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وَقَالُوا۟ هَـٰذِهِۦٓ أَنْعَـٰمٌ وَحَرْثٌ حِجْرٌ لَّا يَطْعَمُهَآ إِلَّا مَن نَّشَآءُ بِزَعْمِهِمْ وَأَنْعَـٰمٌ حُرِّمَتْ ظُهُورُهَا وَأَنْعَـٰمٌ لَّا يَذْكُرُونَ ٱسْمَ ٱللَّهِ عَلَيْهَا ٱفْتِرَآءً عَلَيْهِ ۚ سَيَجْزِيهِم بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْتَرُونَ
Text: Tanzil Project,tanzil.net · verbatim and unchanged · previous verse · next verse
And they say: Such cattle and crops are forbidden. No-one is to eat of them save whom we will - in their make-believe - cattle whose backs are forbidden, cattle over which they mention not the name of Allah. (All that is) a lie against Him. He will repay them for that which they invent.— Marmaduke Pickthall
Summary
Verse 138 of Surat al-An'am, a Meccan surah. Scholars connect its revelation to the sacred livestock of the Jahiliyya (bahira, sa’iba, wasila, ham), and idol worship in the Jahiliyya and its rites. 1 2 2
Place in the museum
Its place: verse 138 of 165 verses in the surah. The text is kept in the frozen Tanzil mushaf and is not retyped here.
Connections
- Revealed about
- Consecrated Livestock· Idol worship in the Jahiliyya and its rites
- Part of
- Sura 6: Al-An'am
Sources
- Tanzil Project, Qur'an text v1.1
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Qur'an 6:138”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/passage/quran-6-138/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.