AL- Kaba’ir Major Sins
- Associating partners with Allaah (Shirk)
Great Shirk: worshipping beings other than Allaah
(proof all over Qur’ân)
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)
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Committing murder: (Furqan; 68)
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Performing Sorcery (2: 102)
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Not performing the Prayers (Maryam: 59)
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With holding the Zakah (Charity) (3: 180)
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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)
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Not performing the pilgrimage when one has the
ability to do so (above hadith) -
Disobeying one’s parents (al-Isra: 23)
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Cutting off the ties of relationships (Muhammad:
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Committing adultery or fornication (al-Isra: 30)
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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)
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Taking or paying interest (2: 275)
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Devouring the wealth of orphans (4:10)
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Forging statements concerning Allaah or forging
Hadith (al-Zumar: 60) -
Fleeing from the battle (al-Anfal: 16)
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Wrongdoing, deception or oppression on the part of
the ruler (al-Shura: 42) -
Being arrogant, boastful, vain (al-Nahl: 23)
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Giving false testimony (al-Furqan: 72)
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Drinking alcoholic beverages (5: 90)
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Gambling (5: 90)
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Slandering innocent women (al-Nur: 23)
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Misappropriating something from the booty (3:161)
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Stealing (5:38)
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Committing highway robbery (5: 33)
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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)
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Committing oppression (al-Shuara: 277)
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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)
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Consuming forbidden wealth or taking it by any
means (2: 188) -
Committing suicide (4: 29)
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Being a perpetual liar (3: 61)
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Ruling by laws other than the laws of Islam (5:
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Engaging in bribery (2: 188)
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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)
- 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)
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Marrying for the purpose of making a woman
allowable for another (Baqarah) -
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)
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Acting for show (al-Maoon: 4-6)
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Acquiring knowledge only for worldly gain or
concealing knowledge (2: 160) -
Breaching trusts (al-Anfal: 27)
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Reminding people of one’s kindness (2: 27)
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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)
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Eavesdropping on other’s private conversation
(Hujarat: 12) -
Spreading harmful tales (al-Qamar: 10)
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Cursing others
Prophet (saw) said, “Abusing a Muslim is evil and
fighting him is disbelief” (Sahih al-Jami # 3598)
- 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)
- 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)
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A wife being rebellious to her husband (4: 34)
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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)
- 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)
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Committing injustice (al-Shura: 42)
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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)
- Harming neighbors
Prophet (saw) said, “A person whose neighbor is not
safe from his mischief will not enter paradise” (sahih
al-Jami # 7002)
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Harming and abusing Muslims (al-Ahzab: 58)
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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)
- 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)
- 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)
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Running away of a slave
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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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
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Not measuring the weights properly
(al-Mutafafifeen: 1-3) -
Thinking that one is safe from Allah’s planning
(al-Araf: 99) -
Eating carrion, blood or pork meat (al-Anam: 145)
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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)
- 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)
- Harming others by manipulation one’s bequests (4:
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Being deceitful or deceptive (Fatir: 43)
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Spying on the Muslims & pointing out their secrets
(al-Kalam: 11) -
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 :
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.
