1. Associating partners with Allah
(Shirk)
- Great Shirk: worshipping beings other
than Allah (proof all over Quran)
- Small Shirk: Riya
The Prophet (PBUH), "Should I not
inform you of that which I fear for you even more than the dangers of Dajjal? 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. Withholding the Zakat (Charity) (3:
180)
6. Breaking the fast of Ramadhan or not
fasting in that month without a valid excuse.
Prophet (PBUH) said, "Islam 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 zakat, 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 (PBUH) said, "Allah 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 Allah
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 (PBUH) 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 (PBUH) 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 zakat, 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 (PBUH) 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 (PBUH) 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 (PBUH)
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 (PBUH) said, "Abusing a Muslim
is evil and fighting him is disbelief" (Sahih al-Jami # 3598)
45. Not fulfilling one's promises
Prophet (PBUH) 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 (PBUH) 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 (PBUH) 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 (PBUH) 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 (PBUH) said, "Allah will
torture those who torture people in this world" (Muslim)
52. Harming neighbors
Prophet (PBUH) 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 (PBUH) said, "What is below
the ankles will be in the hellfire " (Bukhari)
55. Harming the slaves of Allah
Prophet (PBUH) 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 (PBUH) said, "Gold and silk
have been permitted for the females of my nation and forbidden for its males" (Sahih
al-Jami # 209)
Prophet (PBUH) said, "Men who wears
silk in this world will have no portion [of heavens] in the hereafter" (Muslim)
57. Running away of a slave
Prophet (PBUH) said, "If a slave runs
away, his prayers will not be accepted" (Sahih al-Jami # 257)
58. Sacrificing animals for other than
Allah
Prophet (PBUH) 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 (PBUH) 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 (PBUH) 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 (PBUH) 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 (PBUH) 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 (PBUH) 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 (PBUH)
Prophet (PBUH) 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:
- Feeling bad for the sin.
- Firm commitment in intention not to
repeat sin (whether it happens again is not a condition if one tried his best).
- Make repentance to Allah by Du'a and
asking or better crying for forgiveness.
- If some person has been wronged because
of this sin then one needs to make up to this person.
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