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IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[24:61]
[ALL OF YOU, O believers, are brethren: hence,] no blame attaches to the blind, nor does blame attach to the lame, nor does blame attach to the sick [for accepting charity from the hale], and neither to yourselves for eating [whatever is offered to you by others, whether it be food obtained] from your [children’s] houses, or your fathers’ houses, or your mothers’ houses, or your brothers’ houses, or your sisters’ houses, or your paternal uncles’ houses, or your paternal aunts’ houses, or your maternal uncles’ houses, or your maternal aunts’ houses, or [houses] the keys whereof are in your charge, or [the house] of any of your friends; nor will you incur any sin by eating in company or separately. But whenever you enter [any of these] houses, greet one another with a blessed, goodly greeting, as enjoined by God.
In this way God makes clear unto you His messages, so that you might [learn to] use your reason.

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* v.61 : The whole of verse 61 is construed in so highly elliptic a form that disagreements as to its purport have always been unavoidable. However, if all the explanations offered by the early commentators are taken into consideration, we find that their common denominator is the view that the innermost purport of this passage is a stress on the brotherhood of all believers, expressed in a call to mutual charity, compassion and good-fellowship and, hence, the avoidance of all unnecessary formalities in their mutual relations.
* In the consensus of all the authorities, the expression “your houses” implies in this context also “your children’s houses,” since all that belongs to a person may be said to belong, morally, to his parents as well.
* I.e., “for which you are responsible.”