What are major sins of islam?

ibn azem

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Bismillah,

:salam2:

AL- Kaba'ir Major Sins


1. Associating partners with Allaah (Shirk)
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Great Shirk: worshipping beings other than Allaah (proof all over Qur'ân)
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Small Shirk: Riya

The Prophet (saw), "Should I not inform you of that which I fear for you even more than the dangers of dajjaal? It is the hidden shirk: A person stands to pray and he beautifies his prayer because he sees the people looking at him". (Sahih; Sunan ibn Majah)

2. Committing murder: (Furqan; 68)

3. Performing Sorcery (2: 102)

4. Not performing the Prayers (Maryam: 59)

5. With holding the Zakah (Charity) (3: 180)

6. Breaking the fast of Ramadhan or not fasting in that month without a valid excuse.
Prophet (saw) said, "Islaam is built upon five pillars: testifying that there is no true god except Allah and that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, performing the prayers, paying the Zakah, making the pilgrimage to the house, and fasting the month of Ramadhan" (Sahih al-Jami # 2837)

7. Not performing the pilgrimage when one has the ability to do so (above hadith)

8. Disobeying one's parents (al-Isra: 23)

9. Cutting off the ties of relationships (Muhammad: 22)

10. Committing adultery or fornication (al-Isra: 30)

11. Committing sodomy
The Prophet (saw) said, "Allaah will not look at a person (with pleasure) who commits sodomy with a man or a woman" (Sahih al-Jami # 7678)

12. Taking or paying interest (2: 275)

13. Devouring the wealth of orphans (4:10)

14. Forging statements concerning Allaah or forging Hadith (al-Zumar: 60)

15. Fleeing from the battle (al-Anfal: 16)

16. Wrongdoing, deception or oppression on the part of the ruler (al-Shura: 42)

17. Being arrogant, boastful, vain (al-Nahl: 23)

18. Giving false testimony (al-Furqan: 72)

19. Drinking alcoholic beverages (5: 90)

20. Gambling (5: 90)

21. Slandering innocent women (al-Nur: 23)

22. Misappropriating something from the booty (3:161)

23. Stealing (5:38)

24. Committing highway robbery (5: 33)

25. Making false oath
Prophet (saw) said, "If someone is ordered to take an oath and he takes a false oath in order to take possession of property of a Muslim, then he will incur Allah's wreath when he meets Him" (Sahih al-Jami # 6083)

26. Committing oppression (al-Shuara: 277)

27. Levying illegal taxes
Prophet (saw) said, "Do you know who the bankrupt is? The bankrupt form my nation is the one who appears on the Day of Resurrection having performed the prayers, fasted and paid the zakah, but had also abused that person, slandered that person, wrongfully taken the wealth of that person and spilled the blood of that person. These people will take from his good deeds. If his good deeds are thereby exhausted, he will be given their sins and then he will be thrown into the hell-fire" (Sahih al-Jami #87)

28. Consuming forbidden wealth or taking it by any means (2: 188)

29. Committing suicide (4: 29)

30. Being a perpetual liar (3: 61)

31. Ruling by laws other than the laws of Islam (5: 44)

32. Engaging in bribery (2: 188)

33. Women appearing like men and vice-versa
Prophet (saw) said, "Allah's curse is upon women who appear like men and upon men who appear like women" (Sahih al-Jami # 4976)

34. Being a dayyouth
Dayyouth: is the one who approves the indecency of his womenfolk and who is void of jealousy or the pimp who facilitates indecency between two people
Prophet (saw) said, "Allah has forbidden the Paradise to three people: the alcoholic, the runaway slave, and the one who is complacent in the face of the evil deeds that his family is performing" (Sahih al-Jami # 3047)

35. Marrying for the purpose of making a woman allowable for another (Baqarah)

36. Not keeping clean from the remains of urine
Ibn Abbas reported that Prophet (saw) passed by a grave and said, "These two are being punished and they are not being punished for something hard. But it is a great sin. One of them did not keep himself clean form his urine and the other went around spreading tales" (Sahih al-Jami # 2436)

37. Acting for show (al-Maoon: 4-6)

38. Acquiring knowledge only for worldly gain or concealing knowledge (2: 160)

39. Breaching trusts (al-Anfal: 27)

40. Reminding people of one's kindness (2: 27)

41. Denying predestination (al-Qamar: 49)
"If Allah were to punish the inhabitants of the heavens and earths, then He would punish and He would not be doing injustice to them. If He were to have mercy on them, His mercy would be greater than from their actions. If a person had amount of gold equivalent to Mount Uhud or similar to Mount Uhud and spent it in the Path of Allah, (that spending) would not be accepted form him by Allah until he believes in the preordainment of good and evil. And until he knows that what afflicted him was not going to miss him and what missed him was not going to afflict him. If you were to die with any belief other than that, you would enter the Hellfire" (Kitab al-Sunnah by Ibn Abu Asi # 245. Albani says that its chain is sahih)

42. Eavesdropping on other's private conversation (Hujarat: 12)

43. Spreading harmful tales (al-Qamar: 10)

44. Cursing others
Prophet (saw) said, "Abusing a Muslim is evil and fighting him is disbelief" (Sahih al-Jami # 3598)

45. Not fulfilling one's promises
Prophet (saw) said, "Whoever has a four characteristic is a complete hypocrite. Whoever posses any of these characteristics has the characteristics of hypocrisy until he gives it up; whenever he makes a promise, he breaks it up…" (Bukhari)

46. Believing in what soothsayers & astrologers say
Prophet (saw) said, "Whoever goes to fortuneteller and asks him about something will not have his prayer accepted for forty nights" (Sahih al-Jami # 5816)

47. A wife being rebellious to her husband (4: 34)

48. Putting pictures of beings with souls on clothing, curtains, rocks and any other items
Prophet (saw) said, "…the people who will receive the greatest punishment on the day of judgment are those who compete with Allah in creation [those who make pictures or statues]" (sahih al-Jami # 1691)

49. Striking one's self, wailing, tearing one's clothing, pulling one's hair & similar deeds as a form of mourning
Prophet (saw) said, "One who strikes his cheeks or tears his clothing and shouts in the manner of pre-Islamic culture is not one of us" (Sahih al-Jami # 5713)

50. Committing injustice (al-Shura: 42)

51. Being overbearing or taking advantage of the weak, slaves, wives or animals
Prophet (saw) said, "Allah will torture those who torture people in this world" (Muslim)

52. Harming neighbors
Prophet (saw) said, "A person whose neighbor is not safe from his mischief will not enter paradise" (sahih al-Jami # 7002)

53. Harming and abusing Muslims (al-Ahzab: 58)

54. Wearing one's clothes too long, i.e. below the ankles
Prophet (saw) said, "What is below the ankles will be in the hellfire " (Bukhari)

55. Harming the slaves of Allah
Prophet (saw) said that Allah said, "Whoever shows enmity to a slave of Mine (Allah's) I shall be at war with him" (Sahih al-Jami # 1778)

56. Men wearing silk & gold
Prophet (saw) said, "Gold and silk have been permitted for the females of my nation and forbidden for its males" (Sahih al-Jami # 209)
Prophet (saw) said, "Men who wears silk in this world will have no portion [of heavens] in the hereafter" (Muslim)

57. Running away of a slave

58. Sacrificing animals for other than Allah
Prophet (Saw) said, "The one who sacrifices for other than Allah is cursed by Allah" (Sahih al-Jami # 4988)

59. Claiming that somebody is one's father while the claimant knows it is not true
Prophet (saw) said, "One who claims that someone is his father and knows that it is not true will be forbidden of paradise" (Sahih al-Jami # 5865)

60. Arguing or quarreling for show & not seeking the truth
Prophet (saw) said, "Whoever argues in support of something that is wrong and he knows it Allah will be angry with him until he stops" (Sahih al-Jami # 6073)

61. Not allowing excess water to flow to others
Prophet (saw) said, "Whoever doesn't allow the access water or pasture for others will not share in the blessings of Allah on the day of judgment" (Sahih al-Jami # 6436)

62. Not measuring the weights properly (al-Mutafafifeen: 1-3)

63. Thinking that one is safe from Allah's planning (al-Araf: 99)

64. Eating carrion, blood or pork meat (al-Anam: 145)

65. Not praying in the congregation & praying by one's self without a valid excuse
Prophet (saw) said, "Whoever hears the call to prayer and doesn't come to prayer, there is no prayer for him say for the one who has valid excuse" (Sahih al-Jami # 6176)

66. Continually not performing the Friday prayers and congregational prayers without any valid excuse
Prophet (saw) said, "If people don't stop abandoning the Friday Prayers Allah may seal their hearts and they will become headless" (Muslim)

67. Harming others by manipulation one's bequests (4: 12)

68. Being deceitful or deceptive (Fatir: 43)

69. Spying on the Muslims & pointing out their secrets (al-Kalam: 11)

70. Abusing or reviling anyone of the Companions of the Prophet (saw)
Prophet (saw) said, "Do not revile my companions for, by the one in whose hands is my soul, if you were to spend in charity a mountain of gold similar to mount Uhud it would not be equal to a handful or a half a handful (or what they have done)" (Sahih al-Jami # 7187)


Please make sincere repentance to Allah before as Ali (ra) said, "Today is deed without reckoning and tomorrow is reckoning without deeds". Sincere repentance has four conditions :


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Feeling bad for the sin
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Firm commitment in intention not to repeat sin (whether it happens again is not a condition if one tried his best)
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Make repentance to Allah by Du'a and asking or better crying for forgiveness
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If some person has been wronged because of this sin then one needs to make up to this person.
 

NewMuslim

Slave of Allah
:salam2:
JazakAllah Khair to ibn azeem. Just in case he forgot some sins:

NOTE: Taken from http://www.themodernreligion.com/misc/hh/major_sins.htm

01. Associating anything with Allah
02. Murder
03. Practising magic
04. Not Praying
05. Not paying Zakat
06. Not fasting on a Day of Ramadan without excuse
07. Not performing Hajj, while being able to do so
08. Disrespect to parents
09. Abandoning relatives
10. Fornication and Adultery
11. Homosexuality(sodomy)
12. Interest(Riba)
13. Wrongfully consuming the property of an orphan
14. Lying about Allah and His Messenger
15. Running away from the battlefield
16. A leader's deceiving his people and being unjust to them
17. Pride and arrogance
18. Bearing false witness
19. Drinking Khamr (wine)
20. Gambling
21. Slandering chaste women
22. Stealing from the spoils of war
23. Stealing
24. Highway Robbery
25. Taking false oath
26. Oppression
27. Illegal gain
28. Consuming wealth acquired unlawfully
29. Committing suicide
30. Frequent lying
31. Judging unjustly
32. Giving and Accepting bribes
33. Woman's imitating man and man's imitating woman
34. Being cuckold
35. Marrying a divorced woman in order to make her lawful for the husband
36. Not protecting oneself from urine
37. Showing-off
38. Learning knowledge of the religion for the sake of this world and concealing that knowledge
39. Bertrayal of trust
40. Recounting favours
41. Denying Allah's Decree
42. Listening (to) people's private conversations
43. Carrying tales
44. Cursing
45. Breaking contracts
46. Believing in fortune-tellers and astrologers
47. A woman's bad conduct towards her husband
48. Making statues and pictures
49. Lamenting, wailing, tearing the clothing, and doing other things of this sort when an affliction befalls
50. Treating others unjustly
51. Overbearing conduct toward the wife, the servant, the weak, and animals
52. Offending one's neighbour
53. Offending and abusing Muslims
54. Offending people and having an arrogant attitude toward them
55. Trailing one's garment in pride
56. Men's wearing silk and gold
57. A slave's running away from his master
58. Slaughtering an animal which has been dedicated to anyone other than Allah
59. To knowingly ascribe one's paternity to a father other than one's own
60. Arguing and disputing violently
61. Witholding excess water
62. Giving short weight or measure
63. Feeling secure from Allah's Plan
64. Offending Allah's righteous friends
65. Not praying in congregation but praying alone without an excuse
66. Persistently missing Friday Prayers without any excuse
67. Unsurping the rights of the heir through bequests
68. Deceiving and plotting evil
69. Spying for the enemy of the Muslims
70. Cursing or insulting any of the Companiions of Allah's Messenger

Please also note that this site doesn't have them all, neither. It misses things such as delibrately missing the 5 Daily Prayers without a logical excuse (note that you can combine them ONLY with a valid excuse, see the thread in the Lounge about "Do you pray 5 times a day?"). This site also restates the major sin of wearing your pants below your ankles; it instead states "trailing one's garments in pride".

:wasalam:
 

dexter

New Member
in my knowledge

Thanks brothers and sisters and may God bless you all and guide us all...

The greatest of sins, according to a hadith:

To take other gods other than the One All Mighty God

To disobey parents

Zina (illegitimate affair with another sex)

False witnessing

Ofcourse, others like killing a believer willingly, are also included... and what's this discussion forum other than giving, taking and appreciating knowledge, and this was my share...

God bless us all...
 

sky_012

Junior Member
regarding to the list posted i have some questions please take your time to reply and May Allah SWT Forgives me if there is something incorrect in my post

it is obvious for everybody that sins like murder are grave sins and i have read somewhere that if someone kills somebody else , the punishement should be death (or giving money to the family if they accept it)
also, for doing illegal things before marriage, it is explicitely said that the people should be beaten up or stoned ;
so it means if the punishement for these types of sins are explicitely given in quran , is it possible to be forgiven without having experienced the punishement?

because sometimes you read stories like there was a man who killed 100 people and he was forgiven but on the other side there are sins for which the punishement is explicitely given and it is the case for murder or the other sin,

so my question is how is it possible, if it is really possible to be forgiven by repenting without having the punishment ?

are the major sins forgivable?

it is said that disobeying parents is a major sin, but does it count as two sins or as one , like first disobeying parents , and usually when you disobey your parents you do something bad and you disobey Allah SWT also , so does it count as two differnt major sins or one ?

it is also written that cutting blood relations with family is a major sin ; i know in my area two families that are close families and that don't talk to each other ; my firend says even when she says Salam to her female cousins or aunty or uncle, they don't reply ; even if she wants to talk to them again , her parents as well, but they don't want to say sorry explicitely because they say it's not their fault , they want to forget the past and talk again to the otrher family and try to forget everything and start a new family relation again but without saying explicitely sorry , you knw like just forget what happened in the past and talk again , but the otherf aimily they refuse to talk to them again

so who is the sinner , both families or only the family who refuses to talk again ?

when you commit a sin which has become a habbit, does islam allows the concept of "progression " when you want to cure or it is said that the process of curing and leaving the soul doesn't need steps and should be immediate ?

like when you fall into a sin which becomes after an habbit, the process is made progressively , a person for instance strats to lie , and then lies twice etc and then lies all the time, but there was a progression even if it is a descending progression ; so if this person wants to stop but it has become so natural for her to lie all the time and decides to reduce progressively because he can't stops totally in the beginning, is that process acceptable and allowed or when you say it's a sin you should immedialtely stop completely telling lies for instance.....


Jazak Allah in advance for replying

:wassalam:
 

Akilah

Junior Member
Assalam Alaikum

I am so tired that I am going to faint I think:( Inshallah I will come back to this post as soon as i can and try to answer your questions as best I can.
 

anna

Junior Member
:salam2:

jazakallah everyone for the info.
I want to know if for instance someone has committed a major sin ,whats the usual way for the expiation of the sin.I have heard that its a proper procedure one has to follow...is that true?are you supposed to give sadaqa(charity)?
:salam2:
 

subhanallah

Junior Member
Salam aleykom,

Which sins is it that one gets erased for e.g. fasting the day of Arafat or saying "subhanallahi wa bihamdih" a hundred times a day? I know that the major sins can't be forgiven that way, but.. which sins can then? Which sins count as minor sins?

Jazakum allahu kheyra
 

NewMuslim

Slave of Allah
:salam2:
:bismillah:
Insha'Allah I will answer some of you questions.
is it possible to be forgiven without having experienced the punishement?

That's up to Allah whether or not He'll punish you for your sins.

because sometimes you read stories like there was a man who killed 100 people and he was forgiven but on the other side there are sins for which the punishement is explicitely given and it is the case for murder or the other sin,

Intention is what matters a lot to Allah. Was the man killing out of Jihad (because someone attacked him/innocent people first)? Or was the man a pious man all of his life before he did this? Or was the man sincerely sorry afterwards? Or did he do what Allah commanded after killing a man intentionally (to fast for 2 months)?

so my question is how is it possible, if it is really possible to be forgiven by repenting without having the punishment ?
It's all up to Allah.

are the major sins forgivable?
"For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful". Allah can forgive and usually does, but sometimes He doesn't want to.

it is said that disobeying parents is a major sin, but does it count as two sins or as one , like first disobeying parents , and usually when you disobey your parents you do something bad and you disobey Allah SWT also , so does it count as two differnt major sins or one ?

I haven't heard of this issue before, so I'm not sure. But, I would say that it counts as two. Remember though that it's up to Allah.

...so who is the sinner , both families or only the family who refuses to talk again ?

It's up to Allah who will be punished/blamed for the sin. But I see both families as in the wrong. One family is unwilling to compromise for the sake of Allah and won't swallow their pride and say sorry, and the other has cut off blood relations. Remember, this is MY view; Allah will deal with whomever He likes.

when you commit a sin which has become a habbit, does islam allows the concept of "progression " when you want to cure or it is said that the process of curing and leaving the soul doesn't need steps and should be immediate...

"For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful". If she continues to lie and is very sorry for lying, she should sincerely seek Allah's help to stop lying and she should sincerely repent.

:wasalam:
 

NewMuslim

Slave of Allah
Salam aleykom,

Which sins is it that one gets erased for e.g. fasting the day of Arafat or saying "subhanallahi wa bihamdih" a hundred times a day? I know that the major sins can't be forgiven that way, but.. which sins can then? Which sins count as minor sins?

Jazakum allahu kheyra

:wasalam:
:bismillah:
It's up to Allah which sins can be forgiven in which ways. The only thing we can do is to sincerely repent and do good deeds for the sake of worshipping Allah only.
 

NewMuslim

Slave of Allah
:salam2:

jazakallah everyone for the info.
I want to know if for instance someone has committed a major sin ,whats the usual way for the expiation of the sin.I have heard that its a proper procedure one has to follow...is that true?are you supposed to give sadaqa(charity)?
:salam2:

:wasalam:
:bismillah:
Yes, there is a certain way to be forgiven of sins. Look here:
http://www.inter-islam.org/Actions/repent.htm

Remember, also, that Allah "exchanges" sins for good deeds (I think they mention that on the website I gave in this post). So, Sadaqah is a good deed so do it!
:wasalam:
 

Sheba_770

Junior Member
Please Explain?

:salam2:
JazakAllah Khair to ibn azeem. Just in case he forgot some sins:

NOTE: Taken from http://www.themodernreligion.com/misc/hh/major_sins.htm

01. Associating anything with Allah
02. Murder
03. Practising magic
04. Not Praying
05. Not paying Zakat
06. Not fasting on a Day of Ramadan without excuse
07. Not performing Hajj, while being able to do so
08. Disrespect to parents
09. Abandoning relatives
10. Fornication and Adultery
11. Homosexuality(sodomy)
12. Interest(Riba)
13. Wrongfully consuming the property of an orphan
14. Lying about Allah and His Messenger
15. Running away from the battlefield
16. A leader's deceiving his people and being unjust to them
17. Pride and arrogance
18. Bearing false witness
19. Drinking Khamr (wine)
20. Gambling
21. Slandering chaste women
22. Stealing from the spoils of war
23. Stealing
24. Highway Robbery
25. Taking false oath
26. Oppression
27. Illegal gain
28. Consuming wealth acquired unlawfully
29. Committing suicide
30. Frequent lying
31. Judging unjustly
32. Giving and Accepting bribes
33. Woman's imitating man and man's imitating woman
34. Being cuckold
35. Marrying a divorced woman in order to make her lawful for the husband
36. Not protecting oneself from urine
37. Showing-off
38. Learning knowledge of the religion for the sake of this world and concealing that knowledge
39. Bertrayal of trust
40. Recounting favours
41. Denying Allah's Decree
42. Listening (to) people's private conversations
43. Carrying tales
44. Cursing
45. Breaking contracts
46. Believing in fortune-tellers and astrologers
47. A woman's bad conduct towards her husband
48. Making statues and pictures
49. Lamenting, wailing, tearing the clothing, and doing other things of this sort when an affliction befalls
50. Treating others unjustly
51. Overbearing conduct toward the wife, the servant, the weak, and animals
52. Offending one's neighbour
53. Offending and abusing Muslims
54. Offending people and having an arrogant attitude toward them
55. Trailing one's garment in pride
56. Men's wearing silk and gold
57. A slave's running away from his master
58. Slaughtering an animal which has been dedicated to anyone other than Allah
59. To knowingly ascribe one's paternity to a father other than one's own
60. Arguing and disputing violently
61. Witholding excess water
62. Giving short weight or measure
63. Feeling secure from Allah's Plan
64. Offending Allah's righteous friends
65. Not praying in congregation but praying alone without an excuse
66. Persistently missing Friday Prayers without any excuse
67. Unsurping the rights of the heir through bequests
68. Deceiving and plotting evil
69. Spying for the enemy of the Muslims
70. Cursing or insulting any of the Companiions of Allah's Messenger

Please also note that this site doesn't have them all, neither. It misses things such as delibrately missing the 5 Daily Prayers without a logical excuse (note that you can combine them ONLY with a valid excuse, see the thread in the Lounge about "Do you pray 5 times a day?"). This site also restates the major sin of wearing your pants below your ankles; it instead states "trailing one's garments in pride".

:wasalam:
Salam aleykum'
can you please explain to me 34 35 36
thank you
 
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