Name: Ep. 4: What Are Sins? | Road to Return
Uploaded: 2021-06-17T15:34:46.000Z
Channel: Yahya Ibrahim
Description: What makes something a sin? Sh. Yahya Ibrahim introduces the two categories of sin under which all major and minor transgressions fall.

<p>What makes something a sin? Sh. Yahya Ibrahim introduces the two categories of sin under which all major and minor transgressions fall.</p>

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 Transgressions, the mistakes we make, the lines we cross, the places we go that we shouldn't,  the feelings that we have that we need to restrict, hold back, and take charge of,  the self-control that we want to develop. How do we define transgressions? How do we define  the trespassing against the orders and the laws that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala has sent?  I want you to know initially as Muslims that we believe sin is not inherited and it's not  through heredity. So there are other faiths that believe in a concept called the original sin,  meaning that Adam and Hawwa, Adam and Eve, they made that mistake which meant that every mistake  thereafter is inherited because of it. That a human being had no choice, that from the moment  you were born you were already a sinner. For us as Muslims we don't believe that. We don't believe  in the original sin concept. Our belief is that we all begin on a clean slate and that clean slate  can be wiped clean again and that you can have many many opportunities in your life to clear it  every day, every hour you can clear it if you remain connected to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.  And that is something we're going to study later on when we speak about the psychology of redemption,  how to think about making ourself return to Allah and fixing what we have made as errors  between us and other people and between us and our creator Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.  There are two important ways that you and I need to understand sins in Islam. The first is that one  of the great categories of sin is called shahwat. Shahwat in Arabic means desires, things that we  want and it's a part of our animalistic nature. See you as a human being Allah says,  we made Adam a noble honorable person, a noble honorable creation. Allah separated between us  and other creations who came before us, those that walked the earth, those that crawled on the earth,  other animals that were there and other species and types of things like the jinn  that were here previously. But Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said mankind are insan, those who have  an understanding although they forget at times, yansa, so we are insan, we forget our place with  Allah but we are also bashar, we are also the furless ones, we're not like the other animals  and mammals on the earth. Meaning human beings have a central dignity that is a result of the  soul that is within our body and that soul makes us accountable but our bodies and our minds and  our soul at times still craves that which is haram and whenever we cross the boundary of that which  is decent, that which is good into that which is haram, that which is wrong, that which is in the  sunnah, then we are fulfilling an animalistic urge that we are ordered and have been given the  ability to restrict because of our humanness. So Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us to lower  our gaze from looking at something that is inappropriate. Why? Because you are different  to other animals. You are able to restrict yourself from something that isn't just an  urge that I can do whatever I want whenever I want, right? The Prophet ﷺ, you know, he tells us  that before the day of judgment there will come a time where people will lose that sense of shame,  that sense of morality and it will be as if they will commit sin and vulgar actions in the middle  of public streets the way animals do, the way dogs do, the way other animals do. May Allah  protect us. So the first type of category of sins that we're going to look at are the sins of desire  where we are ordered and have been given tools to restrict ourself and have been taught how to  have and develop self-control. The second type of sins is not of actions in a physical nature,  it's that of the mind and the intellect, it's that of thoughts and that is called shubuhat,  doubts. There are certain things that we say, I'm not really sure. We doubt Jannah. A person might  doubt hellfire. A person might not understand why something is haram and therefore say, well,  I don't understand it so I'm not going to do it. Or a person might have in their heart, well,  you know, they doubt why everybody else is doing it. Why can't I be like them? So they doubt the  scripture that was sent to the Prophet ﷺ. And those two main branches, the desires and the  doubts are the two types of sins that any human being can perform. Any sin that you think of is  going to be in one of them. Some of them are in both, right? And all of the major sins, all of  the minor sins, and we'll talk about the difference between the two shortly, all of them come under  these two branches. Islam was sent to protect five important things for us. It was sent to protect  our faithfulness in God, that we don't worship anything but Allah. So Islam taught us how to  pray and who not to pray to, who is Allah, who is not Allah, and what are the things that make us  knowing of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. And you can go back to the series, Me, Myself, and Allah,  to understand this more about…

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