But they were succeeded by generations who lost the prayers and followed their appetites. They will meet perdition.

Allah desires to turn toward you clemently, but those who pursue their base appetites desire that you fall into gross waywardness.

So, instead of substituting plants for animals, our swollen appetites simply became larger, and the most dangerous aspects of them remained unchanged.

But they were succeeded by an evil posterity who neglected the prayer, and followed their base appetites. So they will soon encounter the reward of perversity,

We have to plan issues many months in advance we have to guess at what public appetites are going to be six months, nine months down the road.

And this engine is not just economic value it is pulling material resources relentlessly through the system, driven by our own insatiable appetites, driven in fact by a sense of anxiety.

and therefore is not by any to be enterprised lightly, or wantonly, to satisfy man's carnal lusts and appetites, but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God, duly considering the causes for which matrimony was ordained.

Why should ye not eat of (meats) on which Allah's name hath been pronounced, when He hath explained to you in detail what is forbidden to you except under compulsion of necessity? But many do mislead (men) by their appetites unchecked by knowledge. Thy Lord knoweth best those who transgress.