For you therein [i.e., the animals marked for sacrifice] are benefits for a specified term;926 then their place of sacrifice is at the ancient House.927
Notes
[926] i.e., they may be milked or ridden (in the case of camels) before the time of slaughter.
[927] i.e., within the boundaries of the Ḥaram, which includes Minā.
Verse 33 of Surah Al-Hajj (22:33), a Medinan surah, is in juz 17, on page 336 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.
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Al-Mukhtasar
For you in the sacrificial animals that you slaughter at the House are benefits, such as riding, wool, procreation, milk, until a limited time to the time of their slaughter near the House of Allah which He freed from the control of tyrants.
There are benefits for you in these [sacrificial animals] for an appointed term20, then their place of sacrifice is near the Ancient House21.
Notes
[20] Such as milking and riding them until the time of sacrifice.
[21] i.e., within the precincts of the Haram, which includes Mina.
In them (cattle offered for sacrifice) are benefits for you for an appointed term, and afterwards they are brought for sacrifice unto the ancient House (the Haram - sacred territory of Makkah).
Therein are benefits for you for an appointed term; and afterward they are brought for sacrifice unto the ancient House.
In them ye have benefits for a term appointed: in the end their place of sacrifice is near the Ancient House.
You have advantages in them till a fixed time, then their place of sacrifice is the Ancient House.
Therein are benefits for you to a stated term; thereafter their lawful destination (i.e., for sacrifice) is by the Ancient House.
O you who have believed, do not kill game while you are in the state of iḥrām. And whoever of you kills it intentionally - the penalty is an equivalent from sacrificial animals to what he killed, as judged by two just men among you as an offering [to Allāh] delivered to the Kaʿbah, or an expiation: the feeding of needy people or the equivalent of that in fasting, that he may taste the consequence of his matter [i.e., deed]. Allāh has pardoned what is past; but whoever returns [to violation], then Allāh will take retribution from him. And Allāh is Exalted in Might and Owner of Retribution.
They are the ones who disbelieved and obstructed you from al-Masjid al-Ḥarām while the offering was prevented from reaching its place of sacrifice. And if not for believing men and believing women whom you did not know - that you might trample [i.e., kill] them and there would befall you because of them dishonor without [your] knowledge - [you would have been permitted to enter Makkah]. [This was so] that Allāh might admit to His mercy whom He willed. If they had been apart [from them], We would have punished those who disbelieved among them with painful punishment
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