Class 9
MAJOR SINS
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 ﷺ is called a major sin. We have to bear in mind that some major sins are most heinous than another. Like Shirk is the worst of them all.
We are obliged to learn about what the major sins are, so that Muslims may avoid them.
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. Allah, the Almighty says,
“If ye (but) eschew the most heinous of the things which ye are forbidden to do, we shall remit your evil deeds, and admit you to a gate of great honour.” (An-Nisaa :31)
Also the Prophet ﷺ said, “The five prescribed Prayers, and from one Friday Prayer to another and from Ramadan to another entail forgiveness for what is between them as long as you do not commit the major sins.” Reported by Muslim, Tirmidhi, Ibn Khuzaymah and Ahmed.
We enlist below the 70 Major Sins mentioned in the book “Al Kaba’ir (Major Sins)” by “Imam Shamsu ed-Deen Dhahabi”
Ascribing Associates To Allah, The Most High (Shirk)
Murder (Killing someone innocent)
Magic / Sorcery
Not Performing the Prayer
Not Paying Zakat
Breaking One’s Fast During Ramadan Without an Excuse
Not Performing the Hajj When Able to***
Showing Disrespect to One’s Parents
Severing the Ties of One’s Relatives
Adultery
Sodomy
Riba / Usury
Wrongly Consuming an Orphan’s Property
Lying About the Prophet – the Prophet ﷺ said, “Whoever relates something from me I have not said shall take a place for himself in Hell.” (Bukhari & Muslim)
Fleeing From the Battlefield
The Leader Who Misleads His Followers, the Tyrant and the Oppressor
Arrogance, Pride, Conceit, Vanity and Haughtiness
Bearing False Witness
Drinking Alcohol
Gambling
Accusing a Woman of Adultery / Slandering a Chaste Woman
Misappropriating Spoils of War, Muslim Funds or Zakat
Theft
Highwaymen Who Menace the Road
The Engulfing Oath – Swearing falsely to gain possession.
Taking People’s Property Through Falsehood
Collecting Maks (Taxes)***
The Consumption of Haram
Suicide
Telling Lies***
The Dishonest Judge
Bribery
Women Imitating Men and Vice Versa
The Pimp and the One Who Permits His Wife To Fornicate
Marrying Solely to Return to the Previous Husband
Not Freeing Oneself of All Traces of Urine
Showing off in Good Work
Learning Sacred Knowledge for the Sake of this World or Concealing It
Breach of Faith
Reminding Recipients of One’s Charity to Them
Disbelieving in Destiny
Listening to the People’s Private Conversations
The Talebearer Who Stirs Up Enmity Between People
Cursing Others
Breaking One’s Promise or Pledge
Believing Fortune-tellers and Astrologers
A Wife’s Rebellion Against Her Husband
Picture-making
Loudly Lamenting For the Dead or When Afflicted With an Adversity
Excess (Transgress) Against Others
Overburdening and Arrogance Against Others
Hurting One’s Neighbor
Hurting or Reviling Muslims
Harming the Servants of Allah
Dragging the Hem of One’s Garment Out of Conceit
Men Wearing Silk or Gold
Fleeing of the Slave
Slaughtering in Other Than Allah’s Name
Falsely Claiming Someone is One’s Father
Unrightfully Arguing, Picking Apart Another’s Words, and Quarreling
Withholding Excess Water From Others
Stinting When Weighing or Measuring Out Goods and Similar Merchandise
Feeling Secure From Allah’s Devising
Despairing of the Mercy of Allah and Losing of Hope
Forgoing the Congregational Prayer to Pray Alone Without A Legal Excuse – The Prophet ﷺ said, “I have considered having a man lead people at prayer and going myself to those who stay back from attending the congregational prayer to bum their houses down upon them..”
Constantly Missing the Friday and Congregational Prayer Without A Valid Excuse
Bringing Loss to the Bequest – Not distributing Wealth to heirs according to the Laws set by Allah.by preventing a heir to get their right
Deception and Evil Schemes
Spying on the Muslims and Revealing Their Weaknesses
Disparaging the Companions of the Prophet
7. Not Performing the Hajj When Able to
Whoever is able to do Hajj and does not do the obligatory Hajj, delaying it for no reason, has committed a great evil and a major sin. What he has to do is to repent to Allaah from that and hasten to do Hajj, because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “And Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah) to the House (Ka‘bah) is a duty that mankind owes to Allaah, those who can afford the expenses (for one’s conveyance, provision and residence); and whoever disbelieves [i.e. denies Hajj (pilgrimage to Makkah), then he is a disbeliever of Allaah], then Allaah stands not in need of any of the ‘Aalameen (mankind, jinn and all that exists)” [Aal ‘Imraan 3:97]
Ali (RA) narrated that Allah’s Messenger ﷺ said: “He who possess enough food for the trip, a means of transportation to reach to Makkah, and yet does not perform Hajj, then he dies, he would then die as a Jew or a Christian. This is because Allah says,”Pilgrimage thereto is a duty men owe to Allah -those who can afford the journey.” [Sunan Tirmidhi & Bayhaqi]
27. Collecting Maks
Maks is a kind of tax and refers to money that was taken from vendors in the market-places during the Jaahiliyyah, or taken from merchants when they passed through. (See ‘Awn al-Ma’bood, hadeeth no. 2548). This tax is one of the major sins, because the Prophet ﷺ said, concerning the woman who had committed zina (adultery), then came to the Prophet ﷺ so that the hadd punishment might be carried out on her, “By the one in Whose hand is my soul, she has repented in such a way that if the one who wrongfully takes the maks from people had repented like this, he would have been forgiven.” (Narrated by Muslim, 3208). Al-Nawawi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said in Sharh Saheeh Muslim (11/203): “This shows that the maks is one of the most evil of sins and actions that condemn a man to Hell.”
30. Telling Lies
Allah Most High states,
“Then let us earnestly pray and invoke the curse of Allah on those who lie!” (Al-‘Imran: 61)
“Cursed be the conjecturers (the liars).” (Al-Dhariyat: 10)
On the authority of Ibn Mas’ud (may Allah be pleased with him), “the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Adhere firmly to truthfulness for truthfulness surely leads to righteousness and righteousness leads to Paradise, and a man is recorded with Allah as a sincere one as long as he is truthful. However, lying leads to immorality and immorality leads to the Hell-Fire, and a man is recorded with Allah as a liar as long as he lies.” (Bukhari & Muslim)
He ﷺ also said, “Three are the signs of the hypocrite, even if he prays, fasts, and pretends to be a Muslim: When he talks, he lies; when he makes a promise he breaks it; and when he is given a trust, he betrays it” (Bukhari & Muslim)
AI-Bukhari reported in his Sahih the following hadith on the authority of Samarah Ibn Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him): “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to ask, “Did anyone of you see a dream?” So those whom Allah wished to tell would narrate dreams to him. One morning the Prophet ﷺsaid, “Last night two persons came to me in a dream and woke me up and said to me, ‘Proceed!’ I set out with them… And we came to a man laying flat on his back and another man standing over his head with an iron hook, and behold, he would put the hook in one side of man’s mouth and tear off that side of his face to the back of the neck and similarly tear his nose from front to back and his eyes from front to back. Then he turned to the other side of the man’s face and did just as he had done with the other side. He hardly completed this side when the other side returned to its normal state. Then he returned to repeat what he had done before. I said to my two companions, ‘Glory be to Allah! Who are these two persons?’… They said, ‘This man is the symbol of the person who goes out of his house in the morning and tells so many lies that it spreads all over the world.‘”
Allah’s Messenger ﷺ also said, “The believer may be naturally disposed to any shortcoming except treachery and lying.” (Bukhari)
Those who wish to read all the references and details about all the listed sins can download the book 70 MAJOR SINS from https://islamhouse.com/en/books/386056/
SubhaanAllah, there are some listed here which are so common amongst us now and we don’t realise that they are considered as Major sins, we don’t even think twice about them. May Allah forgive us all and give us the Hidayah to set our affairs right.
TIPS FOR THE TEST
Do not have to memorise the ayahs or hadeeths word for word and their references, but remember their meanings and the msg being given.
Remember the sins and their punishments
ASSIGNMENT
There will be an Assignment Question asked in the Test. Marks will be given based on the following: -
Talk to at least 3 people about any 3 commonly spread sins and remind them of it. 6 Marks.
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Pray for the Ummah, pray for the ease of all the poor & oppressed Muslims and Maghfirah of the Muslims who passed away. Pray that Allah make us all strong in imaan and give us the hidayah to work for the aakhirah and to help each other. - 1 Mark
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