44 commandments in the HOLY QURAN

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44 Commandments in The Holy Quran.




A Muslim is expected to avoid certain things in his practical way of life, because they are specifically prohibited by the Qur'anic teaching. Thus, the violation of any of these prohibitions constitutes, from the Islamic point of view, a major sin.

It is prohibited:

1. To ascribe to God as partner. (4:46, 116)

2. To feel safe and indifferent when disobeying God. (7:99)

3. To lose hope in mercy of God when you disobey Him. (39:53)

4. To swear in His Name falsely. (2:225)

5. To break a covenant deliberately. (8:27; 17:34)

6. To kill a human being other than in self-defense or in defense of your country against aggression. (17:33; 25:68)

7. To run away from battle while you are defending sacred principles. (8:15-16)

8. To be a traitor to your nation. (8:27)

9. To steal. (5:38-39)

10. To be homosexual. (7:81; 4:16)

11. To commit adultery. (17:32)

12. To cheat in measuring or weighing when selling or purchasing. (83:1-3)

13. To use an orphan's fund or property in a way that is not in the orphan's interest. (4:10)

14. To insult your parents. (17:23-24)

15. To scandalize people, especially women, or even to inform a person of some bad doing of a believer, unless concealing it is harmful to others. (104:1; 24:23)

16. To backbite a believer. (49:12)

17. To spread hatred among people by preaching prejudice. (49:13)

18. To lie deliberately. (40:28; 24:7)

19. To spy on others, except to protect your nation or yourself. (49:12)

20. To conceal truth when called for testimony in litigation. (2:283)

21. To be a briber or accept bribery. (2:188)

22. To convey to a person a bad word of another person about him. (17:53; 68:11-16)

23. To envy people, wishing them ill. (113:1-5)

24. To hinder a good cause deliberately. (4:167)

25. To be a hypocrite. (9:68)

26. To fail to discharge a trust deliberately or negligently. (8:27)

27. To be extravagant. (7:31; 25:67)

28. To be profane. (10:68)

29. To give a false testimony. (25:72)

30. To insult a believer for no legitimate reason. (49:11)

31. To antagonize people, especially relatives, for no right cause. (4:36)

32. To be proud, looking down upon others. (31:18; 16:23)

33. To be an oppressor or to aid an oppressor. (42:42)

34. To violate a deceased's will deliberately. (2:181)

35. To be a deceiver. (35:43; 16:94)

36. To give a false testimony at a litigation. (25:72)

37. To neglect the duty of advising people to do good and avoid evil, when such an advice is needed and likely to be effective. (3:104; 110)

38. To gamble. (2:218; 5:90-91)

39. To take intoxicant. (2:219; 5:90-91)

40. To eat pork or any swine's product. (2:173; 5:3)

41. To eat meat of an animal that died by itself (this does not include fish which dies outside the water). (2:173; 5:3)

42. To drink or eat blood (this does not include transfusion of blood). (2:173; 5:3)

43. To neglect any of the Islamic devotional duties:


a: such as the daily prayers (2:110;),

b: fasting in Ramadan (2:183; 185),

c: paying the regular charity (2:110; 3:180),

d: and pilgrimage to Mecca (3:96-97)


44. To practice magic (20:73; 10:77) As in sorcery, a much more common practice centuries ago. "But sorcerers can never come to a happy end!"

May Allah (swt) give us the strength and ability to follow all the commandments. Ameen
 
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