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List of actions prohibited by the Qur'an
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Not to be confused with the list of actions prohibited by the Bible.
There are uncountable actions prohibited by the Qur'an. How many have you done?
Vote up if you've done the thing in question (sinner!), vote down if you haven't (1 like = 1 prayer), vote neutral if and when the question doesn't apply to you or is unclear.[note 1]
Prohibitions
Type | Crime | Verse(s) | Punishment | ||||||
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Qur'an 2:6-7 | Hell: Allah seals their hearing, their hearts, and their sight. When they die, Allah sends them to Hell. In other words: Allah makes it impossible for nonbelievers to convert, and burns them for it. | ||||||
Qur'an 22:19-21 | Hell: "[F]or those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them; boiling fluid will be poured down on their heads, Whereby that which is in their bellies, and their skins too, will be melted; And for them are hooked rods of iron. Whenever, in their anguish, they would go forth from thence they are driven back therein and (it is said unto them): Taste the doom of burning." | ||||||||
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Qur'an 5:33 | Crucifixion or dismemberment and hell: They "will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land" and "in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom". Why have one Hellish experience when you could have two? | ||||||
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Qur'an 22:11 | Suffering and hell: They "loseth both the world and the Hereafter". (They suffer here, then go to Hell.) | ||||||
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Qur'an 2:13 | Hell: The punishment is "to wander blindly on in their contumacy." Again, Allah makes it impossible to turn back. | ||||||
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Qur'an 22:8-9 | Suffering and hell: "For him in this world is ignominy, and on the Day of Resurrection We make him taste the doom of burning." | ||||||
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Qur'an 22:3-4 | Hell: Said friend "will guide him to the punishment of the Flame". Choosing bad friends is Hell-worthy, clearly. | ||||||
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Qur'an 22:15 | Suicide: Though not actually prohibited per se, the Qur'an recommends that this person "stretch a rope up to the roof (of his dwelling), and let him hang himself". | ||||||
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Qur'an 2:23-24 | Hell: The offender must "guard [themself] against the Fire prepared for disbelievers". | ||||||
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Qur'an 2:79 | Woe: There will be a lot of "woe". | ||||||
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Qur'an 2:54 | Suicide: Muhammad tells the guilty to "turn in penitence to your Creator, and kill [...] yourselves". | ||||||
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Qur'an 2:65 | Apehood: Apparently you become an non-human ape, "despised and hated". | ||||||
Sexual |
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Qur'an 2:222 | Unspecified | ||||||
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Qur'an 49:11 | Evil-hood: You become an "evil-doer". | ||||||
Sexual |
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Qur'an 7:80-84, Qur'an 27:54-58 | Exile: Both sexual partners get driven out of town. They also get rained on, just 'cuz. | ||||||
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Qur'an 4:16 | Unspecified: Both are punished in some unspecified way. If they repent, nothing happens. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ | ||||||
Social |
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Qur'an 7:80-84, Qur'an 27:54-58 | Stoning: The woman gets a rain (of stones) cast upon her. | ||||||
Social |
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Qur'an 4:19 | Unspecified | ||||||
Social |
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Qur'an 4:19 | Unspecified | ||||||
Social |
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Qur'an 49:12 | Unspecified: No punishment specified, but Muhammad compared those who do this to those who "love to eat the flesh of his dead brother". Well. | ||||||
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Qur'an 4:15 | Death by boredom: If four witnesses attest to your lewdness, then you shall be confined "to the houses until death take them". | ||||||
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Qur'an 24:2 | Scourging and humiliation: Allah tells us "scourge ye each one of them (with) a hundred stripes", and make sure a crowd of believers witness it. | ||||||
Sexual |
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Qur'an 24:3 | Unspecified | ||||||
Social |
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Qur'an 24:4 | Scourging and distrust and evil-hood: Allah tells us to "scourge them (with) eighty stripes and never (afterward) accept their testimony" for they are evil-doers. | ||||||
Social |
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Qur'an 2:275 | Hell: "Such are rightful owners of the Fire. They will abide therein." | ||||||
Dietary |
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Qur'an 2:173, Qur'an 6:145, Qur'an 16:115, Qur'an 5:3 | Unspecified | ||||||
Dietary |
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Qur'an 2:173, Qur'an 6:145, Qur'an 16:115, Qur'an 5:3 | Unspecified | ||||||
Dietary |
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Qur'an 2:173, Qur'an 6:145, Qur'an 16:115, Qur'an 5:3 | Unspecified | ||||||
Dietary |
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Qur'an 2:173, Qur'an 6:145, Qur'an 16:115, Qur'an 5:3 | Unspecified | ||||||
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Qur'an 5:3 | Unspecified | ||||||
Dietary |
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Qur'an 5:3 | Unspecified | ||||||
Dietary |
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Qur'an 5:3 | Unspecified | ||||||
Dietary |
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Qur'an 5:3 | Unspecified | ||||||
Dietary |
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Qur'an 5:3 | Unspecified | ||||||
Dietary |
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Qur'an 5:3 | Unspecified | ||||||
Dietary |
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Qur'an 5:3 | Unspecified | ||||||
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Qur'an 5:4 | Unspecified | ||||||
Dietary |
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Qur'an 5:1 | Unspecified | ||||||
Social |
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Qur'an 5:1 | Unspecified | ||||||
Social | Qur'an 4:23-24 | Unspecified: However, none of the that applies if the woman in question is your slave. | |||||||
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Qur'an 31:6 | Unspecified | ||||||
Social |
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Qur'an 5:51 | Unspecified |
Not prohibitions
![]() ![]() ![]() | -263 | Depicting Mohammed.[1] |
See also
- List of actions prohibited by the Bible
- Qur'an
- RationalWiki:Annotated Qur'an
- Qur'anic scientific foreknowledge
- Qur'anic contradictions (in particular: Is Allah merciful?)
- Qur'anic scientific errors
- Sexism in the Qur'an
External links
- Islam: It's mostly about going to the bathroom, Dwindling in Unbelief
- List Of Things Muslims Consider Forbidden (Haram), /r/exmuslim
Notes
- ↑ For example: if a question applies to a gender which you don't identify as, or you might be unsure if your poem is divinely beautiful, or you could be unsure if a woman you randomly walked past on the street was on her flow.
- ↑ Often used against apostates.
- ↑ Definitely includes multiple men, possibly includes multiple women. Smoking hot, either way.
- ↑ Used to denouce close relationships with non-Muslims or take non-Muslims leader