List of actions prohibited by the Qur'an

{{islam}}{{hatnote|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.<ref group=note>For example: if a question applies to a gender which you don't identify as, or you might be unsure if [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDcfZrAhXt0 your poem is divinely beautiful], or you could be unsure if a woman you randomly walked past on the street was [[Menstruation|on her flow]].</ref>

==Prohibitions==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:89%;"
|-
! style="width:10%;" | Type
! style="width:35%;" | Crime
! style="width:15%;" | Verse(s)
! style="width:40%;" | Punishment
|-
| rowspan=2; | Religious
| rowspan=2; |<vote poll=QuranSin01>Not believing in [[Allah]]</vote>
|{{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."
|-
| Religious
|<vote poll=QuranSin02>Making "war" on Allah or spreading "corruption"<ref group=note>Often used against [[Apostasy|apostates]]. Also used frequently in [[Iran]] as a catch-all charge against political opponents.</ref></vote>
|{{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''?
|-
| Religious
|<vote poll=QuranSin03>[[Problem of evil|Not believing in God, because he causes bad things]]</vote>
|{{Qur'an|22|11}}
|'''Suffering and hell:''' They "loseth both the world and the Hereafter". (They suffer here, then go to Hell.)
|-
| Religious
|<vote poll=QuranSin04>Believing in Allah, but in the wrong way</vote>
|{{Qur'an|2|13}}
|'''Hell:''' The punishment is "to wander blindly on in their contumacy." Again, Allah makes it impossible to turn back.
|-
| Religious
|<vote poll=QuranSin05>Being someone who 
questions Muhammad
 "disputeth concerning Allah without knowledge"</vote>
|{{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."
|-
| Social
|<vote poll=QuranSin06>Befriending someone who 
questions Muhammad
 "disputeth concerning Allah without knowledge"</vote>
|{{Qur'an|22|3|4}}
|'''Hell:''' Said friend "will guide him to the punishment of the Flame". Choosing bad friends is Hell-worthy, clearly.
|-
| Religious
|<vote poll=QuranSin07>Thinking that "Allah will not give him (Muhammad) victory in the world and the Hereafter"</vote>
|{{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".
|-
| Religious
|<vote poll=QuranSin08>Trying, and failing, to write a religious verse more beautiful than those in the Qur'an</vote>
|{{Qur'an|2|23|24}}
|'''Hell:''' The offender must "guard [themself] against the Fire prepared for disbelievers".
|-
| Religious
|<vote poll=QuranSin09>Writing something and claiming it's "from Allah"</vote>
|{{Qur'an|2|79}}
|'''Woe:''' There will be a lot of "woe".
|-
| Religious
|<vote poll=QuranSin10>Worshipping golden calves</vote>
|{{Qur'an|2|54}}
|'''Suicide:''' [[Muhammad]] tells the guilty to "turn in penitence to your Creator, and kill [...] yourselves".
|-
| Religious
|<vote poll=QuranSin11>Breaking the [[Sabbath]]<ref group=note>Muslims today do not observe the Sabbath. Proposals in [[Iran]] to replace Thursday with Saturday as part of the weekend have received pushback due to [[anti-Semitism]].</ref></vote>
|{{Qur'an|2|65}}
|'''Apehood:''' Apparently you become an non-human [[ape]], "despised and hated".
|-
| Sexual
|<vote poll=QuranSin12>If male, 
riding the red river home
 having [[sex]] with a [[Menstruation|menstruating]] female.</vote>
|{{Qur'an|2|222}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Social
|<vote poll=QuranSin13>[[No_Cussing_Club|Calling people mean nicknames]]</vote>
|{{Qur'an|49|11}}
|'''Evil-hood:''' You become an "evil-doer".
|-
| Sexual
|<vote poll=QuranSin14>[[Ted_Haggard|Having gay sex]]<ref group=note>Definitely includes multiple men, possibly includes multiple women. Smoking hot, either way.</ref></vote>
|{{quran|7|80|84}}, {{quran|27|54|58}}
|'''Exile:''' Both sexual partners get driven out of town. They also get rained on, just 'cuz.
|-
| Sexual
|<vote poll=QuranSin15>Having gay sex and refusing to repent</vote>
|{{quran|4|16}}
|'''Unspecified:''' Both are punished in some unspecified way. If they repent, nothing happens. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
|-
| Social
|<vote poll=QuranSin16>Being the wife of someone who has had gay sex</vote>
|{{quran|7|80|84}}, {{quran|27|54|58}}
|'''Stoning:''' The woman gets a rain (of stones) cast upon her.
|-
| Social
|<vote poll=QuranSin17>Re-marrying your deceased kin's widow against her consent</vote>
|{{quran|4|19}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Social
|<vote poll=QuranSin18>Forcefully taking back the bridal money you gave your deceased kin's widow when you married her, unless she is being very lewd</vote>
|{{quran|4|19}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Social
|<vote poll=QuranSin19>Doubting your fellow believers</vote>
|{{quran|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.
|-
| Sexual
|<vote poll=QuranSin20>Being a lewd woman</vote>
|{{quran|4|15}}
|'''Death by boredom:''' If four witnesses attest to your lewdness, then you shall be confined "to the houses until death take them".
|-
| Sexual
|<vote poll=QuranSin21>Committing adultery (all genders)</vote>
|{{quran|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
|<vote poll=QuranSin22>If an adulterer, marrying a non-adulterer</vote>
|{{quran|24|3}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Social
|<vote poll=QuranSin23>Accusing an "honorable woman" of adultery without four witnesses</vote>
|{{quran|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
|<vote poll=QuranSin24>Committing usury (loaning money at high rates)</vote>
|{{quran|2|275}}
|'''Hell:''' "Such are rightful owners of the Fire. They will abide therein."
|-
| Dietary
|<vote poll=QuranSin26>Drinking blood</vote>
|{{quran|2|173}}, {{quran|6|145}}, {{quran|16|115}}, {{quran|5|3}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Dietary
|<vote poll=QuranSin27>Eating dead and decaying animals</vote>
|{{quran|2|173}}, {{quran|6|145}}, {{quran|16|115}}, {{quran|5|3}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Dietary
|<vote poll=QuranSin28>Eating pig meat</vote>
|{{quran|2|173}}, {{quran|6|145}}, {{quran|16|115}}, {{quran|5|3}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Dietary
|<vote poll=QuranSin29>Eating animals that have been sacrificed to gods other than Allah</vote>
|{{quran|2|173}}, {{quran|6|145}}, {{quran|16|115}}, {{quran|5|3}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Dietary
|<vote poll=QuranSin30>Eating animals that have been strangled</vote>
|{{quran|5|3}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Dietary
|<vote poll=QuranSin31>Eating animals that have been beaten to death</vote>
|{{quran|5|3}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Dietary
|<vote poll=QuranSin32>Eating animals that fell to their death</vote>
|{{quran|5|3}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Dietary
|<vote poll=QuranSin33>Eating animals that have been gored to death by horns</vote>
|{{quran|5|3}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Dietary
|<vote poll=QuranSin34>Eating animals that have been attacked by wild animals, unless they survive the attack and you kill them yourself</vote>
|{{quran|5|3}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Dietary
|<vote poll=QuranSin35>Eating animals that have been sacrificed upon an altar</vote>
|{{quran|5|3}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Dietary
|<vote poll=QuranSin36>Divvying up meat by raffle or games of chance</vote>
|{{quran|5|3}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Dietary
|<vote poll=QuranSin37>Eating meat that has not had Allah's name said over it</vote>
|{{quran|5|4}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Dietary
|<vote poll=QuranSin38>Eating cattle while on pilgrimage</vote>
|{{quran|5|1}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Social
|<vote poll=QuranSin39>Profaning monuments to Allah or the Sacred Month or offerings to Allah or garlands or pilgrims</vote>
|{{quran|5|1}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Social
|<vote poll=QuranSin25>As a man, marrying: your mother, your daughter(s), your sister(s), your father's sister(s), your mother's sister(s), your brother's daughter(s), your sister's daughter(s), your foster-mother(s), your foster-sister(s), your mother-in-law(s), your step-daughter(s) (unless you divorced their mother without fucking her), or married women</vote>
|{{quran|4|23|24}}
|'''Unspecified:''' However, none of the that applies if the woman in question is your slave.
|-
| Social
|<vote poll=QuranSin40>Practicing "amusement of speech" to "mislead others from the way of Allah without knowledge" (which some Salafi groups believe applies to music, although not all Muslims believe this).</vote> 
|{{quran|31|6}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|-
| Social
|<vote poll=QuranSin41>Take the Jews and the Christians as ''Awliya'' (custodian, ally ,leader)<ref group=note>Used to denouce close relationships with non-Muslims or take non-Muslims leader</ref>.</vote> 
|{{quran|5|51}}
|'''Unspecified'''
|}

==''Not'' prohibitions==
<vote poll=QuranSin>Depicting Mohammed.<ref>[http://zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/islamic_mo_full/ Mohammed Image Archive]</ref></vote>

==See also==
*[[List of actions prohibited by the Bible]]
*[[Qur'an]]
*[[RationalWiki:Annotated Qur'an]]
*[[Qur'anic scientific foreknowledge]]
*[[Qur'anic contradictions]] (in particular: [[Qur'anic contradictions#Is Allah merciful?|Is Allah merciful?]])
*[[Qur'anic scientific errors]]
*[[Sexism in the Qur'an]]

==External links==
*[http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2012/01/islam-its-mostly-about-going-to.html Islam: It's mostly about going to the bathroom], Dwindling in Unbelief
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/2y1u9n/list_of_things_muslims_consider_forbidden_haram/ List Of Things Muslims Consider Forbidden (Haram)], /r/exmuslim
==Notes==
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==References==
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