7 Deadly Sins Muslims Fall Into (And How To Avoid Them)

We have Muslims trying to justify the LGBTXYZ brother-sister twister. They're trying to justify that to be halal. But there were Muslim supposed scholars that were saying, no, this is okay. Today you see brothers mocking the beard. We see sisters mocking the niqab. You know, when you mock anything of Islam, this is kufr. Subhanallah. This is a destructive sin.

People, if you're watching this and you think riba is just getting a loan from the bank and paying interest, watch out. You're going to get surprised.

Many of these things all have riba in them. And he said, I'll do a charity drive, I take 50%. $100,000, people giving $10 and $5, taxi drivers, brothers working hard or giving them money for the orphan, he takes 50% of that, puts it in his pocket. And this is something that people think, oh, nobody does this. But we do.

Give me an example. Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Welcome to new episodes. In this episode, we're speaking about the 7 most destructive sins that you need to absolutely stay away from. Any sins that we'll mention, if they don't fall under what you do or what you know you won't do, make sure you also let people know, because you're not just responsible for yourself. Maybe someone else is engaging in a sin that we're mentioning in this video and and he doesn't know about it. You need to share with them so that you'll preserve them as well. It's very important because people might realize, I don't deal with drugs, I don't deal with shirk, I don't deal with this. Maybe you know people that would deal with it, and if Allah presents you this opportunity for you to help them, that's what you should do. Sheikh, barakAllahu fi kufar, taking the time. What's the first most destructive sin we absolutely need to stay away from?

The first And the most dangerous, the greatest oppression and sin is shirk with Allah (SWT). And it's not just worshipping an idol. Shirk comes in many forms. Shirkul Akbar comes in many forms and has snuck into this Ummah once again. And we see it every day going on.

SubhanAllah, tell me about it.

There's a beautiful hadith that Abu Hurairah (RA) who reported from Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه وسلم), And it's muttafaqun alayhi sunn Bukhari and Muslim. And it gives the 7 most destructive sins. So from this podcast, everybody watching, make this list. 7 of the most serious, most destructive, most dangerous sins that this Ramadan we should check off our list, that I am definitely staying away from them.

100%. What's the first one?

The first one is shirk. There is no sin as serious as shirk.

Is it just for major shirk?

When we talk about shirk, shirk al-Akbar, that which takes you outside the fold of Islam, this is the most serious issue. But many people don't realize that it's not just somebody going and worshipping an idol. Shirk comes in many forms. The major shirk, I'm not even talking about minor shirk here. For example, when somebody makes dua to other than Allah, this is major shirk. This is kufr. When you look at the mushrikeen of Quraysh, they didn't deny the existence of Allah.

Very important point. Very interesting.

Yes. When you ask them, it's in the Quran, that who created the Samawat? Qalu Allah. They knew the word Allah.

How would they still mushrikeen?

What is the name of the father of the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم)?

Abdullah.

Right? Abd Allah. They didn't deny Allah. They named their children Abdullah. What was their shirk? They made dua to intermediaries, intercessories. They said, you know, we can't get directly to Allah, so we will make dua, na'udhu billah, in their misguided mindset, to the daughters of Allah. They gave Allah daughters. For themselves, they preferred boys, but they gave Allah daughters. And Allah is free from any children. Allah is free from a spouse. Allah is free from a father. Allah is not in need of any of that. Allah is Samad. But this is their misconception. And then they would go and make dua to those idols. And they would sometimes say that these idols then make dua to Allah for us. They are between us and Allah. You know, many Muslims fall into this. I have seen with my own eyes Muslims that will go to a maqbara, to a graveyard. And they will say to the Sahib al-Kabr that, oh, fulan, grant me a child. SubhanAllah, a person who says I'm Muslim, says La ilaha illallah, says Muhammadur Rasulullah, and then goes and gives that power that is only for Allah to somebody in a qabar, and they make dua to them. Not just tawassul, not just okay, you know, because of their status. No, no, they make dua to them. This is shirk. May Allah protect us from this.

So that's the first most dangerous sin.

But shirk has many more aspects to it. You know, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala is the one that legislates. He is the one that gives hukum. He is the one that ordains the Sharia. Today we have Muslims that say la ilaha illallah, Muhammad Rasulullah, but they deny the Sharia. They deny the Quran being muhkam. You know, they will say things like, yeah, the Quran is great, the law of the Quran is great, I'm Muslim, but democracy is better, but socialism is better, but communism is better, but those rules are outdated. Oh, that's barbaric. Oh, you know, this is shirk al-Akbar. When you deny what Allah has revealed, there are people who call themselves Muslim, but they do this destructive shirk in Ramadan. You know, to mock Islam is shirk al-Akbar. Today you see brothers mocking the beard. We see sisters mocking the niqab. You know, when you mock anything of Islam, this is kufr. Subhanallah, you have to take your Shahada again. So the reason I'm mentioning these things, I'm not just talking about going and worshiping an idol, because if you're Muslim, you know that's Kufr. Okay, it's obvious. But these, yeah, these are Kufr.

Yeah, we still have, specifically the last one, mocking Islam. Some people would do on social media, take a joke or go borderline.

You know, somebody has a beard. Why? Like me and you, we both have beards. Why? Because the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) ordered it. Wajiban, right? We don't have it for a fashion statement, even though it looks good. Like, I ain't saying it don't look good, right? But I'm not doing it for that, right? It's a part of, you know, and I'm going to say a hadith here that might make some people upset, but who cares, right? It's hadith. Is authentic due to supporting evidences, as Sheikh al-Albani and others have mentioned. Imam al-Tabrani had this in his Mu'jam and others. Two Persians were sent to the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) as assassins, actually. But when they came, the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم), when he saw them, he turned his face away from them. He didn't want to look at them.

Why?

Because they had shaved their beards and grown their mustaches.

SubhanAllah.

Imagine, why did he turn his face away? The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم), it's a reliable authentic hadith, was so disgusted by that appearance that he turned away his face.

What did he tell them?

He told them, what have you done to yourselves? They said, our king Our lord, meaning the king of Persia, has ordered us to shave the beards and grow the mustaches. A'udhu Billahi. Many Muslims today, they think this is like manhood, you know. They keep these big, thick, hairy mustaches all over their lip, and they're eating, and all the food is stuck in it, and they think this is rajula. And they think shaving their beard makes them look good. But the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) was so disgusted by that, he turned his face away. If you are a Muslim man watching and you have this big thick moustache and you don't have a beard, imagine if you went to the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) and he turned his face away from you. Would you want that?

No, of course not.

What did the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) tell them? He said that if your king has ordered that, he goes, 'My Rabb, Allah has ordered me to trim the moustache and grow the beard. Ordered me.' Not just, 'Okay, it's Sunnah.' So now, why do we have a beard? Because of this. Now somebody mocks the beard. Oh, you've got a— somebody was making a joke about this on internet, some Muslim, Audhu Billah, that you have a bird's nest on your face or something stupid or childish like that. Okay, you think it's funny. It's kufr. You may not realize it. I'm not saying the person, I'm not making takfir here, but the action is action of kufr. A sister is a munaktabah, she's a muhajibah, she's covered up as she should be, as Allah (SWT) has ordained for her to be. In Surat al-Ahzab and so on, ayat, and Ibn Abbas (RA) explained that to cover everything except the eyes and so on, right? And somebody, some Muslim sister, 'Oh, look at her, she looks like a ninja.' Yeah, you know what's very interesting here?

It reminds me of the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم), one of his traits is his family would mention that he would never get angry when it would come to worldly matters. He would never get angry, but he would not tolerate a single thing out of the line when it comes to the deen.

100%. And today, when Muslims, by the name of being Muslim, say the hijab is not a part of Islam, the niqab is not a part of Islam, you know, you know, in some countries— not going to mention names, um, drop the names, I don't care. They banned the hijab. Non-Muslim countries, some Muslim countries too supposedly, right? They banned the hijab. Now every Muslim felt this pain for our sisters that were oppressed, that didn't have liberty, that didn't have liberty, that didn't have their choice, that weren't given their human rights to practice their religion the way they want to. Not that they were forced, but they were being forced on the opposite, not allowing, right? But there were Muslim supposed scholars that were saying, no, this is okay. This is the haqq of that country. So this is kufr. You're denying what Allah has revealed. If you deny a harf of the Quran, this is kufr. And now there's Muslims, you know, Quran, I don't know if it's preserved, you know, holes in the narrative. Allahumma ista'an. Very, very— walk very Tread carefully on this. Sins is one thing. If somebody indulges in a sin, pay attention to this, they're still Muslim. They can still go to Jannah, they can be forgiven. But if somebody justifies and makes it halal, you know, says, if somebody drinks alcohol, that's a sin.

Yeah, that's haram.

It's haram. But if somebody says it's halal to drink alcohol, I deny the hukm of alcohol being haram, that's kufr now. Be very careful with this. There's a lot more on shirk and kufr we could talk about, but this is— I don't want to make these too long, right? This is the first and most important.

It's very important that you made the distinction with not just the obvious shirk, worshipping idols, because that everyone knows, and they think that's the only way of shirk.

Today, We have Muslims trying to justify the LGBTXYZ brother-sister twister. They are trying to justify that to be halal. This is kufr. The wife of Lut (عُودُ بِلَّهِ) was called a kafira in the Quran, not because she worshipped idols, but because she supported that lifestyle. There are Muslims saying that women should lead salah. They are trying to change Islam. They are trying to take the hijab out of Islam. They are taking the niqab out of Islam. They are taking the beard out of Islam. They are messing with the salah. Now you have these people that with no hijab on, a woman goes and leads men in salah, and people are like, this is good? A'udhu Billah. But this playing with the deen, denying what Allah has ordered, changing what Allah has ordered, this is kufr. May Allah protect us.

Ameen. So that's the first sin.

The second is also something that is kufr, but in a different way, which is sihr. The second very destructive, from the most destructive of sins, It's magic. Now most people watching will be like, you know what, I don't deal with magic.

Yeah, that doesn't concern me. I don't do any of this stuff.

But how many people from this Ummah still go to soothsayers and check their palms? You go to Muslim countries, you'll see like a palm on the—

Yeah, like I will read your future.

Read your future. This is Sahar. If you go to a fortune teller, a kahin, as the hadith sahih, and you believe, like, oh, he told me I have a long life, he told me these are my lucky numbers, he told me— if you believe in that, that's kufr.

What if you don't believe in it? You go there out of curiosity.

If you don't believe in it, you're just going there for kicks, you're just curious, you just want to— for entertainment, 40 days your salah is not accepted. Even if you didn't believe in it.

Even if you know it's fake and you still go there.

Even if you say it's fake, you laugh at it, you don't believe in it, but you go to a kahin, 40 days your salah is not accepted. But you still have to pray, by the way.

Even though you surely know, you're like, I know this is haram, this is not true, and you still go there just to see.

40 days your salah is not accepted.

Alhamdulillah. So we shouldn't even come close to this.

Never. Subhanallah. Don't play with it. Don't go there for entertainment. Don't entertain these ideas.

Don't even stay near it.

Don't even stand there.

You know what's interesting? You just reminded me. How do you call this? The 12 signs, the solar, what is it called?

This is the horoscopes.

Yeah.

How many Muslims today, even in Muslim country, in the newspaper, they have the horoscopes. Virgo and Pisces and Aries.

I don't even name them. I don't even know about curiosity.

And this is very dangerous because many Muslims today, they believe in these things. Oh, you were born in this month, so this is going to happen. And you are this star, so This is kufr.

Does it fall under the same category where if you— if let's for example say you don't believe in it, you know it's fake, it's haram, but you just want to know out of curiosity, 40 days your salah is not accepted. Really?

Same thing.

That's a very good reminder because some people will just go and check out of curiosity. It's very, very important we stay away from it.

Now many people, they go to what they call shuyukh, and these are, these are magicians. Hiding under the robe of being called a sheikh, and they will go and have amulets written for them, taweez, they will have numbers. I mean, if it's simply Quran, that's a different issue, but mass majority of these are not. And I have opened them myself from people that we have met, and they have magic spells written in them, they have names of jinns written in them, They have Quran written backwards in them. They have the names of Allah (SWT) disrespected in them. And they are given to people that this will protect you, this will benefit you, this will make— And this is very common in the Muslim world today, where a person, whether it's a sister or a brother, will want to marry somebody and it's not working out. And they will go to one of these people and say, 'Write me something that this person will fall in love with me.' This is sahr. And this happens so much. They'll give you something, put this in their drink.

Yeah, you could see some of them, they would say, write me a dua, write me something specific so that I get married with that person.

This is sahr. If you're forcing somebody to get married to you, you know, this isn't normal, right? This is something that you're trying to—

If you're asking for dua, is that separate?

Of course, you can ask. Look, if I come to you and say, make dua for me, this is good.

Okay.

The Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) even asked Umar bin Khattab to make dua for him, even though the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) is is higher in status.

So what's the difference? Where's the line?

Asking somebody to make dua for you, alhamdulillah. Asking somebody to write a spell for you to influence somebody else's life is magic, right? So many people don't realize it, but they go to these people and they get jinn and magic on them or on others. If they tell you, take this and put this in their house somewhere and bury this in a in a well, and this happens all the time in Muslim countries. This is kufr, this is sahr, this is a destructive sin. Stay away from these things. Did the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) teach us to write this backwards and these numbers and wrap them and tie them to your neck and put them in a bracelet and, you know, take this to somebody's house and bury it in their front yard? No. Stay away from these things. These are very, very destructive, dangerous things. The next is killing somebody unjustly.

That's the third one.

That's the third.

That's pretty self-explanatory.

It is, but think about it today. In the Muslim lands, how many murders happen? And Alhamdulillah, even though it's less than the non-Muslim lands, but still, over family feuds, over quick anger.

Let me ask you a question. You mentioned killing somebody with no specific justification. Where is the line? If somebody, for example, has been attacked, if somebody— because people might react and be like, of course I'm not going to kill someone out of nothing. But where is the—

But the thing is, many times the reality is that in Muslim countries, there are Muslims that overland over money, over disputes over property, kill each other. Let me just bring it closer to home. In France, in the UK, in the US, there are Muslims involved in the gang life, Muslims involved in the drug trade, and they're fighting and killing other Muslims over gangs, over drugs, over territory. Over money, over robberies.

How? But what's interesting is you mentioned the third sin is killing somebody, not just a Muslim.

Yes.

So if you're killing somebody for drugs, and even if it's a non-Muslim, even if it's a non-Muslim, killing somebody unjustly is haram in Islam. It's very important to mention because people would assume it's only for Muslims, but it's for people in general.

Yes. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has made life sacred, right?

—And he's the only one who decides when he takes someone's life.

—Yes. Now, if somebody kills somebody, and after a judge, looking at all the checks and balances of the Shariah, making sure that this is actual, proven, and so on, sentences them to death, that's one thing. If somebody does an action that the Shariah gives the hukam, and that's not for you to take into your hands either. It's very important you mention this because people would misunderstand and misinterpret this and say, "Yeah, but he did so and so." Even if somebody does something that is deserving of the death penalty in Islam, that hukam is from a judge, from a qadi who knows the laws, Islamic laws, who knows the rules and regulations, the checks and balance of the Sharia, not vigilantism, not for us to take the law into our own hands. Because a qadi has that knowledge to know the things like 'Udhr bi Jahal' and 'Udhr,' the safeguards, the 'Dawabit' that are there in the Shariah, without that knowledge, we don't just act upon emotion. Now, the reason I bring up the issue of gangs and so on is I have been travelling to many countries, and I grew up with gangs. But myself, even though I knew nothing about Islam at the time, I was very, very ignorant. I was raised away from the community. I never went to a madrasa. I never went to a Sunday class in the masjid or any of that, right? But even then, if I ever heard that another gang had a Muslim, I would even tell my guys, look, that guy's safe. You can't mess with him. That's my brother. Even if I never met him. Right, I had that 'walahu al-baraa' even with fitra in me. Today you go to the UK, you go to Toronto, you go to Paris, you'll see Muslims killing another Muslim over drugs. How could that be? How could we ever let that be? That's so serious, and that's why Even if you are not— nobody goes out and says, I want to kill somebody. No, but, but if you're in a lifestyle that's going to put you in conflict, then when the moment sparks, it's too late.

Then it's very important you mention this because people would see this and be like, how can I resonate with this? I'm not going to be— I'm not going to kill anyone. But what you mentioned is you put yourself in the environment, then the environment leads you to it, and then it's too late.

You know, I was in Canada, in a city that is in the western part of Canada, and we prayed janazah on our 24-year-old brother. You know what happened with him? He got killed by another Muslim. He wasn't even in gangs. They were at a club and things sparked, things got out of hand. They were drinking. One stabbed the other and died. SubhanAllah.

And you see how you mentioned it, it started with the environment. Yes.

They were at a club. So this Ramadan, make a commitment. I know maybe you don't like, right? But you know people. You may have cousins, you may have friends that are in that environment. Go and speak to them. Send them this video. Remind them. Don't put yourself in that situation. Once you're already at the club, Once you're already with a gang, once you're already involved in that music industry where you have to beef with other rappers and things, it's too late. Because when it sparks, within the split of a second, your life is ruined.

Yeah, but it all started with the environment.

Now let's move forward to the fourth sin. Out of the 7 destructive sins that we're going to not just avoid, but remind others to stay away from this Ramadan.

And that is riba, usury.

Specifically in business, people are always speaking about business. Again, many people don't realize how serious this sin is. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala tells us this is haram. This is war against Allah wa Rasuluh. Yeah.

For riba, is it just relating to interest when it comes to taking a loan in a bank, or is there other types of riba?

There's many types of riba.

This is very important because again, people, if you're watching this and you think riba is just getting a loan from the bank and paying interest, watch out, you're going to get surprised.

Student loans, personal loans, credit cards, many of these things all have riba in them.

Sheikh, can I ask you one thing? Can you define what riba is? Because people I know No, misinterpret it and translate it with just interest. That's wrong, because when they translate it with interest, they're speaking about the bank interest. But riba specifically is getting benefit from a loan. From loans.

There's even more to riba, right? Even if in trade, we do trades that benefit you through other ways that is not within the trade, This is a form of riba.

Can you give me an example?

So for example, I tell you, okay, look, um, I'm gonna buy this product from you, but defer my payment for a year. And you tell me, okay, take the product, I'm gonna defer the payment for a year, but for that, I'm gonna use your car for that year.

Okay, so that's no extra money. Let's say the product— let's say you're buying this book for $10. I say I'll pay you next year. It's still $10. I'm not charging 5% extra, whatever, it's $10. But I'm saying in exchange, give me your car for a year.

Yes. Now I'm benefiting on another issue of based of deferred payment.

This is very, very important in business. Most people don't understand this. That's why I'm referring to it, because they think riba is just student loans, riba is just bank loans. But this is benefiting from a loan, even if that means I'm not making money. I'm giving you $10. It's the price that we agreed on. There's no interest on it. But I'm getting another service, I'm getting another help, I'm getting another product. That in and of itself is riba, even though it's not money. You're paying the same price, but this is riba because you're benefiting from a loan. And the loan in Islam should be charity. Yes.

And you can do business, you can, you can do other ways of, you know, working together. Great. But when you just based of deferred payments and money in cash are now making dhulm on the person, even if they are willing to take it, but Islam doesn't allow it. Next is the consumption of the wealth of the orphan. That's the fifth sin. That's the fifth sin now. And this is something that people think, oh, nobody does this, but we do. Give me an example. I'll give you an example. There are orphans that have a fund that is left from their parents. But their parents passed away, they have property, but the family, they go in, they change the will, they go in and get them to write over a power of attorney, and they take over those businesses and take over, and then they give the orphan a little from what is due to them. Now, this is something very serious. How is this called? This is taking the rights of the orphan.

And what's the consequence of that sin?

This is from the major sins in Islam. And from the 7 most destructive sins that we've been talking about. But I'll tell you something that's even more common than that, which is people go and collect zakat for orphans, and then they take that money and put it in their own pocket. That might sound shocking to you, right? This happens every day. How? Myself, I get invited for charity drives. For the orphans, for the poor people, right? And then they offer me a cut of the money raised as a speaker. Wallahi, I've never taken a penny for any of these. But I know speakers, Islamic speakers, people on videos online, they take 50% of the donations. Meaning 50%, I can— I don't want to mention the name, because we hide people's sins, but I know the person myself. A well-known speaker, videos online, people see him as a sheikh in this, and he said, I'll do a charity drive, I take 50%. Now imagine he gets up in a masjid and he says, these children in Gaza, these orphans, they need this food, they're starving, they got pictures of them starving and they got videos of them, and you're giving for the orphan, you're not giving it for him. He's not even flying to Huzza to give it to them. He's not— amlina alayha for zakat, for example. He's not just for that fundraising. They raise $100 grand, $100 grand, people giving $10 and $5, taxi drivers, brothers working hard or giving them money for the orphan. He takes 50% of that, puts in his pocket every day. The going rate is 30%. That's the average. There's a whole market for this? Yes, yes, people make millions off of this. Wallahi, this is my principle. I don't take a penny when I do a fundraising for a masjid, when I do a fundraising for a charity, when I do fundraising for— I don't take a single penny from it. But I'm telling you, I'm the only one that I know of that's like this.

So how should they do it if they get so much demand and they have to go through it? How does that work?

Look, if I invite you as a speaker to come speak, for me to help you by paying your flights, your hotels, and to give you an honorarium, meaning you are a person, you have bills, you have children, you have a life, nothing wrong with that. But if you're going to come to me and say that for a charity, not a business here, charity, give me 30%, give me 50%, give me 45%, give me 15%, that's wrong. Akhid, that money is meant for the orphans, not for you. Right? Now, as a businessman, I can say, you know, masha'Allah, you're a great speaker, you're doing this for the deen, I want to support you. You know, even not just for your Islamic cause, but as a person. You know, you've got bills, you've got kids, you know, no problem. I want to— here's a check for you. That, you know, go help you in your life so then you can dedicate yourself to deen. That's a separate thing.

No problem with that.

But if you come to me and say, if you want me to come raise money for your masjid, I take 50% of that money. No, that money is for the masjid. It's not for you. Yeah? So you have to differentiate between those. We have an extreme on the other side as well, where people think scholars eat dirt, like as if they don't have children, as if they don't have bills. No, they need to live as well. But they shouldn't be the one taking cuts. I mean, to give an honorarium for somebody's time, good. For somebody's effort, good. Supporting them, yes. Helping them, yes. Like the Salafus-Salahin used to do. Like Imam Malik, when the major traders of Madinah used to support him in his teaching, and yes, good. But can you imagine Imam Malik standing up and saying, you know, the Muslims are in need in Khorasan or in In Rome, the battles are going on. We need to raise money for the battle. And then when they raise the money, he takes 30%, puts it in his own pocket? No, never. No, no, no. So this is the next sin, which is taking the wealth of the orphan. The next one is fleeing from the battlefield. That's the sixth one. Sixth one now.

How could people relate if there's not really wars and everything nowadays? But there are, right?

I mean, even if me and you are not in a battlefield, We do have Muslim countries that are in war with Kuffar, and the Muslim must be strong, the Muslim must be firm in that battlefield. This is when the iman is really tested. Now that is the actual major sin, but then an aspect of that that's in every one of us, in the life of every one of us, is are we standing firm on the deen? Or are we running away spiritually? Are we running away by compromising this deen? Are we running away by apologizing for this deen? Are we running away by watering down this religion? Are we running away by saying, "Oh yeah, that used to be in the old days, but that's not applicable anymore in Islam now. We've changed for the 21st century or the 22nd century or Europe or America." You know, now they want to make an American Islam, they want to make a European Islam, they want to change Islam, they want to run away from facing the enemies of Islam even on an ideological level, even on the level of standing first firm on the aqidah of Islam. People want to run from it. And this is where we bring this into our life. And the last one of these sins, the seventh, is accusing a chaste believer, a believing woman, of zina. Now, now, this is very serious today.

It's interesting how all the other ones seem like major, major sins. I mean, you could see killing someone, making shirk, making sihr— everybody would know this. But then we don't realize that the seventh one is accusing someone of zina.

Imagine a woman, a pious woman, a religious woman a munakkaba, a muhajjaba, with hijab, and somebody accuses her of zina, what torture is that when that woman is innocent? And I tell you this, even if people don't realize it, this goes on every day nowadays. People make false accusations online. They see somebody, They see them somewhere and they make accusations. Happens all the time. You know, even this has happened very famously with some famous speakers, some du'at in the UK and then also in the US, where absolute slanders were put out about them, and people spread those rumors of zina and things, and The ones we looked at all turned out to be false. I'm not saying there aren't people out there that do wrong things, and there are. And when there's the evidence, or when it's clear, and so on. But when there are these assumptions made, and these accusations, especially online, when you don't know what's going on, and people start spreading these— this is a major sin, and from the 7 most destructive sins, is to accuse a chaste woman of zina. Now understand how serious of a thing this is. The punishment for zina for the unmarried person is to be whipped. The punishment for zina for the married, whether it's a man or woman, the same punishment is being stoned to death. So that's how serious this is. And when people make false assumptions, even if the hudud are not being carried out on them, when it harms the honor of the person. Imagine a woman, a good woman, and you're making this false accusation, or— and even if it gets clarified, people will always have that, you know, that doubt.

Yeah, it's a stain that never goes away.

And even if people online are thinking, oh, we would never do— but think about it. Do you go close to that? Do you Spread rumors online? Do you hear about some accusation and then tell people, oh, you know what I heard? You know what I heard, right?

Well, then you're a part of the problem. Exactly. That's very good you mentioned this, because people would assume, yeah, I wouldn't call it out myself, but I might leave a comment. I wouldn't call it out, but I might say I heard rumors, and you're helping spread. Because that's what we realize nowadays, most accusations are not really frontal anymore. They're not really somebody calling someone out and saying it publicly because people are afraid, but it's a combination of small comments here and there that create this overall accusation and assumption within people.

And there are many cases right now where people lied about somebody, made false accusations about Muslim women online, Muslim brothers, du'at, ulema, and many, many people spread that. And even when it turned out to be wrong, people didn't go and apologize. People didn't go and make tawbah, they just went to the next scandal. And these false accusations are destroying people's marriages, destroying people's lives, harming the dawah, harming the du'at that are doing good honest work. And this type of thing has to stop, you know, especially when it comes to women. You know, nowadays in many Muslim countries, based on a rough assumption, people make these accusations, not realizing how serious of a sin this is.

SubhanAllah. So these were the 7 most destructive sins. Can you summarize them for us, please?

So the 7 most destructive sins: shirk, shirk al-Akbar, when people associate partners with Allah (SWT), whether it's in His Lordship, whether it's in his ability to make dua to none but Allah, whether it's in his asma' or sifat or so on, shirk. Then sihr, magic, whether it's through kahin, whether it's through palm reading, whether it's through horoscope, whatever that may be. Then killing a person unjustly, qatal. Then riba, usury, in any form that it is. Then consuming the wealth of the orphan. Then fleeing from the battlefield. And lastly, accusing a chaste Muslim woman of zina.

And we have to stay away from the sins specifically in Ramadan, as those sins are heavier than usual, and also throughout the rest of the year, bi-idhnillah.

And the last thing on that, also stay away from getting close to those sins. Meaning don't be on a path to them. Even if you're not accusing of zina, but if you're accusing somebody of something that you know that you don't have surety upon clearly, that's there. If you're not doing riba but you got the card and you're tampering with it, don't play with it. If you're not believing in that fortune teller but you're still curious about it, don't play with these sins.

May Allah (SWT) protect you. Ameen. I don't think we need a summary. Don't play with these sins.