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