MUHARAMAT
PROHIBITIONS THAT ARE TAKEN TOO LIGHTLY
by Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid
1. Introduction (to the book)
2. Shirk: associating partners in worship with Allaah
3. Grave-worship
4. Sacrificing to anything other than Allaah
5. Allowing what Allaah has forbidden and forbidding what Allaah has allowed
6. Magic, fortune-telling and divination
7. Astrology, or believing that the stars and planets have an influence on people’s lives and events
8. Believing that certain things can bring benefit when the Creator has not made them so
9. Showing off in worship
10. Superstitious belief in omens
11. Swearing by something other than Allaah
12. Sitting with hypocrites and wrongdoers to enjoy their company or to keep them company
13. Lack of composure in prayer
14. Fidgeting and making unnecessary movements in prayer
15. Deliberately anticipating the movements of the imaam (when praying in congregation)
16. Coming to the mosque after eating onions or garlic, or anything that has an offensive smell
17. Zinaa - fornication and adultery
18. Sodomy (homosexuality)
19. Not allowing one’s husband to have marital relations for no legitimate reason
20. Asking one’s husband for a divorce for no legitimate reason
21. al-Zihaar
22. Having intercourse with one’s wife during her period
23. Having intercourse with one’s wife in her rectum
24. Not treating co-wives fairly
25. Being alone with a non-mahram woman
26. Shaking hands with a non-mahram woman It is hararm, however exception may apply ... in very exceptional cases
27. A woman wearing perfume when going out or passing by non-mahram men < for sure a no no
28. A woman travelling without a mahram difference of opinion exists, on application
29. Deliberately looking at a non-mahram woman
30. Seeing one’s womenfolk behaving in an immoral fashion and keeping silent
31. Making false claims about a child’s lineage, or denying one’s own child
32. Consuming riba (usury or interest)
33. Concealing a product’s faults at the time of sale
34. Artificially inflating prices
35. Trading after the second call to prayer on Friday
36. Gambling
37. Theft
38. Offering or accepting bribes
39. Seizing land by force
40. Accepting a gift in return for interceding
41. Hiring someone and benefitting from his labour, then not paying him his wages
42. Not giving gifts equally to one’s children
43. Asking people for money when one is not in need
44. Seeking a loan with no intention of repaying it
45. Consuming haraam wealth
46. Drinking khamr - even a single drop
47. Using vessels of gold and silver, or eating or drinking from them
48. Bearing false witness
49. Listening to music and musical instruments
50. Gossip and backbiting
51. Slander
52. Looking into people’s houses without their permission
53. Two people conversing privately to the exclusion of a third
54. Isbaal - wearing clothes that come down below the ankles
55. Men wearing gold in any shape or form
56. Women wearing short, tight or see-through clothes
57. Wearing wigs and hairpieces, whether made from natural or artificial hair, for men and women
58. Men resembling women and women resembling men, in dress, speech and appearance
59. Dyeing one’s hair black
60. Having pictures of animate beings on clothing, walls or paper, etc. difference of opinion on how this applies btw
61. Lying about one’s dreams
62. Sitting or walking on graves, or answering the call of nature in a graveyard
63. Not cleaning oneself properly after passing water
64. Eavesdropping on people who do not want to be heard
65. Being a bad neighbor
66. Writing a will for the purpose of harming one of the heirs
67. Playing backgammon and chess though Makruh according to the Sha'fee School
68. Cursing a believer or someone who does not deserve to be cursed
69. Wailing (at time of bereavement)
70. Striking or branding the face
71. Abandoning a Muslim brother for more than three days with no legitimate reason.
All comments in Italics are my additions
PS. The author of the table is irrelevant in this case
PROHIBITIONS THAT ARE TAKEN TOO LIGHTLY
by Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid
1. Introduction (to the book)
2. Shirk: associating partners in worship with Allaah
3. Grave-worship
4. Sacrificing to anything other than Allaah
5. Allowing what Allaah has forbidden and forbidding what Allaah has allowed
6. Magic, fortune-telling and divination
7. Astrology, or believing that the stars and planets have an influence on people’s lives and events
8. Believing that certain things can bring benefit when the Creator has not made them so
9. Showing off in worship
10. Superstitious belief in omens
11. Swearing by something other than Allaah
12. Sitting with hypocrites and wrongdoers to enjoy their company or to keep them company
13. Lack of composure in prayer
14. Fidgeting and making unnecessary movements in prayer
15. Deliberately anticipating the movements of the imaam (when praying in congregation)
16. Coming to the mosque after eating onions or garlic, or anything that has an offensive smell
17. Zinaa - fornication and adultery
18. Sodomy (homosexuality)
19. Not allowing one’s husband to have marital relations for no legitimate reason
20. Asking one’s husband for a divorce for no legitimate reason
21. al-Zihaar
22. Having intercourse with one’s wife during her period
23. Having intercourse with one’s wife in her rectum
24. Not treating co-wives fairly
25. Being alone with a non-mahram woman
26. Shaking hands with a non-mahram woman It is hararm, however exception may apply ... in very exceptional cases
27. A woman wearing perfume when going out or passing by non-mahram men < for sure a no no
28. A woman travelling without a mahram difference of opinion exists, on application
29. Deliberately looking at a non-mahram woman
30. Seeing one’s womenfolk behaving in an immoral fashion and keeping silent
31. Making false claims about a child’s lineage, or denying one’s own child
32. Consuming riba (usury or interest)
33. Concealing a product’s faults at the time of sale
34. Artificially inflating prices
35. Trading after the second call to prayer on Friday
36. Gambling
37. Theft
38. Offering or accepting bribes
39. Seizing land by force
40. Accepting a gift in return for interceding
41. Hiring someone and benefitting from his labour, then not paying him his wages
42. Not giving gifts equally to one’s children
43. Asking people for money when one is not in need
44. Seeking a loan with no intention of repaying it
45. Consuming haraam wealth
46. Drinking khamr - even a single drop
47. Using vessels of gold and silver, or eating or drinking from them
48. Bearing false witness
49. Listening to music and musical instruments
50. Gossip and backbiting
51. Slander
52. Looking into people’s houses without their permission
53. Two people conversing privately to the exclusion of a third
54. Isbaal - wearing clothes that come down below the ankles
55. Men wearing gold in any shape or form
56. Women wearing short, tight or see-through clothes
57. Wearing wigs and hairpieces, whether made from natural or artificial hair, for men and women
58. Men resembling women and women resembling men, in dress, speech and appearance
59. Dyeing one’s hair black
60. Having pictures of animate beings on clothing, walls or paper, etc. difference of opinion on how this applies btw
61. Lying about one’s dreams
62. Sitting or walking on graves, or answering the call of nature in a graveyard
63. Not cleaning oneself properly after passing water
64. Eavesdropping on people who do not want to be heard
65. Being a bad neighbor
66. Writing a will for the purpose of harming one of the heirs
67. Playing backgammon and chess though Makruh according to the Sha'fee School
68. Cursing a believer or someone who does not deserve to be cursed
69. Wailing (at time of bereavement)
70. Striking or branding the face
71. Abandoning a Muslim brother for more than three days with no legitimate reason.
All comments in Italics are my additions
PS. The author of the table is irrelevant in this case
