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
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