الحَرام

THE PROHIBITED (HARAM)

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2- Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘One of the best noble traits is the avoidance of prohibited things.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 9382]

3- Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Even if Allah, glory be to Him, had not forbidden that which He has prohibited, it would have been mandatory for the one possessing intellect to avoid them
[at least].’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 7595]

4- The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Worship alongside consumption of the prohibited is like erecting a building on sand—or on water
[according to other narrations].’
[`Uddat al-Da`ai, p. 141]

5- The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Abstaining from eating even one morsel of prohibited food is dearer to Allah than a voluntary prayer of one thousand units.’
[Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 2, p. 120]

6- Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘When a man accumulates wealth from prohibited sources, neither his obligatory pilgrimage (Hajj) nor his voluntary pilgrimage (`umra) nor his maintaining kinship will be accepted from him, and it even spoils marriage.’
[Amali al-Tusi, p. 680, no. 1447]

7- Imam al-Sadiq (AS), with regards to Allah’s verse, “Then We shall attend to the works they have done and then turn them into scattered dust”, said, ‘By Allah, even though their deeds were whiter than Egyptian cotton, when the prohibited presented itself before them they did not leave it.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 81, no. 5]

8- The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘He who has unlawful access to enjoy a woman or a maid but leaves her for fear of Allah, He - Mighty and Exalted - will keep him safe from the Fire, preserve him from the Great Terror, and make him enter Paradise.’
[Thawab al-A`amal, p. 334, no. 1]

9- The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘No sooner does a man who is able to commit a prohibited act abandon it, only for fear of Allah, than Allah gives him in lieu of it something that is better for him in this present world before the Hereafter.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 43113]

10- Imam al-Kazim (AS) said, ‘The Prophet (SAWA) used to visit the people of the ledge
[of the mosque], who were his guests and had migrated to Medina without their families and belongings. The Prophet (SAWA) had lodged them on the ledges of the Mosque. They were four hundred men, and he greeted them every morning and every night. One day he came to them while some of them were mending their sandals, some were patching their garments, and some were cleaning their heads from lice. The Prophet (SAWA) used to provide them with half a bushel of dates every day.
One of the men stood up and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah! The dates you provide us with have burned our stomachs!’ The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘If I could feed you the whole world surely I would have done it, but
[know that] those among you who will live after me will be brought bowls
[of food] in the morning and bowls in the evening, and each of you will have a shirt in the morning and another in the evening, and each of you will adorn your houses with curtains and carpets as the Ka`aba is adorned.’
A man then rose and exclaimed, ‘O Messenger of Allah! We are waiting eagerly for that time. When will it be?!’ He (SAWA) said, ‘Your time now is better than that time. When you fill your stomachs with the lawful, you might also fill it with the unlawful.’
[Mustadrak al-Wasail, v. 12, p. 56, no. 13499]