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Kapu loa: To be strictly forbidden. Kapu moe: protocol of prostration. Kapu noho: assemblage before the chief. Kapuō: the announcement that a procession is approaching. Kapo ʻōhi'a ko: the ritual performed before an ohia tree can be logged. Kapu puhi kanaka: the rules regarding the killing of people. Kapu wohi: protocol exempting from ...
The opposite principle "everything which is not allowed is forbidden" states that an action can only be taken if it is specifically allowed. A senior English judge, Sir John Laws , stated the principles as: "For the individual citizen, everything which is not forbidden is allowed; but for public bodies, and notably government, everything which ...
Haram (/ h ə ˈ r ɑː m, h æ ˈ-, h ɑː ˈ-,-ˈ r æ m /; [1] [2] Arabic: حَرَام ḥarām [ħɑˈrɑːm]) is an Arabic term meaning 'forbidden'. [3]: 471 This may refer to either something sacred to which access is not allowed to the people who are not in a state of purity or who are not initiated into the sacred knowledge; or, in direct contrast, to an evil and thus "sinful action ...
Halal (/ h ə ˈ l ɑː l /; [1] Arabic: حلال ḥalāl [ħæˈlæːl]) is an Arabic word that translates to ' permissible ' in English. In the Quran, the term halal is contrasted with the term haram (' forbidden, unlawful '). [2]
In 1577, the Formula of Concord was crafted to settle the question of the nature of genuine adiaphora, which it defined as church rites that are “neither commanded nor forbidden in the Word of God.” [6] However, the Formula added believers should not yield even in matters of adiaphora [example needed] when these are being forced upon them ...
Negiah (Hebrew: נגיעה), In english: "touch", is the concept in Jewish law that forbids or restricts sensual physical contact with a member of the opposite sex except for one's spouse, outside the niddah period, and certain close relatives to whom one is presumed not to have sexual attraction.
Yaldabaoth, otherwise known as Jaldabaoth or Ialdabaoth [a] (/ ˌ j ɑː l d ə ˈ b eɪ ɒ θ /; Koinē Greek: Ιαλδαβαώθ, romanized: Ialdabaóth; Latin: Ialdabaoth; [1] Coptic: ⲒⲀⲖⲦⲀⲂⲀⲰⲐ Ialtabaôth), is a malevolent God and demiurge (creator of the material world) according to various Gnostic sects, represented sometimes as a theriomorphic, lion-headed serpent.
According to the well known exegete Al-Tabari (d.923) "right" refers to all that God and His Prophet have commanded, "wrong" to all that they have forbidden, i.e. the sharia. [62] Al-Nawawi also stated that Shariah principles determined what was to be commanded and forbidden. [55] [56] However, the verses are vague and do not speak of Sharia ...