Explicitly Forbidden
A variety of substances are considered as harmful (haraam) for humans to consume and, therefore, forbidden as per various Quranic verses:
- Pork
- Blood
- Animals slaughtered in the name of anyone but God. All that has been dedicated or offered in sacrifice to an idolatrous altar or saint or a person considered to be "divine"
- Carrion (carcasses of dead animals)
- An animal that has been strangled, beaten (to death), killed by a fall, gored (to death), savaged by a beast of prey (unless finished off by a human)
- Food over which God's name is not pronounced (or at least not in a name other than God)
- Alcohol
- These verses also have information regarding Halal foods: 2:173, 5:5, and 6:118-119, 121.
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