Yasir Qadhi – Major And Minor Sins

			I just had to sort of nudge him today and sort of nudge him. There is a verse that I want to comment
on a little bit. Allah says in the Quran Alladhina Egypt's any buena Keba Iran ethnic Alpha Heisha
il Mmm. The righteous are those who avoid the Cabal era avoid the big of the sins and of the evil
deeds. And they don't have to avoid the lemon in the lemon it is allowed a lemon. So it is as if
Allah is categorizing sins in the Quran. Allah is differentiating between sins and Allah is saying
that the righteous are those who yearn to attend the Buena kabbah era with me will power fish, they
avoid the Kaaba era of the sins. And then Allah makes an exception ill Allah mum, if the righteous
		

			commits a lemon will translate this in a while, that doesn't negate from them being righteous. So
this leads us to the very interesting, very detailed discussion, which we're going to very quickly
summarized because always time is against us the categories of sins. Now, sins can be categorized in
many different ways. You can categorize them based upon where do they exist, they can exist only in
the heart, nobody knows about them in your art. So you have jealousy. Nobody knows you're jealous,
you have arrogance, nobody knows the fact nobody knows or they can exist on the body, somebody can
see them. So that is one category of sin. You also have another categorization from another
		

			perspective, sins against Allah, and sins against the creation. So since against Allah, you are
infringing between you and Allah, the rights of ALLAH SubhanA wa taala, you're doing something that
Allah has told you not to do, or that you are not doing something Allah has told you do, but between
you and Allah, and another category of sin, you're infringing on the rights of somebody else, you
are stealing, backbiting, hitting, stabbing, taking the heck of somebody else, you can categorize in
that manner as well. You can also categorize the sin of doing something you shouldn't do, versus the
sin of not doing something you should not do right, not doing something you should do. So for
		

			example, the sin of Iblees. Allah said, prostrate IBLEES said no, he refused a commandment, the sin
of Adam. Allah said, don't eat, he ate, he did something he shouldn't have done. So this is another
categorization of sin. So and there many other categorizations as well. But the categorization we're
going to talk about today so this is a very detailed topic, obviously the the concept of sins. Today
we're going to shed a little bit of light about what I just recited in the Quran, another
categorization scheme, and one that occurs in the Quran and multiple verses. And this is the
categorization of Kabira and celerra Kabira. And Sahara. The Quran has three verses, in which Allah
		

			subhana wa Taala indicates that sins are Kabira versus sins are Sahira. So for example, this is one
of them. Alladhina Yeji attorney buena kabbah. Ural if we will approach a dilemma. Allah is clearly
differentiating kabbah il from a lemon lemon, by the way, it translates as something touching. So
you're not really going deep inside, you're just like touching it, or you're just like getting
involved a little bit. So there's an indication that the celerra lemma is not as big of a deal as
the Kabira. Obviously, that's the whole point. But in a more explicit verse, Allah literally says
the word Selena and Kabira and this is in surah. Alkaff Surah teleca Huff, Allah subhanho wa Taala
		

			says when the worry they'll get up when the book is laid out, and they say, Molly huddle Kitabi now
you are the euro. So the Euro 10 Wallah can be rotten ill.
		

			Where's this book coming from? There is no Sahira or cubby at all, except that the book has
demonstrated it right. And Allah azza wa jal says a certain Nisa integer tenable Cuba Iran Mattoon
Hona Anhu no Kofi Annan come say your article will he'll come Moodle Colin Karima, if you avoid the
Kabbalah era, we shall forgive your Sejad meaning there's a category of sins, that Allah shall
forgive automatically if you're righteous and pious, these are called the say yacht and the the
other verse, the Sahara, and the third verse the lemon. So there are three verses in the Quran surah
nisa Surah Al calf, and what's the third one?
		

			Very good. So the tender like I just recited it. These are the three verses in which Allah subhana
wa Taala explicitly differentiates between the concept of Selena and the concept of Kabira. Now, the
big issue comes and this is the big controversy if you like that what exactly is the difference
between the Selena and the Kibera? What is the definition that it
		

			eliminates or differentiates between Salina and Kabira.
		

			This question, no exaggeration, I could spend many hours on many PhDs have been written, I have some
in my library, many a path or research papers have been written, many scholars have attempted to
differentiate. And this leads to a very deep topic, which I don't really want to get into the depth
of it. But I just want to indicate that what we find here and this is an academic analysis, which
I'm not the first time many people have said this, what we find here is that our scholars, many of
them when they talked about Kerberos, when they talked about major sins, we have a common trend,
that there seems to be a emphasis on adding more and more things to this list. Whereas the earliest
		

			of generations, like the Sahaba, they seem to have a few things on the list. So it is reported that
even Massoud said, There's only four Kerberos, and Ibn Abbas. So even Omar said, There's seven
Kerberos. And other Sahaba said, There's around 10 of them, right? So we have this notion that
there's just a few Kerberos. And on the list, we all know what they are, like murder, for example,
right? Or, you know, Xena, or, for example, stealing. So these are all, for example, running away
from the battlefields explicitly mentioned in the or obviously should, because on the list as well,
so you have the short lists, but the later you go, there seems to be a trend to make this list
		

			bigger and bigger and bigger. And our scholars, especially those that are we call them the the
analytical scholars that will help contain our scholars point out. The reason for this is the human
tendency, especially amongst preachers to frighten the people from committing sins, right. And it's
a natural tendency, and it's a good tendency, you want to tell people to not do sins. And so what is
one of the easiest ways to do that? You just point out, oh, that's a very big sin. That's a Kabira.
So we have for example, later scholars and Mr. Medina Hubby, even vegetal hate me, they have these
massive lists. And in fact, other scholars criticize that, actually, you're making almost every sin
		

			imaginable into a Kabira. And if you look at the list, it's a lot of things that the majority of
scholars don't consider a Kabira. Now the problem comes, and this is a very legit problem and have
to make this disclaimer, when we say it's not a Kabira. Does this mean we're trivializing the sin?
Does this mean we're opening the license to commit the sin? Does this mean we're saying Oh, no big
deal. Go ahead and committed? No, not at all. We are simply being academic and fair to the Quran and
Sunnah. So what then is a Kabira? Again, lots of definitions, no exaggeration, over 17 definitions
have been given throughout Islamic history. What is the Quran Saphira, the one that is the most
		

			popular it is generally attributed to Ibn Taymiyyah. But Ibn Taymiyyah wasn't the first to say this,
as shortly before as well and others before him, they have this this phrase, and that is every sin,
in which number one, there is a worldly punishment had right or number two, there is an order we
punishment. Allah has said this is either Bucha Hanham, Allah has said you do this is going to be
either Bucha Hanham and number three, Allah has Lana line Allah, then it becomes a Kabira. So they
give three criteria. Every punishment that has a worldly sin, if you do it and the government
catches you Islamic State, you're going to be punished What is an example of a worldly punishment
		

			sin?
		

			Murder, Zina, this is a head or a punishment that has Allah's punishment in the ark era. What's an
example in the Quran?
		

			Share because obviously the number one major sin what else?
		

			Eating orphans property in the Lydian Quran Amalia tempo Gouldman in nema. Yeah. kulula people
tuning him now raw. Allah is saying eating orphans property you are eating the fire of health for
example. Right. So this is Allah's punishment of Jahannam or number three liner? What's an example
of China in the Quran?
		

			Killing a Muslim, yes, and volum unto others, the end of July. I love volley mean, right? When you
take the rights of other people, you oppress other people learn and others there's like 10
categories of voting in the Quran. majority of them are caphyon Right? What I call Elana Mala, who
the those who commit coup for Allah's land is upon them. So these are this definition seems to be a
more precise definition. And if you look at the sins in this category, they do not get to 70 8090
		

			Some of the lists have them, it's a bit too much. Now, there is a statement attributed to even a bus
that there are closer to 70 Kabira versus seven, l kabbah. are closer to 70 than they are to seven.
Now this is attributed to him in some later books, Allahu Allah, if you actually said it or not. And
even if he said it, firstly, it is one opinion compared to even muster than others. And secondly,
there is this notion of, again, what is called the Waif or making the people scared of committing
sins, and that's a healthy notion. So, in reality, there is a academic way to discuss this topic,
and then there is a preaching way to discuss this topic, right? And this is the problem here. If you
		

			want to be academic about it, it might appear as if you are trivializing and if you want to be
preachy about it, well then go ahead and make every sin a major sin because you don't want people to
commit sin. By the way even though claim has an interesting point here and one of his very, you
know, academic books, very advanced books, talks about Hadith and masala had is called El Mirage, El
Mirage and motif. He says that the majority of a hadith that talks about the dangers of riba they're
actually fabricated by the preachers. This is what Immanuel Khayyam says, the majority of a hadith
that we find about the dangers of riba whoever does Riba is as suffered Allah for even saying this,
		

			but it's mentioned in the books and some people think is a sahih Hadith. I do not think it is this
lady neither does have no claim. The least type of Riba is like doing Zina with Yanni you get the
point it's just the process and could never have uttered this and as a broker him says, How can riba
be equivalent to that sin that is mentioned in this fabricated Hadith? It's not even possible. My
point is that why would preachers invent this? Why would preachers invent this genre? They actually
have good Nia but good Nia doesn't justify the action, the good Nia, let me prevent people from
doing Riba. Right, and so you just say, say everything you can, and then it spreads amongst the
		

			masses, and then it becomes a Kabira. Middle Kava. Sorry, not Reba is a Kabira. But I'm saying the
Quranic River is a Kabira. But I'm saying that a hadith about riba there's only a few that are
authentic, the bulk of them as a yam says, are from the fabricated people that just wanted to preach
my point is back to the issue of Kibera. So another point that is our scholars mentioned, and that
is that there's something called the the sin itself, which is the genre of sin, and then the
characteristics of the sin. What do I mean here? Not every sin is exactly the same, even if
outwardly it is exactly the same. And this is common sense. Not every murder is exactly the same as
		

			every other murder, not every Zina is exactly the same as every other Zina so even within Kabira you
have door ajar between the Kabira. And we know this from our tradition, for example, the Prophet
sallallahu, either he was seldom said one of the major sins is one to Zania highly Letta generic
that you commit Zina with your neighbor's wife. Our scholars comment on this that the fact that he
is mentioning Zina with the neighbor's wife indicates it is a category of Zina that is much worse
than other categories, even though all might be bad, right? So the time of the sin has an impact on
the sin, doing a sin in the daytime of Ramadan is not the same as doing it another time. Right? The
		

			location of the sin has an impact on the severity of the sin. Stealing in a masjid, stealing in the
harem of Makkah. Do people steal in the harem of Makkah, I'm not going to answer that question.
		

			But you can ask me for details along with Stan pickpockets and whatnot. And anyway, yes, it does
happen but
		

			the sin of where it happens, the sin of where it happens is not the same. If you commit a sin in a
location that is sacred is not the same as doing it in another location, right? The person who does
it the circumstances so you have a whole but even even the marital status. So in our Shetty out, the
punishment of Zina of the one who's married is not the same as the punishment who is not married. So
the Sharia takes into account so many factors. Therefore, even a major sin can become higher or
lower on the scale depending on the factors surrounding it right. Now the question also arises, what
happens if a person commits a major sin? What are the what's the what's the big deal if you like?
		

			What's the issue here? The issue is as follows The Quran is very clear. Number one surah najem.
		

			You cannot be from the Saudi Hain and commit a major sin. So that the najem says this right? That if
you want to be from the righteous people, then it cannot be kabbah era. This means by the way
		

			If you cannot be committing Kedah continuously, if a person commits a Kabira and repents, he's no
longer committing Kabaya you understand this point, committing a major sin and then repenting having
a past major sin, then you are potentially slogging, but to commit it continuously and not repent.
You are not of the Salah Hain do you become a Kaffir? Obviously not you become a faster and faster
is somebody who is a sinful person, and there's the potential of Allah's punishment, right? Number
two, when you commit a Khedira in this world, and it is known you're committing a Kabira, then your
testimony is no longer accepted. In a court of law. Your testimony will be we don't accept this
		

			person's testimony and other outcome of dunya are a put upon it. And number three, when you commit
to Kabira, a major sin. It requires a special Toba for the major sin. Whereas this is the key point
minor sins requires general Toba, generic Toba. So major sin, Zina or drinking alcohol or stealing
somebody's property. This is a major sin stealing orphans property.
		

			In order to be forgiven for major sin, you must enact a special Toba unique for that sin, your heart
must feel guilty, you must turn to Allah subhanho wa taala. You must make this default you must make
a sincere intention to not return to that sin you must return the rights of the person. This is
specific Toba as for minor sin, what is a minor sin Ibn Abbas said Don't get angry at me this has
been Abbas speaking it been Abbas said, I know no sin that is more symptomatic of a minor sin than a
man gazing at a woman that is not his Muharram. So a man is sitting in the street a woman passes by
right even Abbas said, I know of no sin that is more illustrative of what the lemma is. He commented
		

			on this verse Alladhina yet and you're gonna carbide carbide ignore all flash in the limo. He goes,
I know of no sin that is more demonstrative of what exemplifies lemon than a man seeing a non
Muharram lady in the street and he has the look of lust. It's not good to do. It's not healthy to do
it's definitely not something a man should do. But is it Allah's Lana? Is it automatically either
boo Jahannam these sins, all of these sins? They are forgiven by generic Toba? Not necessarily
specific What does generic Toba mean? After Salah we say a star for Allah stuff for a lot of stuff
it Allah and our Prophet sallallahu sallam said between the five prayers are forgiven if you perfect
		

			them and between the Ramadan are forgiven if you fast Ramadan and between the homeless are forgiven
if you fast if you do the cameras and our prophets Allah wa sallam said the one who does will do his
sins fall off of him and so many other Hadith all of these Hadith what type of sins
		

			the minor ones the major ones will not be forgiven by doing well do you eat a clear Tama mallia Tama
your will do is not going to forgive that a stop for Allah stop for Allah. You fast from Oban and
you're stealing other people's money that is a separate category of sin. That's not going to be
forgiven by just fasting Ramadan. So we have to be academically understand there is a big difference
between Kabbalah and saw it when it comes to Tober and when it comes to Tober stick about it have a
special repentance that needs to be done at an individual level two or three final points Inshallah,
then we'll conclude of these points. When does a Solera become a Kabira? Again, so much discussion.
		

			Some scholars said, every sin is a Kabira. And this is the preachy side it's impossible every sin is
a Kabira. But this is the preachy side you want to frighten people away, and other scholars that
there is no real Kabira other than should because Allah says in the Quran, in Allahu Allah yo, yo
Shakopee wildfowling Duna daddy California SHA, every other sin can potentially be acellular. And
what they meant by this is, Allah can forgive they didn't mean to trivialize but they said Allah can
forgive any other sin. In reality, the middle ground is the best here. When does a Selena become a
kibble, you find a lot of people saying this, that if a person habitually does a small sin, it
		

			becomes a major sin. And you find this in a number of early books and
		

			authors and whatnot. But on the academic side of things, I will politely disagree because we have
evidences for this. We don't have time to get into them. Simply doing a minor sin doesn't make it a
Kabira because we have authentic evidences. There's a hadith in Sahih Bukhari and others that the
process that I'm said there's a man who committed his
		

			And then he said, Oh Allah I committed a sin. And Allah forgive it, forgive me, ALLAH forgive him,
then he committed it again, then he committed again. So he's saying he committed it again. In the
end, Allah says, I have forgiven you because you're turning to me. So this shows a habitual sin
doesn't necessarily become a Kabira. But it might. And to make a long story short, in my analysis,
Allah knows best. There's obviously there's so many opinions, but in my humble opinion, a Solera
becomes the Kabira. If the attitude becomes one of arrogance,
		

			you don't care, you're committing the sin. You have a feeling of
		

			habitual nonchalance as the term probably it becomes adda that has no guilt in you. In fact, you
have a level of arrogance when you do it. So then in this case, it's not the habitual celerra that
is the major sin. It is the arrogance of the heart that becomes the major sin right? When you have
arrogance against Allah, this is the CHE atonic sin and then the final point here are the two fine
two two points, two quick points Ibaka em has a nice categorization I like it. I am said all the
sins can be divided into four categories. Number one, animalistic number two predatorial number
three che phonic And number four, infringing on divinity.
		

			He has four categories. So really nice categorization. If no pm says the lowest category is sins,
animalistic sins, and he goes, the most obvious examples are the sins of the stomach and the sins of
the private part. And that's the lowest category. You just act like animals, eat and drink without
any haram and Khaled or take the shahada without any haram and Haddad, this is animalistic, higher
than this, what was the second one?
		

			predatorial predatorial like attacking animals, right? So predatorial is you take the rights of
other people, you are attacking, hurting, you are lust, you know stealing whatnot, this is
predatorial This is the second category higher than this shape, onyx sins. Shape. Onyx sins are. For
example, what is the sin of Iblees?
		

			Arrogance what else?
		

			Jealousy, jealousy to feel jealousy. Right? What else called misleading misguiding calling people to
deviancy right? That is shaytaan a category of sins, okay. And then the highest category of sins is
trying to act as if you're competing with Allah for our Nick type sins under a bakoma Allah and this
is acting tyrannical juggle route, acting as if you are the one in charge that arrogance that leads
to a level of, of of tyranny that is the highest category of sin. So these are a good
categorization. The final point we conclude with prophets Allah said I'm set in an authentic hadith
my shefa is meant for the people who commit major sins in my ummah in Nisha it Leah lil kabbah at
		

			min OMA T What does this hadith mean? This hadith isn't reported in Timothy and then mostly the My
mama and others that authentic hadith what does this hadith mean, in Nashua it the al Qaeda at min
Amati does this mean that we have open license to commit kabbah obviously not our prophets Allah
that solicit them is saying that who needs the shofar, the righteous, the salah Hain they're getting
to Jana anyway. My shefa is meant for the sinners of my Oma. It is meant to give hope to the
sinners. That Hey, don't give up. Turn to Allah. Don't give up. If you've committed sins, don't give
up turn to Allah subhanho wa Taala repent to Allah turn over and you leave and Allah azza wa jal
		

			will forgive you through the shafa of the Prophet sallallahu sallam. It's not meant to justify
committing major sins. It is meant to give hope to the sinners never lose hope of Allah's mercy. The
Prophet SAW Selim shefa will be for the entire Ummah, including those who committed major sins if
they are worthy of it, and when will they be worthy of it when they turn to Allah and ask for
forgiveness? So to conclude, brothers and sisters, all sins major or minor? In the Lucha yo foo. But
Jimmy, as one of the Senate have said, there is no Kabira which is still far there is no Kabira
which is still far when you do is still far even the Kabira is wiped away. So you turn to Allah you
		

			asked for forgiveness and you turn over a new leaf, but you have to also be academically aware when
you commit a Khedira it is not the same as a Savera and Kabira is a different category of sin.
		

			Is requires a special repentance. As for the Sahira Be careful nobody's trivializing them. But
understand when you are righteous when you are doing will do praying five times a day fasting
Ramadan in sha Allah you have hope. Don't don't become complacent but you have hope that your good
deeds will absolve your mind or deeds may Allah subhana wa Tada forgive us all of any commuters who
might have committed and allow our good deeds to consume our smaller sins will outgrow that I wanted
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