Asalam o Alikum
Last
week by the grace of Allah I got some time to read a book named as
"Al-Kabair" Major Sins. I read the book translated in Urdu from Imam
Shams ud deen Dhahabi's book "Al-Kabair". After reading the book I
feel that I should share it with you all, at least the titles of each sin so
that we can save our self from them or in case if God forbid we became the
victim then we can do the Tauba.
I
am only listing titles here, the book includes detailed definitions of each
title with relevant evidences from Quran versus and Sahih Ahadees. Please check
the links below for detailed book available online in English OR do contact me
for a hard copy (only for readingJ).
http://attahawi.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/al-kaba-ir-imam-dhahabi.pdf
Note: Everything mentioned below is from different online
resources with reference to the same book and I also verified it with the printed
copy that I have with me.
Definition:
Major sins are
defined as what is forbidden by Allah and His Messenger in the Qur'an and the Sunnah
in addition to what is narrated on the authority of early Muslims. Allah,
the Most high, promises whoever avoids the major sins to expiate his minor
sins.
Scholars
of Sacred knowledge are of different opinions about the number of the major
sins. It is argued that they are only seven owing to the Prophet's (pbuh)
saying,
"Avoid the seven heinous sins:
Worshipping others with Allah, sorcery, taking a life which Allah has made
sacred except in the course of justice, devouring usury, appropriating the
property of the orphan, fleeing from the battlefield, and charging believing
women, unmindful though innocent, with adultery.”
Reported by Muslim, TirmijJhi, Ibn
Khuzaymah and Ahmed.
Abdullah
Ibn Abbas holds that they are likely counted as seventy not seven. That is a
good point of view because enumeration is not intended in the Hadith.
As a
matter of fact, any sin entailing either a threat of punishment in the
Hereafter explicitly mentioned by the Qur'an or Hadith, a prescribed
legal penalty (Hadd), or being accursed by Allah or His Messenger (pbuh)
is called a major sin. We have to bear in mind that some major sins are most
heinous than another. This is because the Prophet (pbuh) has enlisted Shirk
(worshipping others with Allah) though a polytheist will suffer eternal torture
in Fire and will never be forgiven.
Major Sins:
(Find Image in Urdu below)
1. Ascribing Associates To Allah, The Most
High (Shirk)
2. Killing A Human Being
3. Sorcery
4. Not Performing the Prayer
5. Not Paying Zakat
6. Breaking One's Fast During Ramadan Without
an Excuse
7. Not Performing the Hajj When Able to
8. Showing Disrespect to One's Parents
9. Severing the Ties of One's Relatives
10. Adultery
11. Sodomy
12. Accepting Usurious Gain
13. Wrong Consuming an Orphan's Property
14. Lying About the Prophet
15. Fleeing From the Battlefield
16. The Leader Who Misleads His Followers, the
Tyrant and the Oppressor
17. Arrogance, Pride, Conceit, Vanity and
Haughtiness
18. Bearing False Witness
19. Drinking Alcohol
20. Gambling (Qimar)
21. Accusing a Woman of Adultery
22. Misappropriating Spoils of War, Muslim Funds
or Zakat
23. Theft
24. Highwaymen Who Menace the Road
25. The Engulfing Oath
26. Taking People's Property Through Falsehood
27. Collecting Taxes
28. The Consumption of Haram
29. Suicide
30. Telling Lies
31. The Dishonest Judge
32. Bribery
33. Women Imitating Men and Vice Versa
34. The Pimp and the One Who Permits His Wife
To Fornicate
35. Marrying Solely to Return to the Previous
Husband
36. Not Freeing Oneself of All Traces of Urine
37. Showing off in Good Work
38. Learning Sacred Knowledge for the Sake of
this World or Concealing It
39. Breach of Faith
40. Reminding Recipients of One's Charity to
Them
41. Disbelieving in Destiny
42. Listening to the People's Private
Conversations
43. The Talebearer Who Stirs Up Enmity Between
People
44. Cursing Others
45. Breaking One's Promise or Pledge
46. Believing Fortunetellers and Astrologers
47. A Wife's Rebellion Against Her Husband
48. Picture-making
49. Loudly Lamenting For the Dead or When
Afflicted With an Adversity
50. Excess Against Others
51. Overburdening and Arrogance Against Others
52. Hurting One's Neighbor
53. Hurting or Reviling Muslims
54. Harming the Servants of Allah
55. Dragging the Hem of One's Garment Out of
Conceit
56. Men Wearing Silk or Gold
57. Fleeing of the Slave
58. Slaughtering in Other Than Allah's Name
59. Falsely Claiming Someone is One's Father
60. Arguing, Picking Apart Another's Words,
and Quarreling
61. Withholding Excess Water From Others
62. Stinting When Weighing or Measuring Out
Goods and Similar Merchandise
63. Feeling Secure From Allah's Devising
64. Despairing of the Mercy of Allah and
Losing of Hope
65. Forgoing the Congregational Prayer to Pray
Alone Without A Legal Excuse
66. Constantly Missing the Friday and
Congregational Prayer Without A Valid Excuse
67. Bringing Loss to the Bequest
68. Deception and Evil Schemes
69. Spying on the Muslims and Revealing Their
Weaknesses
70. Disparaging the Companions of the Prophet
71. Mark out and animal face.
72. Having food in Silver and Gold plates.
73. Having Meat of Dead animal OR Pork
74. Leak confidential information of Muslims.
75. Judge who knowingly take wrong decisions.
76. Remove the directions.
77. Violation within the boundaries of
Harmain.
78. Calling peoples towards wrong deeds/
directions.
79. Pointing toward Muslims with any sort of
Weapon.
