Islamic Rules 1 Islamic Rules Things Islam Considers Haram for Both Genders: 1. Music with Instruments. 2. Un-Islamic decor (Statues). 3. Toys (anything resembling a living thing). 4. Drawing and Art for anything that resembles a human. 5. Eating pork and monkeys (because theyâre related to Jews). 6. Drinking Alcohol. 7. Gambling. 8. Adoption in any form. 9. Playing dice or anything that depends on luck as it goes against Allahâs predetermined fate. 10. Playing anything that results in winning a cash prize. 11. Interest in debt (only interest-free is allowed). 12. Reading and Writing anything that goes outside the realm of Islam (no high fantasy whe re they pray to gods other than Allah, for example). 13. Poetry. 14. Owning pets other than Cats (this is because one of Muhammadâs friends had cats he was called Abu Hurayra, Father of kittens). 15. Dancing. 16. Non-Islamic culture (Wearing jeans and t-shirts; Casual stuff). 17. Counter-Culture/Sub-Culture (Punk, Metal, Goth, etc.). 18. Tattoos. 19. Eating or washing with your left hand. 20. Imitating Non-Muslims (Plucking eyebrows and âbeautifyingâ self). 21. Working with non-Muslims in restaurants, casinos, temples, banks, courts, bars, and mu sic venues. 22. Befriending Non-Muslims and calling them âBrothersâ and âSistersâ; all companionship w ith Non-Muslims should be professional only. 23. Premarital relationships. 24. Making friends with the other gender. 25. Gender Equality. 26. Talking to other genders before marriage. 27. Showing affection in public. 28. Staring or looking directly at the opposite gender. 29. Masturbating. 30. Not praying five times a day. 31. Not washing self (WuâDu) before praying or reading the Quran. 32. Homosexuality, or talking with people who are homosexual. 33. Leaving the religion, or talking with people who left it. 34. Talking with people outside of the Abrahamic religions. 35. Marrying a slave man/woman that you own. 36. Marrying your step sister/brother if she/he breastfeeds from the same mother âIf she/h e didnât it is okay to marry your step sister/brotherâ. 37. Slaughtering an animal without saying âBismillahâ. Islamic Rules 2 38. Stunning the Animal before slitting its throat. 39. Eating said animal (non-halal food). Things Islam Considers Haram for Men: 1. Wearing Gold jewelry. 2. Piercings. 3. Marrying more than four wives. 4. Marrying your birth mother, your grandmother, your daughter, and your granddaughter. (Everyone else is okay, EX Marrying your cousin, your stepmother after the father died, y our mother-in-law, and your grand-granddaughter is okay). 5. Wearing shorts that show the knees. 6. Shaving body hair. 7. Wearing perfume (they use something called Oud/Agarwood, it is incense). 8. Shaving beard lower than 1/2 cm. 9. Having a long Mustache. Things Islam Considers Haram for Women: 1. Showing hair or skin in public. 2. Talking louder than a man. 3. Talking to another man other than husband. 4. Refusing sex when asked to by her husband. 5. Going outside without the consent of her husband. 6. Wearing Jewelry in public. 7. Wearing Makeup in public. 8. Wearing Perfume in public. 9. Arguing with your husband. 10. Arguing with your husbandâs other wives. 11. Denying to marry a man, if youâre not a widow or ex-wife. 12. Marrying another man other than the husband. 13. Marrying a man 6 months after the breakup with ex-husband. 14. Divorcing a man (only heâs the one whoâs allowed to do that). 15. Accusing a man of rape without 4 male witnesses or 8 female witnesses of the actual ra pe. 16. Marrying a Non-Muslim man. 17. Having body hair and imitating men. 18. Lifting her hand against her husband âEven if heâs beating her senselessâ. 19. Make wedding arrangements. 20. Praying with men. 21. Being in the company of other men. 22. Sitting in the living room with the husband and his friends. 23. Eating with the husband and his friends. 24. Refusing to cook food. 25. Work outside the house without a guardian. 26. Be working in a company of other men outside the house. 27. Leave the room without permission. 28. Question the husband critically. Islamic Rules 3 29. Becoming the âwoman of the houseâ after her husband passed away. 30. Becoming a father-figure of a fatherless son (he becomes like her husband, he makes th e rules).