I found a book authored by my respected teacher "Halal ki Ihemiyyat" and I thought to translate it and share its beneficial contents with you, which would be a source of my salvation in the hereafter.....
FIRST SECTION: Verses regarding the Importance of Halal
FIRST SECTION: Verses regarding the Importance of Halal
Without Halal sustenance, worship is unacceptable
It is the command of Allah that we eat pure
It is a sufficient virtue that the believers
are together with the Prophets in this command
Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala has emphasized in his pure and holy words regarding the importance of Halal sustenance. Similarly, this issue has emphasized in many blessed Ahadith of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihe Wasallam.
Below are selections of verses and Ahadith along with their interpretation.
Verse 1
يا ايهالرسل كلوا من الطيبات واعملواصالحا اني بما تعملون عليم
O’ Messengers, eat of the good things and act rightly, I most certainly know what you do.
23:51
In this verse Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala mentions that the way in which We have given you permission to use Our blessings and ordered you to worship, We have also commanded the Messengers and through them their nations that you and your Ummah should eat that which is good and pure, and then thank Allah by doing righteous deeds. I am aware of what you are doing. I will reward you according to your worship and righteous deeds.
يا ايهالرسل
O Messengers!
When the Messengers of Allah are being addressed in this manner, then this decree holds greater importance for the respective nation of each Messenger. The ultimate aim of this verse is to make sure that the Ummah acts upon it.
In another verse the believers have been clearly ordered to do this. The Prophet of Allah has mentioned this subject matter in a Hadith.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihe Wasallam once said:
O you people, Allah is good, and He only accepts what is good. Allah has issued to the believers the same command that He gave to the Messengers, for He said:
O you Messengers, eat of the good things, and do right. I am indeed aware of what you do. (23:51)
Allah also says:
O you who truly believe! Eat of the good things with which we have provided you. (2:172)
Then the Prophet mentions a man who undertakes a very long journey, describing him as: Unkempt, covered in dust, he stretches his hands toward the sky, (crying): ‘O my Lord! O my Lord!’ but his source of food, drink and clothing is unlawful, and he sustains himself unlawfully, so how can he expect a response to his appeal?
(Muslim / at-Tirmidhi)
كلوا من الطيبات
Eat of the good things.
The literal meaning of the word ‘tayyibat’ is clean and pure. Because all the things which the Islamic Shari’ah regards Haram are not pure and nor do intellectuals regard them to be so. This is why from the word ‘tayyibat’ it is meant all things, which are Halal, clean and pure from inward and outward.
Qadhi Thana’ullah Panipaty writes in his Tafseer al-Mazhari that ‘tayyibat’ clearly means everything that is Halal. And the order of eating pure items is an obligatory, meaning that don’t eat anything Haram. Or ‘tayyibat’ may mean delicious or tasteful, in that case the meaning of the verse is to create ease and show permissibility and forbid asceticism.
Some scholars have written that ‘tayyibat’ means Halal, pure and healthy.
Halal is that in which disobedience of Allah is not committed and its opposite is Haram.
Pure is that by consuming it, a person will not become ignorant of Allah, opposite to that is where one becomes ignorant of Allah and he begins to follow his own egos.
Healthy means that it keeps him away from his own desire and safeguards his understanding and its opposite is to overeat. (Tafseer al-Mazhari)
واعملواصالحا
And work righteous deeds.
In this verse we find that every Messenger in his time was given two pieces of advice, to eat Halal, and to do righteous deeds.
Ulama have stated that in bringing these two commands together it is an indication that eating Halal has a major part to play in being able to do righteous deeds.
When ones sustenance is Halal then this will automatically enable him to do good deeds, and when one consumes Haram then even though if one intends to do righteous deeds, it will prevent him from doing so. Righteous deeds means to fulfil the command of Allah in the way it has been ordered solely for the pleasure of Allah. In conclusion, we have commanded every messenger that do not eat anything which is Haram but eat Halal and do righteous deeds.
Allamah Ibn Kathir Rahemahullah writes ‘Verily Halal helps to do good deeds’. In the verse Allah is not mentioning a certain taste or colour but he is saying eat which is Halal.
It is narrated in a Sahih Hadith that the Prophet of Allah said, “Every Messenger was a shepherd”. The companions asked, “Even you O’ Prophet of Allah?” The Prophet replied, “Even me, I used to graze the sheep of the people of Makkah in exchange for a few Qiraat”.
It is also mentioned in the Hadith that the Prophet Daud Alaihis Salam use to eat from the money he earned whilst working.
At the end of the verse, Allah says ‘do not think even for a moment that we are unaware of what you do, because
Below are selections of verses and Ahadith along with their interpretation.
Verse 1
يا ايهالرسل كلوا من الطيبات واعملواصالحا اني بما تعملون عليم
O’ Messengers, eat of the good things and act rightly, I most certainly know what you do.
23:51
In this verse Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala mentions that the way in which We have given you permission to use Our blessings and ordered you to worship, We have also commanded the Messengers and through them their nations that you and your Ummah should eat that which is good and pure, and then thank Allah by doing righteous deeds. I am aware of what you are doing. I will reward you according to your worship and righteous deeds.
يا ايهالرسل
O Messengers!
When the Messengers of Allah are being addressed in this manner, then this decree holds greater importance for the respective nation of each Messenger. The ultimate aim of this verse is to make sure that the Ummah acts upon it.
In another verse the believers have been clearly ordered to do this. The Prophet of Allah has mentioned this subject matter in a Hadith.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihe Wasallam once said:
O you people, Allah is good, and He only accepts what is good. Allah has issued to the believers the same command that He gave to the Messengers, for He said:
O you Messengers, eat of the good things, and do right. I am indeed aware of what you do. (23:51)
Allah also says:
O you who truly believe! Eat of the good things with which we have provided you. (2:172)
Then the Prophet mentions a man who undertakes a very long journey, describing him as: Unkempt, covered in dust, he stretches his hands toward the sky, (crying): ‘O my Lord! O my Lord!’ but his source of food, drink and clothing is unlawful, and he sustains himself unlawfully, so how can he expect a response to his appeal?
(Muslim / at-Tirmidhi)
كلوا من الطيبات
Eat of the good things.
The literal meaning of the word ‘tayyibat’ is clean and pure. Because all the things which the Islamic Shari’ah regards Haram are not pure and nor do intellectuals regard them to be so. This is why from the word ‘tayyibat’ it is meant all things, which are Halal, clean and pure from inward and outward.
Qadhi Thana’ullah Panipaty writes in his Tafseer al-Mazhari that ‘tayyibat’ clearly means everything that is Halal. And the order of eating pure items is an obligatory, meaning that don’t eat anything Haram. Or ‘tayyibat’ may mean delicious or tasteful, in that case the meaning of the verse is to create ease and show permissibility and forbid asceticism.
Some scholars have written that ‘tayyibat’ means Halal, pure and healthy.
Halal is that in which disobedience of Allah is not committed and its opposite is Haram.
Pure is that by consuming it, a person will not become ignorant of Allah, opposite to that is where one becomes ignorant of Allah and he begins to follow his own egos.
Healthy means that it keeps him away from his own desire and safeguards his understanding and its opposite is to overeat. (Tafseer al-Mazhari)
واعملواصالحا
And work righteous deeds.
In this verse we find that every Messenger in his time was given two pieces of advice, to eat Halal, and to do righteous deeds.
Ulama have stated that in bringing these two commands together it is an indication that eating Halal has a major part to play in being able to do righteous deeds.
When ones sustenance is Halal then this will automatically enable him to do good deeds, and when one consumes Haram then even though if one intends to do righteous deeds, it will prevent him from doing so. Righteous deeds means to fulfil the command of Allah in the way it has been ordered solely for the pleasure of Allah. In conclusion, we have commanded every messenger that do not eat anything which is Haram but eat Halal and do righteous deeds.
Allamah Ibn Kathir Rahemahullah writes ‘Verily Halal helps to do good deeds’. In the verse Allah is not mentioning a certain taste or colour but he is saying eat which is Halal.
It is narrated in a Sahih Hadith that the Prophet of Allah said, “Every Messenger was a shepherd”. The companions asked, “Even you O’ Prophet of Allah?” The Prophet replied, “Even me, I used to graze the sheep of the people of Makkah in exchange for a few Qiraat”.
It is also mentioned in the Hadith that the Prophet Daud Alaihis Salam use to eat from the money he earned whilst working.
At the end of the verse, Allah says ‘do not think even for a moment that we are unaware of what you do, because
“اني بما تعملون عليم” I most certainly know what you do.
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