Overall meaning : The Almighty commands His believing servants to eat of animals over which His name has been pronounced at the time of their slaughter if they truly believe in His manifest signs and proofs and genuinely submit to His laws.
What should prevent them from eating of the flesh of that over which Allah’s Name has been pronounced, He asks, when He has already spelled out to them what He has forbidden them, unless they are compelled to do so by necessity? Many people, He further explains, lead themselves and their followers astray by their desires through lack of knowledge and without any proof whatsoever. Allah best knows those who transgress His limits, and thus they will not escape His punishment.
Allah Almighty then enjoins His servants to eschew all sins and not to commit them in secret or in public, stating that those who disobey this command will be punished commensurate with the sins they have committed.
Next, He strictly orders the faithful not to eat from any slaughtered animal over which His name is not pronounced at the time of slaughter, for doing so is an outright act of disobedience. He further explains that the devils whisper and make suggestions to their supporters from among the idolaters to dispute with the believers using specious arguments to mislead them, and that if the believers obey them and consider eating the flesh of animals that die of themselves and all that Allah has declared forbidden, they will indeed become just as guilty of associating partners with Him.