing they should consider it unacceptable and they must not feel pleasure in it which is the right way of compulsion. They must not also cross the limits of necessity otherwise Allah is aware of the hidden secrets and the heart’s intention. In the present age some people consider it necessary to have tea etc. at the polytheists though there is no sort of compulsion in having tea, which Allah knows well.