Tom Facchine – How Islam Classifies Sins

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 and stuff like that or with your

prayer. You might do one prayer 7 times

and, like, oh, well, I've 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 come with, like, oh, well, did

I make a

direct plea for forgiveness for this particular thing

that I did or or this thing or

that thing? You know?

And yeah. I mean, there 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 Surat Al Anaim, he says,

Right? Like who you 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

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, that that and that's

the mercy of Allah.