Crossword clues for haram
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see harem.
Wiktionary
a. forbidden by Islam: unlawful, sinful. n. (context Islam English) A sin.
Wikipedia
The Arabic term ḥaram has a meaning of "sanctuary" or "holy site" in Islam.
Haram (; ) or Haraam is an Arabic term meaning "forbidden". Thus it may refer to: either something sacred to which access is forbidden to the people who are not in a state of purity or who are not initiated into the sacred knowledge; or to an evil thus "sinful action that is forbidden to be done". The term also denotes something "set aside", thus being the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew concept qadoš, and the concept of sacer (cf. sacred) in Roman law and religion. In Islamic jurisprudence, haram is used to refer to any act that is forbidden by Allah, and is one of five Islamic commandments ( (al-ahkam al-khamsah)) that define the morality of human action. Acts that are haram are typically prohibited in the religious texts of the Quran and the Sunnah. The category of haram is the highest status of prohibition. Islam teaches that a haram (sinful) act is recorded by an angel on the person's left shoulder. If something is considered haram, it remains prohibited no matter how good the intention is or how honorable the purpose is. A haram is converted into a gravitational force on the day of judgment and placed on mizan (weighing scales). Views of different madhabs can vary significantly regarding what is or is not haram.
Ḥaram ( Old South Arabian ḥrm-m, with mimation Ḥaramum) is an ancient city in the north of al-Jawf in modern-day Yemen, at about 1100 metres above sea level. It is bordered by the Yemen Highlands to the north, in the west by the ancient Kaminahu (present day Kamna), in the east by the ancient Qarnāwu (modern Ma'īn) and in the south by the Ghayl, otherwise known as the village of al-Ḥazm.
In early times Ḥaram was a city state, which however by the early 7th century BCE (according to the so-called “Long Chronology”) was already a vassal of the Kingdom of Saba’ to the south and of its ruler Karab El Watar. During the war of Saba’ against Awsān and the city states of Nashan and Nashq, the Ḥaramite king Yadhmurmalik supported Saba’ with an army under the leadership of one General Hanba from the clan of Naʿman. It is from this time that the temple of Banāt ‘Ād dates, it is situated in front of the gates of Ḥaram, and contains many dedicatory inscriptions, including some to the Ḥaramite god Mutibbnatyan. At the time of the founding of the Kingdom of Ma’īn at the latest, the capital of which, Qarnāwu, was only 6 kilometers away, Ḥaram lost its importance. After the end of the Minaean Kingdom, it regained its importance for a while under Sabaean rule. It is not clear just when Ḥaram was abandoned.
Haram (; ) is an Arabic term meaning "sinful", often in reference to an act forbidden in Islam.
Haram or Al-Haram may also refer to:
Haram is a 2015 Indian Malayalam romantic drama film written, edited and directed by Vinod Sukumaran. The film, produced by P Sukumar and Saji Samuel, under the banner of Odd Impressions and Big Leaf, stars Fahadh Faasil and Radhika Apte. Satheesh Kurup worked as the cinematographer, while the music band Thaikkudam Bridge composed the music. Haram released on 20 February 2015.
Usage examples of "haram".
David Street past the jog where it becomes es-Silsileh, two hundred yards towards the Haram, then north on el-Wad, and the Souk el-Qattanin comes in on your right.
Haram it turned due north, running between the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, less than fifty feet from where the Souk el-Qattanin became the Bab el-Qattanin, the Gate of the Cotton Merchants, which was the Haram entrance closest to the Dome itself.
Arch was at the next Haram entrance down, but surely there was a shaft here somewhere?
Close by came Rrisa, his brown face contracted with fanatic hate of the Beni Harb, despoilers of the Haram sanctuary.
There lay the despoilers of the Haram, the robber-tribe of Sheik Abd el Rahman, helpless in blank unconsciousness.
What will not the orthodox tribes give for this arch-Shiah, this despoiler of the sacred Haram at Mecca?
The swarming Haram enclosure presented one of the most extraordinary spectacles ever witnessed by human eyes.
An astonishing change, however, swept over the infuriated mob in the Haram and throughout the radiating streets.
Every man in the Haram, the minarets, the arcade, and the radiating streets heard every word I said, gentlemen, as plainly as if I had spoken directly into his ear.
A perfect silence fell on the Haram and the city for perhaps half a mile on all sides of the sacred enclosure Haram and streets, roof-tops, squares all looked as if suddenly covered with deep snow.
Nothing more natural than that a cold draught should have soughed from the pent interior of the temple, or that the air-liner, slowly turning as she hung above the Haram, should with her vast planes have for a moment thrown her shadow over the square.
The Haram grew all a confusion of wild-waving arms, streaming robes, running men who stumbled over the paralyzed forms of their coreligionists.
The sales rep at Haram had the slightly-unbelievable name of Mike Fright.
The merchant was accused of having made zina with two of his concubines at the same time, while his four wives and a third concubine were let to watch, and all together those circumstances were haram under Muslim law.
I gradually learned from the proceedings that even the most vilely haram offense is not punishable by Muslim law unless at least four eyewitnesses testify to its having been committed.