Haram import or export alcoholic beverages, or to work in or own a place that sells these intoxicants. Giving intoxicants as a gift is also considered haram. Other intoxicants, such as tobacco, paan, dokha, and khat have been deemed forbidden by a some scholars. Regarding foods vanilla extract and gelatin are also forbidden either due to being an intoxicant themselves, containing certain percentages of alcohol or other forbidden items such as pig parts. There are also a number of hadith regarding the prohibition of meat and intoxicants in Islam: In an incident narrated by Rafi ibn Khadij, Muhammad told Muslims who
Haram, Norway merged into the neighboring Sandøy Municipality to the east. Also on that date, most of the municipality of Vatne (population: 2,260) to the southeast of Haram Municipality was merged into Haram Municipality. There was one other municipal boundary change on that date in 1965: the Søvik area in Borgund Municipality (population: 1,191) to the south of Haram Municipality were merged with Haram. This boundary change created a much larger municipality of Haram. In June 2017, the Parliament of Norway voted to merge Haram with the neighboring municipalities of Skodje, Ørskog, Sandøy, and Ålesund to form a new, large municipality of