Tom Facchine – Different Types Of Sin In Islam

			So there's different types of sin in Islam.
		

			Okay, so major sins are the ones that
		

			require specific repentance from.
		

			Minor sins, they get erased automatically, from prayer
		

			to prayer, from fast to fast, you know,
		

			these sorts of things.
		

			And so people can be affected by west
		

			-west when this happens, right?
		

			And there's famous examples that people already know
		

			about, you know, with wudu and stuff like
		

			that, or with your prayer, you might do
		

			one prayer seven times and like, oh, well,
		

			did I forget something?
		

			You can have the same sort of west
		

			-west when it comes to repentance.
		

			And I've seen this, you know, so some
		

			people can be like, oh, well, did I
		

			make a direct plea for forgiveness for this
		

			particular thing that I did, or this thing
		

			or that thing, you know?
		

			And, yeah, I mean, there's a balance, right?
		

			Because it's not just about feeling regret.
		

			If you have a major sin, then you
		

			need to specifically repent from it.
		

			And regret is part of that repentance, but
		

			it's not all of it, right?
		

			And there's another dimension, if you have affected
		

			somebody else, then even those two things are
		

			not necessarily enough.
		

			You have to fix it too, right?
		

			Allah says in Surah Al-An'am, He
		

			says, وَأَصْلَحَ Like who repents and fixes it,
		

			right?
		

			And so all these sorts of ingredients are
		

			important.
		

			So you need to differentiate, you need to
		

			be balanced.
		

			You can't fall on the side of west
		

			-west where you're now second-guessing every single
		

			part of your repentance for every single little
		

			thing.
		

			No, a major sin requires a specific act
		

			of repentance.
		

			And if it affected somebody else, you have
		

			to try to make it right with that
		

			person or whatever you did.
		

			But then at the same time, yeah, there's
		

			other sins that are minor sins that get
		

			erased automatically, you know?
		

			And that's the mercy of Allah.