87يا أَيُّهَا الَّذينَ آمَنوا لا تُحَرِّموا طَيِّباتِ ما أَحَلَّ اللَّهُ لَكُم وَلا تَعتَدوا ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لا يُحِبُّ المُعتَدينَMuhammad AsadO YOU who have attained to faith! Do not deprive yourselves of the good things of life which God has made lawful to you,1 but do not transgress the bounds of what is right: verily, God does not love those who transgress the bounds of what is right.Most of the commentators - including Tabari, Zamakhshari and Razi - explain the expression la tuharrimu (lit., "do not forbid" or "do not declare as forbidden") in the sense given by me above, and take it to refer to the self-mortification practiced, in particular, by Christian priests and monks. The term at-tayyibat comprises all that is good and wholesome in life - "the delightful things which human beings desire and towards which their hearts incline" (Tabari): hence my rendering, "the good things of life".