Muharamat - Prohibitions That Are Taken Too Lightly. Islamic book

Contents

Introduction

Shirk: associating partners in worship with Allah

Grave-worship

Sacrificing to anything other than Allah

Allowing what Allah has forbidden and forbidding what Allah 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 Allah

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 imam (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 haram 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 neighbour

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