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5. To make a Pilgrimage to the Holy Sacred House of
Mecca at least once in his lifetime.
The moral and social implications of these regulations
will be discussed later in detail.
Besides these positive measures, there are others which
may be called preventive and precautionary ones. To protect
man from insanity and degeneration, from weakness and in-
dulgence, from indecency and temptation, Islam has prohib-
ited certain things pertaining to food, drinking, recreation,
and sex. Among these are the following;
1. Ali kinds of intoxicating vvines, liquors, and spirits.
(Our'an, 2:219; 4:43; 5:90-91);
2. The meat and products of swine (pork, bacon, ham,
lard), of wild animals that use claws or teeth to kill their vic-
tims (tigers, wolves, leopards, etc,), of all birds of prey
(hawks, vultures, crows, etc), of rodents, reptiles, worms
and the like, of dead animals and birds that are not slaugh-
tered properly. (Qur'an, 2:172-173; 5:4-5);
3. All forms of gambling and vain sports. (Qur'an,
2:219; 5:90-91);
4. All sexual relations out of wedlock and all manners
of talking, walking, looking and dressing in public that may
instigate temptation, arouse desire, stir suspicion, or indicate
immodesty and indecency, (Qur'an, 23:5-7; 24:30-33; 70:29-31).