MUST READ! Explanations of why are certain animals Haram in Islam

[Rational Jew]

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Taken from a major shiite forum:

http://www.shiachat.com/forum/topic/234943464-list-of-halaal-and-haraam-fish/#comment-1634986
^ A7adith of Ahl al Bayt (as) record various human beings in the course of history as having been transformed into creatures, their resemblances seen in the creatures existing today.

Masookh:

1) elephant - a king, who was a fornicator/adulterer and sodomite, and would not leave a single thing, neither wet nor dry (referring to bestiality)

2) bear - a man who would invite men to commit sodomy with him

3) rabbit - a woman, who was disloyal to her husband and would neither take ghusl for 7aydz, nor janabah, nor any other ghusl

4) bat - a man who would steal dates from people

5) suhayl (?) - a man who would demand a tenth of people's wages in Yemen and would cheat on the weighing scale

6) zahrah (?) - a woman (a queen) who had forcibly embroiled Harut and Marut in corruption

7) pig - a tribe of Christians who demanded food from the heavens but increased in disbelief and belying the signs after Allah sent it down for them

monkey (ape) - a nation of Bani Israel who transgressed the limits on Saturday

9) eel - a slanderer (and in other a7adith, one who invited people to commit sodomy with him)

10) dzubb (?) - he would steal from the 7ajj/ he would kill whoever passed by him

11) scorpion - a man who would always be looking for people's defects and backbit about them; none was safe from him

12) zambur (?) - he would dupe people on the weighing-scale

13) spider - a woman who would use magic on her husband/ a woman who was disobedient to her husband

14) da3moos (water-worm) - a backbiter who would cause a split between two friends/ an adulterer/ fornicator and who also committed bestiality

There might be slight variations in who was transformed into what. If you know Arabic, the source is 3ilal al sharaa2i3 of Shaikh Saduq available online at alseraj.net.

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