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yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū la-yabluwannakumu llāhu bi-shayʾin mina ṣ-ṣaydi tanāluhū ʾaydīkum wa-rimāḥukum li-yaʿlama llāhu man yakhāfuhū bi-l-ghaybi fa-mani ʿtadā baʿda dhālika fa-lahū ʿadhābun ʾalīmun
O you who have faith! Allah will surely test you with some of the game within the reach of your hands and spears, so that Allah may know those who fear Him in secret. So whoever transgresses after that, there is a painful punishment for him.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah Al-Ma’idah, Verse 94
Hunting during pilgrimage period, prohibited-the Inviolable Security of Ka'bah declared.
94. "O' you who have Faith! Allah will surely try you with something of the game which your hands and your spears can reach, so that Allah may ascertain who fears Him in secret. So whoever transgresses after that for him there is a painful punishment."
During the time when a pilgrim to Mecca is in pilgrim garment and is performing the pilgrimage rites, the one has not the right of hunting. During the same time, occasionally it happens that a hunt approaches a person so nigh that he can catch it by a simple jump, but the trial of Allah is in this fact that we should not touch the hunt. So, if we hunt it, the punishment of Allah includes us. Hunting itself brings forth no painful chastisement, but chastisement is for the breaking law. In the land where Abraham overlooked Ishmael, you would overlook the hunts either. The verse says: