Muharamat!

[Abunuran]

As-salaam Alikum,


Muharamat



Prohibitions that are taken too lightly


English Translation


Book by Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid



Contents:



Introduction


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


These are the contents of the book that will be listed in the thread. If you are anxious about an issue and want to know it's rulling, please be patient with me as I am busy with other things and will try to post a new topic every day insh'a Allah as they are lisited, but will not jump the order listed here.


As-salaam Alikum.