The Quran provides comprehensive guidance on actions and behaviors that are prohibited for believers, aiming to promote moral conduct and social harmony.
1. Associating partners with Allah (Shirk):
“Indeed, Allah does not forgive association with Him, but He forgives what is less than that for whom He wills.” (4:48)
2. Practicing magic or sorcery:
“But the devils disbelieved, teaching people magic.” (2:102)
3. Murdering a soul unjustly:
“And do not kill the soul which Allah has forbidden, except by right.” (17:33)
4. Engaging in usury (Riba):
“Allah has permitted trade and has forbidden interest.” (2:275)
5. Consuming the property of orphans unjustly:
“Indeed, those who devour the property of orphans unjustly are only consuming into their bellies fire.” (4:10)
6. Bearing false witness:
“And shun false statement.” (22:30)
7. Gambling (Maisir):
“Indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on] stone alters [to other than Allah], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan.” (5:90)
8. Consuming intoxicants:
“O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants… are but defilement from the work of Satan.” (5:90)
9. Theft:
“As for the thief, the male and the female, amputate their hands in recompense for what they committed.” (5:38)
10. Adultery or fornication (Zina):
“And do not approach unlawful sexual intercourse. Indeed, it is ever an immorality.” (17:32)
11. Engaging in homosexuality:
“And [We had sent] Lot when he said to his people, ‘Do you commit such immorality as no one has preceded you with from among the worlds?’” (7:80)
12. Engaging in bribery:
“And do not consume one another’s wealth unjustly or send it [in bribery] to the rulers.” (2:188)
13. Engaging in gossip or backbiting:
“And do not spy or backbite each other.” (49:12)
14. Being arrogant or prideful:
“Indeed, He does not like the proud.” (16:23)
15. Breaking promises or covenants:
“And fulfill every commitment. Indeed, the commitment is ever [that about which one will be] questioned.” (17:34)
16. Engaging in corruption or mischief on earth:
“And do not commit abuse on the earth, spreading corruption.” (2:60)
17. Engaging in false oaths:
“And do not make [your oath by] Allah an excuse against being righteous.” (2:224)
18. Engaging in slander or false accusations:
“And those who harm believing men and believing women for [something] other than what they have earned have certainly born upon themselves a slander.” (33:58)
19. Engaging in hypocrisy:
“Indeed, the hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of the Fire.” (4:145)
20. Engaging in envy or jealousy:
“Do they envy people for what Allah has given them of His bounty?” (4:54)
21. Engaging in spying or eavesdropping:
“And do not spy.” (49:12)
22. Engaging in mocking or ridiculing others:
“O you who have believed, let not a people ridicule [another] people.” (49:11)
23. Engaging in defamation or insulting others:
“And do not insult one another.” (49:11)
24. Engaging in miserliness or stinginess:
“Who are stingy and enjoin upon [other] people stinginess.” (4:37)
25. Engaging in extravagance or wastefulness:
“Indeed, the wasteful are brothers of the devils.” (17:27)
26. Engaging in dishonesty or cheating:
“Woe to those who give less [than due].” (83:1)
27. Engaging in oppression or injustice:
“Indeed, Allah orders justice.” (16:90)
28. Engaging in betrayal or treachery:
“Indeed, Allah does not like traitors.” (8:58)
29. Engaging in spreading immorality or indecency:
“Indeed, those who like that immorality should be spread [or publicized] among those who have believed will have a painful punishment.” (24:19)
30. Engaging in cowardice or fleeing from battle:
“O you who have believed, when you meet those who disbelieve advancing [for battle], do not turn to them your backs [in flight].” (8:15)
31. Engaging in despair or losing hope in Allah’s mercy:
“Indeed, no one despairs of relief from Allah except the disbelieving people.” (12:87)
32. Engaging in ingratitude or thanklessness:
“If you are ungrateful - indeed, Allah is Free from need of you.” (39:7)
33. Engaging in neglecting prayer (Salah):
“So woe to those who pray [but] who are heedless of their prayer.” (107:4-5)
34. Engaging in neglecting obligatory charity (Zakat):
“And woe to those who associate others with Allah, those who (do) not give the zakah, and they in the Hereafter they (are) disbelievers” (41:6-7)
35. Engaging in bearing false witness:
“And shun false statement.” (22:30)
36. Engaging in consuming pork:
“Prohibited to you are dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine” (5:3)
37. Engaging in consuming animals not slaughtered in the name of Allah:
“Prohibited to you are dead animals, blood… and those animals sacrificed on stone altars” (5:3)
38. Engaging in miserliness:
“Who are stingy and enjoin upon people stinginess…” (4:37)
39. Engaging in dishonesty in measurements:
“Woe to those who give less [than due], who when they take a measure from people, take in full.” (83:1-2)
40. Engaging in spreading immorality:
“Indeed, those who like that immorality should be spread [or publicized] among those who have believed will have a painful punishment” (24:19)
41. Engaging in slandering chaste women:
“Indeed, those who [falsely] accuse chaste, unaware and believing women are cursed in this world and the Hereafter…” (24:23)
42. Engaging in spying:
“And do not spy or backbite each other.” (49:12)
43. Engaging in mocking others:
“O you who have believed, let not a people ridicule [another] people; perhaps they may be better than them.” (49:11)
44. Engaging in defamation:
“Woe to every scorner and mocker.” (104:1)
45. Engaging in suspicion without evidence:
“O you who have believed, avoid much [negative] assumption. Indeed, some assumption is sin.” (49:12)
46. Engaging in disobedience to parents:
“And your Lord has decreed that you not worship except Him, and to parents, good treatment.” (17:23)
47. Engaging in severing family ties:
“So would you perhaps, if you turned away, cause corruption on earth and sever your [ties of] relationship?” (47:22)
48. Engaging in killing children for fear of poverty:
“And do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We provide for them and for you.” (17:31)
49. Engaging in pursuing that of which you have no knowledge: “And do not pursue that of which you have no knowledge.” (17:36)
50. Engaging in turning away from the remembrance of Allah: “And whoever turns away from my remembrance - indeed, he will have a depressed life.” (20:124)
51. Engaging in transgressing limits set by Allah:
“And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger and transgresses His limits - He will put him into the Fire…” (4:14)
52. Engaging in taking disbelievers as allies instead of believers:
“O you who have believed, do not take the disbelievers as allies instead of the believers.” (4:144)
53. Engaging in marrying polytheistic women until they believe: “And do not marry polytheistic women until they believe.” (2:221)
54. Engaging in forcing slave girls into prostitution: “But do not compel your slave girls to prostitution, if they desire chastity…” (24:33)
These prohibitions, along with those previously discussed, provide a comprehensive framework for ethical and moral conduct in Islam, guiding believers toward a righteous and fulfilling life.
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