For this reason, Hamas has viewed the peace process "as religiously forbidden and politically inconceivable".

All Caesar's friends had taken a turn trying to explain to her that she, an anointed queen, was religiously forbidden to enter Rome.

He did not even use the word 'haram,' " the Arabic word commonly used by rigorous Muslims to condemn what they regard as religiously forbidden.

In its early years, it had condemned as haram (religiously forbidden) both secularism and democracy but later ideological transformations led to the acceptance of both secularism and democracy in post-colonial India.

They do a religiously forbidden thing and we both know it.

Due to Sharia (or Islamic Law), the majority of Sunni Muslims hold that tattooing is religiously forbidden (along with most other forms of 'permanent' physical modification).

It is religiously forbidden for either spouse to remarry without a get and doing so is considered adultery according to Jewish law, and children conceived in it mamzerim.

Any such act from any person is forbidden, and now that I have forbidden it, it is not only legally barred but religiously forbidden.

Hastening salvation and the coming of the Messiah was considered religiously forbidden, and Zionism was seen as a sign of disbelief in God's power and therefore a rebellion against God.

During the Mubarak era most Salafis considered participation in politics to be "religiously forbidden", however since then Salafis have shown themselves to be not only tolerant of political participation but very adept.