The Apostle Paul said in his First Epistle to the people of the city of Fūrīnyūs (Corinth):
“Food is for the belly, its natural vessel, and the belly is for food, and upon it the curse will fall.”
It is also written in al-Ibriksis—that is, the Acts of the Apostles—that Peter, the chief of the disciples, was in the city of Yāfā (Joppa) staying in the house of a tanner named Simon. He went up to the roof to pray at the sixth hour of the day, fell into a trance, and saw the heavens opened; a sheet descended from the sky until it reached the earth.
Inside it were every four-footed creature of the earth—wild beasts, wolves, and others—together with the birds of the air.
He heard a voice saying to him, “Peter, rise, slaughter, and eat.”
Peter answered, “Lord, I have never eaten anything impure or defiled.” Then there came