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
Arnfinn Haram Arnfinn Haram Arnfinn Andreas Haram O.P. (September 25, 1948 - 10, June 2012) was a Norwegian Dominican brother, social debater and nonfiction author, born in Ålesund, raising in Haram municipality in Sunnmøre, and dying in Oslo. Haram was educated at the Faculty of Theology in Oslo and became a priest in the Norwegian Church in Loddefjord and Laksevåg, both Bergen's boroughs. However in 1998 Haram converted to the Latin Church. He made his eternal vows in 2002 and became a Catholic priest in 2003. Haram studied at Angelicum in Rome, where he became a licentiate in theology in 2008 at