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Shirk: associating partners in worship with Allaah
Grave-worship
Sacrificing to anything other than Allaah
Allowing what Allaah has forbidden and forbidding what Allaah 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 Allaah
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 imaam (when praying in congregation)
Coming to the mosque after eating onions or garlic, or anything that has an offensive smell
Zinaa - 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 labour, 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 haraam 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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