The Qur'an also states,
{Then it is to be expected of you, if ye were put in authority, that ye will do mischief in the land, and break your ties of kith and kin: Such are the men whom Allah has cursed for He has made them deaf and blinded their sight.} (Muhammad: 22-23)
The Prophet (pbuh) said,
"He who severs his family ties will not enter Paradise.” (Bukhari & Muslim)
Thus, whoever abandons his relatives, is proud over them and disdains to support the needy if he is rich is included in this punishment unless he repents to Allah the Most Exalted and treats them well.
But whoever is poor should keep good terms with them, visit them and be heedful of them.
The Prophet also said,
"Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day should have a link with his kins.” (Bukhari)
"A person who reciprocates in doing good is not the one who joins his blood relations generously,' but he is one who joins with his blood relations when they cut with him.” (Bukhari)
"Allah Almighty says, "I am the Merciful and it is the womb i.e. blood relation. I will hold by him who hold by it; and I will cut asunder from him who cuts asunder from it.” (Tirmidhi)
10) ADULTERY
Allah, the Almighty, says,
{Nor come near to adultery: for it is an indecent (deed) and an evil way.} (Al-Isra': 32)
Allah, the Most High, says,
{The woman and the man guilty of fornication, flog each of them with a hundred stripes: Let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day: And let a party of the believers witness their punishment.” (An-Nur: 2)
The punishment mentioned in the last verse concerns only single fornicators in the world as argued by the scholars. In case of married adulterers (even if they experienced marriage before) they must be stoned until death as postulated by the Prophet (pbuh). But if they escaped the worldly punishment and died without making repentance, they will be tortured in the Hell-Fire with lashes of Fire.
The following hadith was stated by the Prophet (pbuh),
"An adulterer is not a believer at the time of committing adultery.” (Bukhari Muslim)
11) SODOMY
Allah, Most High recounts in His Book the story of Lut's people in several positions. Allah, the Almighty says,
{When Our decree issued, We turned (the cities) upside down, and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay, spread, layer on layer, marked from thy Lord; nor are they ever far from those who do wrong!"} (Hud: 82-83)
This abode is not far from those who do wrong amongst our nation if they committed the same sin. Therefore, the Prophet (pbuh) said,
"What I fear most is that my nation may follow the crime of Lut's people.” (Tirmidhi)
The Prophet also said,
"May Allah curse him who does what Lut's people did.” (Tirmidhi)
It was related that the Prophet (pbuh) said,
"Whoever is caught doing the crime of Lut's people, you should kill the one who sodomizes and the one who lets it be done to him.” (Tirmidhi)
12) ACCEPTING USURIOUS GAIN (Riba)
The Qur'an states,
{Those who devour usury will not stand except as stands one whom the Satan by his touch hath driven to madness that is because they say, 'trade is like usury, " but Allah has permitted trade and forbidden usury.} (AI-Baqarah: 275)
On the Day of Judgement they will be resurrected from their graves swerving like he who is seized by Satan owing to what they devoured of usury that grew in their stomachs to such an extent that they would hardly be able to move. Whenever they move they fall and cannot hasten their steps like all other people. Qatada said, "On Qatada said, "On the Day of Judgement the usurer will be resurrected mad. Thus, all the people in the assembly will be able to identify them easily."
The Prophet (pbuh) said,
"When I was transported from the Sacred House (of Mecca) to the farthest Mosque (of Jerusalem), I passed by some people whose bellies were protruding forward. Their bellies were as huge as houses, stretching along the way of Pharaoh's people. On the other hand, the Pharaoh's people have to be brought in front of Fire at morning and evening. Like defeated camels, deaf and mad, the people of Pharaoh used to pass by them. Feeling them coming, they attempted to keep aside but their bellies were so heavy that they could not leave and they in turn, were trodden by them. This is re-occurred in their coming and going every day. That is their lot of torture in the period of the Barrier (AI-Barzakh) up to the Last day. The Prophet asked, "Who are they, Gabriel?" He replied, "They are those who devour usury will not stand except as stands one whom the Satan, by his touch, hath driven to madness.” (Bukhari)
Abdur-Rahman Ibn Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud said,
"When usury and fornication appear in a community, the people of that community render themselves deserving of the punishment of Allah.” (Al Hakim)
Muslims around the world traditionally avoid eating pork and alcohol, whereas, Riba is considered much worse than that. The Prophet (pbuh) declared consumption of Riba worse than adultery: worse than “to a man committing adultery with his own mother” (Ibn Majah)
Ibn Mas'ud, may Allah be pleased with him, said, "When indebting someone, you should not accept his gift since it is usury." Moreover, AI-Hasan, may Allah be pleased with him, regarded what you ate in your indebted house as Suht (taking of usury or bribes.)
13) WRONGLY CONSUMING AN ORPHAN’S PROPERTY
Allah, the Most High, says,
{Those who unjustly eat up the property of orphans eat up fire into their own bodies: they will soon be enduring a blazing fire.} (Al-Nisa': 10)
The Qur'an also states,
{Come not nigh to the orphan's property except to improve it, until he attains the age of full strength.}
(Al-Imran: 152)
The Prophet (pbuh) said,
"When I was taken up in Ascent (Mi'raj) I saw some men gapping their jaws under the coercion of other men. Then came another man who fed them stones of fire that penetrated their bodies and came out from their anus. I wondered: 'Who are they, Gabriel?' He replied, 'They are those who unjustly eat up the property of orphans eat up a fire intotheir bodies.” (Muslim)
Scholars said that there is no harm if a poor guardian of an orphan consumes some of his charge's property without exceeding what is permissible as much as he disposes and improves his business affairs. What is in excess of the permissible is absolutely unlawful.
14) LYING ABOUT THE PROPHET (S.A.W.)
Allah, the Most High, says,
{On the Day of Judgement will thou see those who told lies against Allah;- their faces will be turned black: is there not in Hell an abode for the Haughty?} (Az-Zummar: 60)
AI-Hasan said commenting on this ayah that: they are those who say, if we want to do something we do it but if we do not want to do it we do not.
Ibn AI-Jawziy said when interpreting the above ayah: Some scholars hold that lying about Allah and His Prophet (pbuh) is unbelief that puts one beyond the pale of Islam. There is no doubt that a premeditated lie against Allah and His Messenger that declares something which is unlawful to be permissible or something permissible to be unlawful is pure unbelief. The question (as to when it is a major sin rather than outright unbelief) only concerns lies about other than that.
It was related that the Prophet (pbuh) said,
"Whoever relates something from me I have not said shall take a place for himself in Hell.” (Bukhari & Muslim)
The Prophet also said,
"Whoever intentionally lies about me shall take a place for himself in Hell.”(Bukhari)
This is a very commonly seen these days, people will argue and just to prove their point they will say anything and say it is a Hadeeth. SubhaanAllah!
We ask Allah to guide and protect us; He is the Most Generous.
15) FLEEING FROM THE BATTLEFIELD
Unless enemies outnumber twofold of Muslims, a Muslim is not allowed to turn his back to them. Similarly, unless it is in a stratagem of war, or to retreat to a troop (of his own), a Muslim also is forbidden to flee from the battlefield. Allah the Almighty says,
{1f any do turn hi; back to them on such a day -unless it be in a stratagem of war, or to retreat to a troop (of his own) he draws on himself the wrath of Allah, and his abode is Hell, -an evil refuge (indeed).} (Al-Anfal: 16)
As shared earlier Prophet (S.A.W.) said, “Avoid the seven destroyer’s, and He S.A.W. metioned “fleeing from the battlefield” in it.
16) THE LEADER WHO MISLEADS HIS FOLLOWERS, THE TYRANT & THE OPPRESSOR
Allah, the Almighty says,
{The blame is only against those who Oppress men with wrong-doing and insolently transgress beyond bounds through the land defying right and justice: for such there will be a chastisement grievous.} (AI-Shura: 42)
The Qur'an also states,
{Think not that Allah doth heed the deeds of those who do wrong. He but giveth them respect against a Day when the eyes will fixedly stare in horror, they running forward with necks outstretched, their heads uplifted; their gaze returning not towards them, and their hearts a (gaping) void!} (Ibrahim: 42-43)
Now let us consider the following hadiths:
"He who deceives us is not of us." (Bukhari)
"Oppression will be darkness on the Day of Judgment.” (Bukhari & Muslim)
"All of you are trustees and each is responsible for those entrusted to his care.” (Bukhari& Muslim)
"Any superior who misrules his followers shall go to Hell.” (Muslim)
"If a person who is appointed in authority over people, does not look after the people (placed under his care) with goodwill and sincerity, he will not get even the aroma of paradise.” (Muslim)
"Every governor will be seized on the day of Judgement in front of the Hell-Fire. From the back of his head he will be held by an angel. The angel, then, raises his head before Allah (a warning for His command). Being commanded to throw him, only after forty will the governor reach the bottom of a vacuum.” (Ahmed)
Of the Prophet's supplication is that,
"0 Allah! When a person who is placed in authority over my Ummah (people) is strict with them, be Thou also strict with him, and when such a person is kind on them, be Thou also kind on him. (Muslim)
"There will come corrupt, tyrannical rulers: whoever confirms their lies and assists them in their oppression is not of me, nor I of him, and shall not meet me at my watering place in Paradise.”
17) ARROGANCE, PRIDE, CONCEIT, VANITY & HAUGHTINESS
Allah, Most High, says,
{Moses said, "I have indeed called upon my Lord and your Lord (for protection) from every arrogant one who believes not in the Day of Account.} (Ghafir: 27)
{Verily He loveth not the arrogant.} (An-Nahl: 23)
The Prophet (pbuh) said,
"Once a man was walking along in a new set of clothes, with a swagger to his step, pleased with himself, Allah caused the earth to swallow him and he will keep sinking until the Last Day.”(Tirmidhi)
Arrogance, as early Muslims said, was the first fault against Allah.
Allah, the Almighty, says,
{And behold, we said to the angels: bow down to Adam: and they bowed down: not so Iblis: he refused and was haughty: he was of those who reject Faith} (AI-Baqarah: 34)
Therefore, Faith is of no avail if arrogance exists, as is Iblis.
The Messenger (pbuh) said,
"Arrogance is belittling to admit the truth and considering people inferior.” (Muslim)
"No one with the slightest particle of arrogance in his heart will enter Paradise.” (Bukhari)
Allah, the Almighty, says, "Pride is My garment and haughtiness My Mantle: whoever vies with Me for them I will throw into Hell.”(Muslim)
"A debate took place between heaven and hell. The latter said; in me shall enter tyrant and the arrogant people: while heaven said, "In me shall enter the weak and the lowly..." (Bukhari)
Salama Ibn Al-Akwa' recounted that a man was eating with his left hand in the presence of the Prophet
(pbuh). The Prophet told him, "Eat with your right. " To which the man replied, "/ cannot." Though nothing stopped him but arrogance.
The Prophet said,' "May you not be able to " And the man could never lift his right hand to his mouth again.” (Ahmad)
The wickedest arrogance is that of someone who exalts himself over people of his learning and gloats to himself about his superiority. The knowledge of such person is of absolutely no benefit to him. Whoever learns sacred knowledge for the sake of the next world is unsettled by his learning, his heart is humbled and his ego lowered. Such a person lies in wait for his selfishness and never gives it free rein. He constantly takes his ego to task and corrects it. Were he to neglect it, it would diverge from the right path and destroy him. The person who seeks knowledge to take pride in it or gain a position of leadership, looking disdainfully at other Muslims, thinking them fools and making light to them all this is the most enormous arrogance and no one with the slightest particle of arrogance in his heart will enter Paradise.
There is no power nor might save in Allah Most High, Most Glorious.
18) BEARING FALSE WITNESS
AIIah, Most High says;
{Those who witness no falsehood and if they pass by futility, they pass by it with honorable (avoidance)} (AI-Furqan: 72)
It was narrated that,
"Bearing false witness is mentioned twice as equal as associating others with Allah (in the Qur'an)"1
The Prophet (pbuh) said,
"On the Day of Judgement, the feet of the person who bore false witness will not stir from their place before their owner is condemned to Hell.”(Ibn Majah)
The author (may Allah have mercy on him) said that the one who bore false witness has committed many major sins among which is:
(a) Lying and false allegation.
(b) He oppressed the one who bore witness against him as he appropriated his property, honor and soul.
(c) He oppressed the one who bore witness for him as he brought unlawful property to him and thus made him entail the Hell-Fire."
(d) He made what Allah forbids of property, blood and honor permissible.
19) DRINKING ALCOHOL
Allah, Most High says,
{O ye who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, sacrificing to stones and (divination by) arrows, is an abomination, of Satan's handiwork: Eschew such (abomination) that ye may prosper. Satan's plan is (but) to excite enmity and hatred between you, with intoxicants and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allah, and from Prayer: will ye not then abstain?} (Al-Ma'idah: 90-91)
Thus, Allah the Exalted forbids wine and warns us of approaching it.
The Prophet (pbuh) said, "A void wine, it is the mother of abomination. "(An Nisa’ai)
Therefore, if anyone does not avoid it, he then disobeys Allah and His Messenger and thus entails punishment.
Ibn 'Abbas related that, "When the wine was forbidden, the companions (of the Prophet) met each other and said, The wine was forbidden and became equal to polytheism (Shirk)." (Al Hakim)
'Abdullah Ibn 'Amr held that, "Wine is the worst of the major sins.” (Al Hakim)
Undoubtedly, wine is the core of abominations. Moreover, he who drinks it was cursed in various hadiths.
"Every intoxicant is wine and every wine is unlawful. Whoever it in the world and dies addictive to it without repentance, he will not drink it in the Hereafter." (Muslim)
"A drunkard is like a worshiper of an idol." (Ahmed & Ibn Majah)
Wine is forbidden as a medicine. Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) related, "Once, one of my daughters was ill, so I made wine in a container for her. Then, the Prophet entered while it was boiling. He asked, "What is this, Umm Salamah?" She replied, "It is just a medicine for my daughter." The Prophet, then, said,
"Allah has not made a cure for you in what He has prohibited to you.” (Ibn Hajar)
20) GAMBLING
Allah says,
{O ye who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, sacrificing to stones, and (divination by) arrows, are an abomination, of Satan's handiwork: eschew such (abomination) that ye may prosperO0 Satan's plan is (but) to excite enmity and hatred between you, with intoxicants and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allah, and from prayer: will ye not then abstain?} (5:90-91)
Gambling connotes backgammon, chess and speculation by nuts, balls, stones and all kinds of betting. It ranks under encroaching upon people's rights that Allah has made forbidden in His saying,
{And do not eat up your property among yourselves for vanities, nor use it as bait for the judges, with intent that ye may eat up wrongfully and knowingly a little of (other) people's property.} (2:188)
It was also referred to in the Prophetic saying,
"The one who invites his companions: Come let us gamble”, should (expiate his sin) by giving in charity.” (Bukhari)
Since the mere willingness to gamble requires expiation, what would be the sin of the real practice of gambling? The Muslim scholars have differed about the exact legal ruling on backgammon and chess in case of being played free from betting. However, the preponderant opinion is to prohibit backgammon. They established their view on the Prophetic saying,
"He who played backgammon is like one who dyed his hand with the flesh and blood of swine" (Muslim)
"He who played backgammon has disobeyed Allah and His Messenger.” (Ibn Majah)
Regarding chess, with or without betting, it is viewed as forbidden by most jurists, for if it includes betting, there is originally no difference of opinion concerning its prohibition. But in case it is void of betting, the prohibition stands more preferable.
21) ACCUSING A WOMAN OF ADULTERY
Allah Most High says,
{Those who slander chaste secured, and believing women are cursed in this life and in the hereafter: for them is a grievous chastisement. On the day when their tongues, their hands, and their feet will bear witness against them as to their as to their actions.} (24: 23-24)
He also says,
{And those who launch a charge against chaste women and produce not four witnesses (to support their allegations) -flog them with eighty stripes: and reject their evidence ever after: for such men are wicked transgressors.} (24: 4)
Allah the Almighty in these verses makes it clear that whosoever unjustly accuses as chaste free woman of committing adultery is cursed both in this world and in the hereafter, and deserves grave chastisement.
In addition, he is flogged with eighty lashes and his witness is not accepted even though he is just.
In the Sahih Bukhari and Muslim -the Prophet says,
“Avoid seven heinous sins…..”
And among which he mentioned charging believing women, unmindful though innocent, with adultery"
An example of such an accusation is if someone says to a Muslim chaste free woman:" You are an adulteress." or "a harlot", or "a whore" or to say to her husband, “you are the prostitute's husband" or to call her child as " the whore's child"
The same rule is applied if someone slanders a man of committing adultery, or a free boy with pederasty. The unjust accuser in all the above cases must suffer eighty stripes unless he brings a testimony of four men who support his allegation. Otherwise, he must be flogged with eighty lashes upon the request of the offended person.
A lot of ignorant people are indulged in such offenses which procure the chastisement in this world and in the hereafter. When a person says something unknowingly right or wrong, it may lead him to fall down in hell as far away as the distance between the east and west.
'Uqbah Ibn ' Amir once asked the Prophet (pbuh), "What is the salvation, Allah's Apostle?" The Prophet said, "Control your tongue, keep inside your house, and weep (be sorry) for your sins. And the person farthest from Allah will be the one whose heart is hard” (Tirmidhi)
S.A.W. also said, "Verily Allah dislikes the indecent obscene person " (Tirmidhi)
22) MISAPPROPRIATING SPOILS OF WAR, MUSLIM FUNDS OR ZAKAT
Allah Most High says,
{ If thou fearest treachery from any group, throw back (their covenant) to them, (so as to be) on equal terms: for Allah loveth not the treacherous.} (8:58)
{No Prophet could ever act dishonestly. If any person acts dishonestly he shall, on the Day of Judgement, restore what he misappropriated, then shall every soul receive its due whatever it earned.} (2:161)
Abu Hurairah heard the Prophet (pbuh) mentioning Ghulul, emphasizing its magnitude, and declaring that it was a grave sin, saying,
"Do not commit Ghalul, for I would not like to see anyone amongst you on the day of Judgement, carrying over his neck a camel that will be grunting. Such a man will say,"O Allah's Apostle! Intercede with Allah for me!" and I will say," I cannot help you for I conveyed Allahs’ message to you. Nor would I like to see a man carrying over his neck a horse that will be neighing. Such a man will be saying," O Allahs' Apostle! Intercede with Allah for me!" and I will reply," I cannot help you, for I conveyed Allahs' message to you". Nor should I like to see a man carrying over his neck a sheep that will be bleating, or one carrying over his neck a crying soul, or one carrying over his neck clothes which will be fluttering, or one carrying over his neck gold and silver. Such men will be saying,' 0 Allah's Apostle! Intercede with Allah for us, and I will say," I cannot help you for I conveyed Allah's message to you.”(Muslim)
Whosoever takes from these kinds of the spoils before they are distributed among the fighters or something from the Muslim's common treasury without the Imam's permission, or something from the Zakat fund which is assigned to the poor, will come on the Day of Judgement carrying it on his neck.
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..JazakAllah Khair...As Salam Alaikum Wa Rahmatullaahi Wa Barakaatuhu :)
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May Allah help us all Learn the Good to apply it in our lives and the Evil to stay away from it InshaAllah!