Consuming the Prohibited

The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Worship alongside consumption of the prohibited is like erecting a building on sand—or on water [according to other narrations].

The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Abstaining from eating even one morsel of prohibited food is dearer to Allah than a voluntary prayer of one thousand units.

Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘When a man accumulates wealth from prohibited sources, neither his obligatory pilgrimage (Hajj) nor his voluntary pilgrimage (umra) nor his maintaining kinship will be accepted from him, and it even spoils marriage.

Imam al-Sadiq (AS), with regards to Allahs verse, “Then We shall attend to the works they have done and then turn them into scattered dust”, said, ‘By Allah, even though their deeds were whiter than Egyptian cotton, when the prohibited presented itself before them they did not leave it.