Tom Facchine – How Islam Classifies Sins
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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.