Ḥarām

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For the Islamic term for "sanctuary", see Haram.

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Harām (Arabic: حرام Harām, Bosnian: Haram, Turkish: Harâm, Malay: Haram) is an Arabic word, used in Islam to refer to anything that is prohibited by the faith. Its antonym is halāl.

Haraam is a widely used sypnosis to define all that is forbidden by God. This can be an act of sin or evil or consumption or benefit from flesh or otherwise of certain animals, or those animals that are not forbidden deemed not to have been slaughtered in accordance to God's prescribed teaching. The most obvious example of things that are haraam or harām are products forbidden by Muslim dietary laws, such as alcohol (Quran 5:90) and pork (Quran: 5:3), however, whether the said verse refers to alcohol or stronger intoxicants is debated. Pork-derived products such as gelatine are also forbidden.^{[citation needed]} Colourants derived from insects such as carmine (one of the most common red food colorings) (made from the cochineal insect) are also considered as harāam.^{[citation needed]}

The category of harāam also includes all manner of forbidden behaviours, from adultery to any form of abuse.

In 2005, the Fiqh Council of North America issued a fatwa that called "all acts of terrorism targeting civilians... haraam in Islam" and said that "targeting civilians' life and property through suicide bombings or any other method of attack is strictly forbidden and therefore haraam."

"Haraam" is also an expression used by non-Muslim Arabs in or upon receipt of news about certain kinds of situations, and is basically tantamount to the English expression, "for shame". In conversational usage, it is also used to express sympathy towards a living being. Children are commonly told not to mistreat other children or animals because it is 'haraam'.