Haraam is an Arabic term meaning "forbidden". In Islam it's used to refer to anything that's prohibited by the faith. Its antonym is halaal. Haraam is a widely-used synopsis to define all that's forbidden by God. This can be an act of sin or evil or consumption or benefit from flesh or otherwise of certain animals, or those animals that are not forbidden deemed not to have been slaughtered in accordance to God's prescribed teaching. The most obvious example of things that are haraam or har�… (More on Haraam)