List of actions prohibited by the Qur'an

There are uncountable actions prohibited by the Qur'an. How many have you done?

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Not to be confused with the list of actions prohibited by the Bible.

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Prohibitions

Type	Crime	Verse(s)	Punishment
Religious	2104 Not believing in Allah	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	-671 Making "war" on Allah or spreading "corruption"^[note 1] Cite error: <ref> tags exist for a group named "note", but no corresponding <references group="note"/> tag was found, or a closing </ref> is missing	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	1181 Not believing in God, because he causes bad things	Qur'an 22:11	Suffering and hell: They "loseth both the world and the Hereafter". (They suffer here, then go to Hell.)
Religious	-1344 Believing in Allah, but in the wrong way	Qur'an 2:13	Hell: The punishment is "to wander blindly on in their contumacy." Again, Allah makes it impossible to turn back.
Religious	1570 Being someone who questions Muhammad "disputeth concerning Allah without knowledge"	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	1575 Befriending someone who questions Muhammad "disputeth concerning Allah without knowledge"	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	1360 Thinking that "Allah will not give him (Muhammad) victory in the world and the Hereafter"	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	-1202 Trying, and failing, to write a religious verse more beautiful than those in the Qur'an	Qur'an 2:23-24	Hell: The offender must "guard [themself] against the Fire prepared for disbelievers".
Religious	-1409 Writing something and claiming it's "from Allah"	Qur'an 2:79	Woe: There will be a lot of "woe".
Religious	-1423 Worshipping golden calves	Qur'an 2:54	Suicide: Muhammad tells the guilty to "turn in penitence to your Creator, and kill [...] yourselves".
Religious	1496 Breaking the Sabbath	Qur'an 2:65	Apehood: Apparently you become an non-human ape, "despised and hated".
Sexual	-164 If male, riding the red river home having sex with a menstruating female.	Qur'an 2:222	Unspecified
Social	1469 Calling people mean nicknames	Qur'an 49:11	Evil-hood: You become an "evil-doer".
Sexual	-589 Having gay sex^[note 1] Cite error: <ref> tags exist for a group named "note", but no corresponding <references group="note"/> tag was found, or a closing </ref> is missing	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.
Sexual	-448 Having gay sex and refusing to repent	Qur'an 4:16	Unspecified: Both are punished in some unspecified way. If they repent, nothing happens. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Social	-394 Being the wife of someone who has had gay sex	Qur'an 7:80-84, Qur'an 27:54-58	Stoning: The woman gets a rain (of stones) cast upon her.
Social	-814 Re-marrying your deceased kin's widow against her consent	Qur'an 4:19	Unspecified
Social	-651 Forcefully taking back the bridal money you gave your deceased kin's widow when you married her, unless she is being very lewd	Qur'an 4:19	Unspecified
Social	757 Doubting your fellow believers	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.
Sexual	-25 Being a lewd woman	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".
Sexual	-470 Committing adultery (all genders)	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	-408 If an adulterer, marrying a non-adulterer	Qur'an 24:3	Unspecified
Social	-734 Accusing an "honorable woman" of adultery without four witnesses	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	-708 Committing usury (loaning money at high rates)	Qur'an 2:275	Hell: "Such are rightful owners of the Fire. They will abide therein."
Dietary	-223 Drinking blood	Qur'an 2:173, Qur'an 6:145, Qur'an 16:115, Qur'an 5:3	Unspecified
Dietary	-176 Eating dead and decaying animals	Qur'an 2:173, Qur'an 6:145, Qur'an 16:115, Qur'an 5:3	Unspecified
Dietary	928 Eating pig meat	Qur'an 2:173, Qur'an 6:145, Qur'an 16:115, Qur'an 5:3	Unspecified
Dietary	-490 Eating animals that have been sacrificed to gods other than Allah	Qur'an 2:173, Qur'an 6:145, Qur'an 16:115, Qur'an 5:3	Unspecified
Dietary	-306 Eating animals that have been strangled	Qur'an 5:3	Unspecified
Dietary	-311 Eating animals that have been beaten to death	Qur'an 5:3	Unspecified
Dietary	-466 Eating animals that fell to their death	Qur'an 5:3	Unspecified
Dietary	-562 Eating animals that have been gored to death by horns	Qur'an 5:3	Unspecified
Dietary	-626 Eating animals that have been attacked by wild animals, unless they survive the attack and you kill them yourself	Qur'an 5:3	Unspecified
Dietary	-687 Eating animals that have been sacrificed upon an altar	Qur'an 5:3	Unspecified
Dietary	-451 Divvying up meat by raffle or games of chance	Qur'an 5:3	Unspecified
Dietary	889 Eating meat that has not had Allah's name said over it	Qur'an 5:4	Unspecified
Dietary	-412 Eating cattle while on pilgrimage	Qur'an 5:1	Unspecified
Social	-332 Profaning monuments to Allah or the Sacred Month or offerings to Allah or garlands or pilgrims	Qur'an 5:1	Unspecified
Social	-783 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	Qur'an 4:23-24	Unspecified: However, none of the that applies if the woman in question is your slave.
Social	435 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).	Qur'an 31:6	Unspecified
Social	55 Take the Jews and the Christians as Awliya (custodian, ally ,leader)^[note 1]. Cite error: <ref> tags exist for a group named "note", but no corresponding <references group="note"/> tag was found, or a closing </ref> is missing	Qur'an 5:51	Unspecified

Not prohibitions

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Depicting Mohammed.^[1]

1. ↑ Mohammed Image Archive

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

1. 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.

References