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They say, 'These cattle and tillage are sacrosanct, forbidden. No one is to eat of them except whom we will', from among the retainers of the graven images and others - so they assert, in other words, they have no [convincing] argument for it - 'and cattle whose backs have been forbidden, and cannot therefore be ridden, such as the camels [they call] Sā'ibas or Hāmīs, and cattle over which they do not invoke the Name of Allahu ta’ālā', when they slaughter them, invoking instead the names of their idols, ascribing such [rules] to Allahu ta’ālā; forging lies against Him. He will assuredly requite them for what they used to fabricate, against Him.