Table of contents
- Introduction
- Shirk: associating partners in worship with Allah
- Grave-worship
- Sacrificing to anything other than Allah
- Allowing what Allah has forbidden and forbidding what Allah has allowed
- Magic, fortune-telling and divination
- Astrology or believing that the stars and planets have an influence on people’s lives and events
- Believing that certain things can bring benefit when the Creator has not made them so
- Showing off in worship
- Superstitious belief in omens
- Swearing by something other than Allah
- Sitting with hypocrites and wrongdoers to enjoy their company or to keep them company
- Lack of composure in prayer
- Fidgeting and making unnecessary movements in prayer
- Deliberately anticipating the movements of the imam (when praying in congregation)
- Coming to the mosque after eating onions or garlic, or anything that has an offensive smell
- Zina - fornication and adultery
- Sodomy (homosexuality)
- Not allowing one’s husband to have marital relations for no legitimate reason
- Asking one’s husband for a divorce for no legitimate reason
- Al-Zihaar
- Having intercourse with one’s wife during her period
- Having intercourse with one's wife in her rectum
- Not treating co-wives fairly
- Being alone with a non-mahram woman
- Shaking hands with a non-mahram woman
- A woman wearing perfume when going out or passing by non-mahram men
- A woman travelling without a mahram
- Deliberately looking at a non-mahram woman
- Seeing one’s womenfolk behaving in an immoral fashion and keeping silent
- Making false claims about a child’s lineage, or denying one’s own child
- Consuming riba (usury or interest)
- Concealing a product’s faults at the time of sale
- Artificially inflating prices
- Trading after the second call to prayer on Friday
- Gambling
- Theft
- Offering or accepting bribes
- Seizing land by force
- Accepting a gift in return for interceding
- Hiring someone and benefitting from his labor, then not paying him his wages
- Not giving gifts equally to one’s children
- Asking people for money when one is not in need
- Seeking a loan with no intention of repaying it
- Consuming haram wealth
- Drinking khamr - even a single drop
- Using vessels of gold and silver, or eating or drinking from them
- Bearing false witness
- Listening to music and musical instruments
- Gossip and backbiting
- Slander
- Looking into people’s houses without their permission
- Two people conversing privately to the exclusion of a third
- Isbaal - wearing clothes that come down below the ankles
- Men wearing gold in any shape or form
- Women wearing short, tight or see-through clothes
- Wearing wigs and hairpieces, whether made from natural or artificial hair, for men and women
- Men resembling women and women resembling men, in dress, speech and appearance
- Dyeing one’s hair black
- Having pictures of animate beings on clothing, walls or paper, etc.
- Lying about one’s dreams
- Sitting or walking on graves, or answering the call of nature in a graveyard
- Not cleaning oneself properly after passing water
- Eavesdropping on people who do not want to be heard
- Being a bad neighbor
- Writing a will for the purpose of harming one of the heirs
- Playing backgammon
- Cursing a believer or someone who does not deserve to be cursed
- Wailing (at time of bereavement)
- Striking or branding the face
- Abandoning a Muslim brother for more than three days with no legitimate reason
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