The Fourth Dietary Prohibition

• Appendix 16 points to 6:145.
• Every audio and video explanation we have from the messenger explaining the dietary prohibitions explains that it is only in reference to animal products.
• Every time he describes the fourth dietary prohibition in the audios and videos it is in reference to the moment of slaughter.
• We have no indication to believe that the messenger had a dramatic change in understanding regarding the fourth dietary prohibition from animals to all foods
• Mentioning (zikr) God’s name upon food before we eat applies to all food, while uhilla applies to only animals sacrificed.
• The messenger restricts the dietary prohibitions to only animal products, but he generalizes that we must mention (zikr) God’s name when we eat any food. This shows that the dietary prohibitions do not include fruits and vegetables and only apply to ANIMAL PRODUCTS.

Say, “I do not find in the revelations given to me any food that is prohibited for any eater except: (1) carrion, (2) running blood, (3) the meat of pigs, for it is contaminated, and (4) the meat of animals blasphemously dedicated to other than GOD.” If one is forced (to eat these), without being deliberate or malicious, then your Lord is Forgiver, Most Merciful.