691 Cf.
2:173 and n. 173 and 174. The prohibition of dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which other names than that of Allah have been invoked, has been there explained. 692 If an animal dies by strangling, or by a violent blow, or a headlong fall, or by being gored to death, or by being attacked by a wild animal, the presumption is that it becomes carrion, as the life-blood is congealed before being taken out of the body. But the presumption can be rebutted. If the life-blood still flows and the solemn mode of slaughter (dhabh) in the name of Allah as a sacrifice is carried out, it becomes lawful as food. 693 This was also an idolatrous rite, different from that in which a sacrifice was devoted to a particular idol or a false god. 694 Gambling of all kinds is forbidden:
2:219. A sort of lottery or raffle practised by Pagan Arabs has been described in n. 241. Division of meat in this way is here forbidden, as it is a form of gambling. 695 So long as Islam was not organised, with its own community and its own laws, the Unbelievers had hoped to wean the Believers from the new Teaching. (Now that hope was gone, with the complete organisation of Islam). 696 It is considered by many as the last verse revealed chronologically, marking the approaching end of al Mustafa's ministry in his earthly life.