70 MAJOR SINS

By Muhammad bin `Uthman Adh-Dhahabi, rendered into English by Mohammad Moinuddin Siddiqui


01. Associating anything with Allaah


02. Murder


03. Practising magic


04. Not Praying


05. Not paying Zakaat


06. Not fasting on a Day of Ramadaan without excuse


07. Not performing Hajj, while being able to do so


08. Disrespect to parents


09. Abandoning relatives


10. Fornication and Adultery


11. Homosexuality (sodomy)


12. Interest (Riba)


13. Wrongfully consuming the property of an orphan


14. Lying about Allaah and His Messenger


15. Running away from the battlefield


16. A leader's deceiving his people and being unjust to them


17. Pride and arrogance


18. Bearing false witness


19. Drinking Khamr (wine)


20. Gambling


21. Slandering chaste women


22. Stealing from the spoils of war


23. Stealing


24. Highway Robbery


25. Taking false oath


26. Oppression


27. Illegal gain


28. Consuming wealth acquired unlawfully


29. Committing suicide


30. Frequent lying


31. Judging unjustly


32. Giving and Accepting bribes


33. Woman's imitating man and man's imitating woman


34. Being cuckold


35. Marrying a divorced woman in order to make her lawful for the husband


36. Not protecting oneself from urine


37. Showing-off


38. Learning knowledge of the religion for the sake of this world and concealing that knowledge


39. Bertrayal of trust


40. Recounting favours


41. Denying Allaah's Decree


42. Listening (to) people's private conversations


43. Carrying tales


44. Cursing


45. Breaking contracts


46. Believing in fortune-tellers and astrologers


47. A woman's bad conduct towards her husband


48. Making statues and pictures


49. Lamenting, wailing, tearing the clothing, and doing other things of this sort when an affliction befalls


50. Treating others unjustly


51. Overbearing conduct toward the wife, the servant, the weak, and animals


52. Offending one's neighbour


53. Offending and abusing Muslims


54. Offending people and having an arrogant attitude toward them


55. Trailing one's garment in pride


56. Men's wearing silk and gold


57. A slave's running away from his master


58. Slaughtering an animal which has been dedicated to anyone other than Allaah


59. To knowingly ascribe one's paternity to a father other than one's own


60. Arguing and disputing violently


61. Witholding excess water


62. Giving short weight or measure


63. Feeling secure from Allaah's Plan


64. Offending Allaah's righteous friends


65. Not praying in congregation but praying alone without an excuse


66. Persistently missing Friday Prayers without any excuse


67. Unsurping the rights of the heir through bequests


68. Deceiving and plotting evil


69. Spying for the enemy of the Muslims


70. Cursing or insulting any of the Companions of Allaah's Messenger