Al-Ma'idah
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Al-Ma'idah · Ayah 3

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Translation

Are made unlawful

Word Breakdown

حُرِّمَتْ

Are made unlawful

Word Breakdown

حُرِّمَتْFi'l · Verb
3rd personFeminineSingularPastForm ((II))Passive
Rootحرم
Common

to forbid, make sacred/unlawful

Lemmaحَرَّمَ

Verb (form II) - to forbid, to make unlawful

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Grammar Rules

Past tense verb
حُرِّمَتْ (Are made unlawful) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.
We translate it in past tense — "did", "created", "said", etc.
Passive voice
حُرِّمَتْ (Are made unlawful) is passive — the action is happening to someone, but who is doing it is not mentioned.
We translate it as "is/was [done]" — e.g. "was created", "is known".
Verb form II — intensified
حُرِّمَتْ (Are made unlawful) uses form II (فَعَّلَ) — the middle letter is doubled, which makes the meaning stronger or causative.
The meaning is more intense than the basic form, or means "to make someone do [action]".

Sahih International

Prohibited to you are dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine, and that which has been dedicated to other than Allāh, and [those animals] killed by strangling or by a violent blow or by a head-long fall or by the goring of horns, and those from which a wild animal has eaten, except what you [are able to] slaughter [before its death], and those which are sacrificed on stone altars, and [prohibited is] that you seek decision through divining arrows. That is grave disobedience. This day those who disbelieve have despaired of [defeating] your religion; so fear them not, but fear Me. This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you and have approved for you Islām as religion. But whoever is forced by severe hunger with no inclination to sin - then indeed, Allāh is Forgiving and Merciful.

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