# Understanding Major Sins in Islam | Servants of the Most Merciful Ep. 6

**Author:** Dr. Omar Suleiman
**Series:** Servants of the Most Merciful
**Published:** 2026-01-12
**YouTube:** https://youtu.be/64Y51jH2wnw
**URL:** https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/servants-of-the-most-merciful/understanding-major-sins-in-islam-servants-of-the-most-merciful-ep-6
**Topics:** Acts of Worship, Sharia

## Description
Major sins do not happen overnight. Dr. Omar Suleiman expands on verse 25 of Surah Furqan, “They are˺ those who do not invoke any other god besides Allah, nor take a ˹human˺ life—made sacred by Allah—except with ˹legal˺ right, nor commit fornication. And whoever does ˹any of˺ this will face the...

## Chapters
- 0:00 Slipping into sins
- 9:34 What is your lowest point?
- 14:07 List of major sins in Islam
- 20:10 The 3 worst sins of an ignorant society
- 32:23 Does seeing sins still bother you?
- 39:58 Sins that build up to a major sin

## Transcript
**[0:00]** I want to welcome you all back to the series on Ibadur Rahman, the servants of the Most Merciful.

**[0:16]** Alhamdulillah, we are now on Halaqah 6 and I believe now we will have a consistent 5 week inshaAllah ta'ala program to wrap up the second half of these verses about Ibadur Rahman bi-idhnillah ta'ala, about the servants of the Most Merciful.

**[0:34]** And I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make us amongst them, Allahumma ameen. I want to remind you all, you have an assignment which is to memorize these verses. It's not hard. Make it a pre-Ramadan bi-idhnillah ta'ala, especially as you are studying the tafsir of these verses, memorize these verses.

**[0:50]** Recite them in salah until you have them inshaAllah ta'ala committed and bi-idhnillah ta'ala you will see an effect of them in your everyday life. So today we get to the verse where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, ba'du a'udhu billahi minash shaitanir rajim

**[1:06]** wal ladheena la yad'uuna ma'allahi ilahan aakhara wala yaqtuluna an nafsa latee harrama allahu illa bilhaqq wala yaznoon waman yaf'al dhalika yalqa athama Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, and those who do not call upon any other deity

**[1:24]** beside Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, nor do they take the life which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has forbidden, nor do they commit zina, nor do they fornicate or commit adultery. And whoever does so shall meet its equal penalty,

**[1:39]** yalqa athama. Now subhanAllah if you're reading this verse, you probably go, well, this is the easiest quality of Ibadur Rahman to not do. No shirk, no murder, no zina, I've got it, right? Very easy. But subhanAllah in the tafsir of these verses,

**[1:55]** there is actually some of the deepest reflections and finer points for the believer to reflect upon. First and foremost, the word du'a, the word du'a, wal ladheena la yad'uuna ma'allahi ilahan aakhara those that do not call upon a God

**[2:11]** beside Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. There are a lot of tafsir mentioned, remember this is a Meccan context. And so it especially magnifies the point that Allah azawajal is putting forth that ad-du'a huwa al-ibadah,

**[2:27]** that du'a is in fact ibadah, supplication is in fact worship, supplication is in fact worship. So much so that at the end of these verses, qul ma ya'ba'u bikum rabbi lawla du'akum say that my Lord has no need for you

**[2:42]** if it is not for your du'a. And Ibn Abbas radiallahu anhuma says, ay lawla imanukum, if it's not for your faith. So Allah used the word du'a to reflect faith altogether. Ad-du'a huwa al-ibadah, du'a is worship.

**[2:58]** And this shows you the essence of worship and in that process, the essence of Islam. And so it's important to actually solidify here, you know, subhanAllah that a person can find themselves on a very strange, steep decline

**[3:15]** where they find themselves going away from the essence of Islam. And this is especially true when it comes to the notion of du'a, making du'a to other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Someone say, I would never worship someone besides Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But then slowly, slowly, you know,

**[3:30]** and of course these are far away sects and things that can happen where you're taught to make du'a to this person and make du'a to this person and make du'a to this person instead. And I remember a brother who converted to Islam from Catholicism, he said, if this was what Islam was gonna be, I mean, if you would have told me this is Islam,

**[3:46]** I would have never left Catholicism, right? Like, what do you mean call upon this person and call upon that person and call upon this person? Of course, I'm talking about, you know, a small group. But what I'm saying is, is that a person can be taken away from the essence of ibadah, which is du'a.

**[4:03]** Who do you call upon? You call upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. You attach yourself to Allah. And when it came to the disbelievers of Mecca, they would say, we believe in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, but then they set up all these idols that they would call upon besides Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Right, and that's what Allah azawajal

**[4:19]** was admonishing and condemning in this process. Now, the scholars mentioned that of the many wisdoms and we're going to start to break down the wisdoms. Of the many wisdoms of this verse being situated here,

**[4:37]** is that these were traits that ibadah shaytan, the servants of the shaytan were defined by. These were traits that define the disbelievers. And sometimes you define yourself in contrast

**[4:56]** to the disbelievers. And you'll find this usage in the Quran. Those who don't do something and those who do something, right? So look at how Allah has described the believers with these noble, lofty, beautiful traits.

**[5:11]** And then look how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, and by the way, they don't do all of these immoral things that define your society. Sometimes we have to actually bring that to a modern context. I say that, subhanAllah, especially when you live

**[5:28]** in the insecurity of the Muslim world towards the West. What is at-taqaddum? What is progress? What represents superiority of a society? And you say, oh, mashAllah, they're so far ahead. In what? In what? What defines progress?

**[5:44]** How do you define a successful society? How do you define a society that can be defined as objectively superior to another? And we see this condition in the Muslim world today. And of course there is a programming here. There's a colonial programming here.

**[5:59]** That's far beyond the land grabs and the kidnapping of other people's presidents. Right? There's the colonialism of epistemology, right? The colonizing of epistemology, the colonizing of culture, the colonizing of religion. But ultimately that purges you into a deep sense

**[6:17]** of insecurity where you look at a free society and you say, that's a superior society. Really? But when you start to scrutinize with objective statistics, what are the rates of violence in that society?

**[6:33]** What are the rates of sexually transmitted diseases in that society? What does the family dynamic look like in that society? How would you define communal cohesion in that society? What does harmony look like in that society?

**[6:49]** Right? I'm from Texas where we all carry guns, right? How is that a morally superior society where you have to walk around with a gun because you're thinking about a mass shooting every moment, right? So what defines a morally superior society? So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala actually is belittling

**[7:07]** Meccan society at the time and saying, by the way, Ibadur Rahman who have these noble traits, it's enough for you to praise them because they don't do the stuff that you guys do. They don't fall into these immoral abominations that define your society.

**[7:23]** Shirk, idolatry, murder, and zina, and adultery. These are three dominant traits in Meccan society at the time. So that's the first thing that the ulama mention of the wisdoms of this. Why this sudden, like you're talking about qiyam al-layl and like, you know,

**[7:39]** restraint in the face of foolishness and anger and these, you know, all these noble traits. And then suddenly, and by the way, they don't murder and commit zina. To say we're not like that society, right? They're different from that. The second thing that the ulama mention

**[7:55]** is to say that they don't live lives of contradiction. And this is important. That you will find that there are people that manifest very noble traits. And sometimes the shaitan deludes them

**[8:11]** into covering serious moral abominations and hypocrisy, masking it by saying, well, at least I do all of these great things as well. So how many times is a philanthropist also a very strange figure in their personal lives?

**[8:30]** But in their minds, I write my check to Allah every year. I pay everyone off. I give charity. I do good things. Let me have my private, you know, immoralities. Let me have my private indiscretions where I can still commit zina. I can still do all these things. At least I'm still doing this stuff.

**[8:46]** How many times have great political leaders, may Allah protect us, great political leaders, right? Great activists. And I don't need to talk about the moral scandals that come out about, you know, figures even post-humously after they pass away. Muslim and non-Muslim, right? That lived lives of contradiction.

**[9:02]** And you can't let the shaitan fool you into thinking that because you do all of these great things, it gives you license to have all of these personal indiscretions. And that Allah azawajal will not take you to task for them. No, He will. He will. So Ibadur Rahman don't live lives of contradiction.

**[9:20]** That's the second thing. The third thing is the most obvious of them, which is that they refrain from the kabair. They refrain from the major sins. They refrain from the major sins.

**[9:35]** And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions the believers, alladhina yajtanibuna kabair al-ithmi wal-fawahisha illa al-lamam That one of the signs of the believer is that the believer leaves off the major sins and the shameless sins, but they have their slips.

**[9:53]** No one of us is perfect. No one of us is perfect. And you will commit mistakes on a regular basis. You're gonna have sins that pass through your tongue and that pass through your eyes and that pass through your ears throughout the day. And those sins are wiped out by general istighfar,

**[10:09]** general seeking forgiveness from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, specific istighfar, specific seeking forgiveness when you recognize the sin and the deeds that have cleansing qualities like your wudu and your salah, right? Wudu washes off the sins. Salah is like going into a river

**[10:26]** as the Prophet (ﷺ) said, five times a day. Those are al-lamam, those are the sins that the believer commits on a regular basis. And they try to stay far away from those sins as much as they can. But the believer does not fall into al-kabair wal-fawahisha,

**[10:43]** major sins and shameless sins, obscene sins. And this is important. When the Prophet (ﷺ) says, in an authentic hadith, he says, alayhi salatu wasalam, inna li kulli shay'in shirra wa li kulli shirratin fatrah

**[10:59]** faman kanat fatratuhu ila sunnati faqad ihtada waman kanat ila ghayri dhalika faqad halak He said, alayhi salatu wasalam, everything has a peak and then everything has a low point. So whoever has their low point in accordance with my sunnah,

**[11:15]** then they are guided. And whoever has their low point in accordance with other than that, then that person is destroyed. What is he talking about (ﷺ)? The shirra is when you are at your peak. For most of us, the shirra is when,

**[11:31]** when are you most at your peak as a Muslim? I know it's cold, you have to respond. Not that cold, Ramadan. It's Ramadan, right? Ramadan is where we're usually our best selves. And that's natural.

**[11:47]** That's natural. These are nafahat. These are seasons of mercy from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala where we exert ourselves further. It's actually natural that your shirra is in Ramadan or in the 10 days of Dhul Hijjah, right? Or if you're in Umrah or Hajj.

**[12:02]** It's natural that that's where your peak is. So the Prophet (ﷺ) did not actually say anything about the peak. He talked about the fatrah. He said, what does your low point look like as a Muslim? If in Ramadan, you're praying taraweeh and you're doing a khatm of Quran, but then outside of Ramadan,

**[12:18]** you're committing major sins, major obscene sins, then your low point is the problem. Your low point is the problem. So what the Prophet (ﷺ) is saying to us is that your low point has to be within something that is ma'qul. It's something that's acceptable.

**[12:35]** So as Al-Hafidh Ibn Rajab (رحمه الله) says very beautifully, he says for the believer, the low point could look like, and I'm paraphrasing what he says in Al-Mahajjah, a low point could look like not praying sunan, right? Some of the minor slips of the tongue, okay?

**[12:52]** Forsaking some of the voluntary deeds or even forsaking all the voluntary deeds, but not the fara'id. They don't forsake the five daily prayers, for example. So I don't go from praying taraweeh to not praying the five daily prayers and committing some of the minor slips, the sins that the believers naturally will commit

**[13:08]** as human beings, because all of you are khatta'un. All of you will make mistakes. All of us will make mistakes. Al-khayru al-khatta'ina at-tawwaboon. And the best of those who make mistakes are the ones that repent to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So the low point is what's being emphasized here. So the believers, yajtaniboon.

**[13:27]** They stay away from al-kabir. Now, if a believer falls into a kabirah, into a major sin, they're not kuffar, they're not disbelievers. This is from the Aqidah of Ahl as-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah, that we don't make takfir on a person for a major sin.

**[13:42]** Even if they commit multiple major sins, we don't call that person not Muslim. But you cannot get in the habit of slipping between major sins and good deeds, right? And may Allah protect us from ever falling into a major sin, Allahumma ameen.

**[13:58]** So that's the most obvious manifestation of this ayah and what it means for us. Now, the Prophet (ﷺ), he also named these three sins in particular.

**[14:13]** Alayhi salatu wasalam. Abdullah bin Mas'ud (رضي الله تعالى عنه) in a hadith that's mutafiq, it's narrated in the six books. Qala sa'altu rasool Allahi (ﷺ) ayyu dhanbi a'dham. I asked the Prophet (ﷺ), which of the sins are most severe?

**[14:32]** Qala an taj'ala lillahi nidan wahuwa khalaqak. Number one, that you associate a partner with Allah and he is the one that created you. Qultu thumma ayy, and then I said, and then which one? Qala thumma an taqtula waladaka khashyata an ya'kula ma'ak.

**[14:50]** The second thing is that you kill your son out of fear that he will eat with you. What does that mean? Killing your children out of poverty, right? Killing your children out of poverty. So murder is the sin, but the Prophet (ﷺ) mentioned

**[15:06]** the grossest manifestation of murder, which is to kill your own child out of fear that he will diminish your rizq, diminish your sustenance. Then I said, thumma ayy, I said then what, O Messenger of Allah? Qala thumma an tuzaniya halilata jarik.

**[15:22]** He said, then that you commit zina with the spouse of your neighbor. Zina is the crime, adultery is the crime, but the Prophet (ﷺ) took the grossest manifestation of that crime, right? Which is the neighbor. And of course, you know,

**[15:37]** if you think in those societies in particular, the neighbor is someone that you trust, the neighbor is like family, right? So there's such a violation and a betrayal that takes place if there's infidelity that's committed, even between neighbors. So the ulama mentioned, again,

**[15:54]** the Prophet (ﷺ) is mentioning the three crimes that are highlighted in the verse, but he's taking them to their worst manifestation, (ﷺ), right? Now, what are the major sins in Islam anyway?

**[16:11]** There are a few names that I want you to remember, or a few categories that I want you to remember. The first one is the category that's known as al-mubiqat. Al-mubiqat. Mubiqat literally means something that destroys you, destructive sins, al-mubiqat.

**[16:28]** And the Prophet (ﷺ), he says in authentic hadith, ijtanibu al-mubiqat. Avoid the seven destructive sins. Avoid the seven destructive sins. Qalu ya Rasulallah wa ma hunn.

**[16:45]** They said, oh, messenger of Allah, what are the seven destructive sins? Qal al-shirk billah, to associate a partner with Allah. Then he said, al-sihr, sorcery. Then he said, (ﷺ), wa qatlu nafs illati harrama Allah, illa bilhaqq,

**[17:02]** to kill someone or to take a life that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has sanctified, except in truth. Then he said, wa aklu riba, to consume riba, to consume usury. You know, the thing about usury, subhanAllah, and riba is that it doesn't have the obvious public disgust

**[17:22]** as some of the other sins, which is why it's so dangerous and destructive, right? That a person could be living a whole life of riba, but mashAllah, they pray, mashAllah, they do this, mashAllah, they do that. No one looks at them and thinks bad Muslim, right? But they're actually committing one of,

**[17:39]** not just the major sins, al-mubiqat, one of the most destructive of the major sins. They're going to war with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala over riba, over their finances. Then he said, (ﷺ), wa aklu mal al-yateem, to consume the wealth of an orphan.

**[17:54]** You could broaden this category to say that you're exploiting, it's exploitation, the sin of exploitation. Exploiting someone who is downtrodden by taking their money or taking their right, okay? But particularly al-yateem. Then he said, (ﷺ),

**[18:10]** wa tawalli yawm az-zahf, to turn away from the battlefield. It's a major sin. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us. Allahumma ameen. We don't know what the future holds, right? But to turn away and to flee from the battlefield. Then he said, (ﷺ),

**[18:27]** wa qadhfu al-muhsanati al-mu'minati al-ghafilat. He said, (ﷺ), that to accuse a pure believing and unaware woman or to even think something about her,

**[18:42]** to accuse her in regards to zina, right? To make a claim against a pure and chaste woman. So these are mubiqat. These are considered the destructive sins. He said, (ﷺ). Now, this is what I want you to remember.

**[19:01]** What's the word that I was using even for major sins? This is very important for you, by the way. And even if it doesn't feel like it right now, I promise I'll get to the point. What's the word that you usually use to describe major sins? Al-kabair.

**[19:16]** Kabair. Big, literally, major sins, right? What's the difference between kabair and mubiqat? Anybody know? BarakAllahu fik, ahsant.

**[19:32]** Got it right away, mashallah. Maybe because he's cold and he wanted to spare you all. Mubiqat is a subcategory of kabair. Kabair, major sins, the ulama differ as to how many they are.

**[19:47]** Imam al-Dhahabi, (رحمه الله), has a whole collection on the major sins. Ibn Abbas, (رضي الله عنه), counts, I believe, 17 of major sins. And he just lists them out. It's not that they're the only major sins. It's that there are multiple major sins and the mubiqat are the most destructive

**[20:05]** of the major sins, okay? So the three that Allah azawajal is mentioning here are normalized, obscene,

**[20:20]** and the worst of major sins in jahili society, in a society of ignorance. And by the way, since we're gonna, if we're gonna use that standard to judge a society, all right, you know how you have all these like indexes

**[20:36]** of the happiest countries in the world and countries of this and countries of that? You go ahead and do this exercise at home. Take these three categories, shirk, murder, and zina, and then make your own index of societies. And then ask yourself if the way that you calibrate the world is the same way that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala defines it. All right?

**[20:56]** So these are the three most backwards elements of a society. A society of shirk, a society of murder, a society of zina, a society of adultery. Some of those countries that rank at the top of progress would be at the very bottom of Allah azawajal's index of what a good society looks like. Right?

**[21:14]** SubhanAllah, like I was, I'm just coming from the UK and there were church bells that were ringing. And the brother that was driving me, he said, I don't even know where the churches are anymore on the street. Right? I don't like, I haven't heard church bells for a while because like society's dipping in atheism at this point. Right?

**[21:31]** The churches are emptying out, you know, like you think about the decline, what decline looks like in a society and how Allah azawajal defines a society. But let's go to Mecca for a moment. The first one is shirk, to associate a partner with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

**[21:48]** So the ulama of tafsir, they have a very lengthy and interesting discourse on this. Allah azawajal is talking about sins that are obviously immoral and disgusting. So why would he bring shirk, which the Arabs didn't really see as a problem. The Arabs didn't have a problem with idolatry.

**[22:05]** They said two things. Number one, by putting shirk in the category of zina and murder, it dawns upon you the gravity of shirk. And let's be real.

**[22:21]** We can become desensitized to shirk, just like we can become desensitized to zina, just like we can become desensitized to these things. Right? It's like a brother was telling me, he said like, I went on a trip and, you know, I took this selfie with a giant Buddha statue and then I asked myself, wait a minute, what did I just do?

**[22:39]** He was telling me, he's like being very open and honest about himself. He's like, hold on, what did I just do? Right? In the sense like, what have we normalized and what have we become okay with? And so when we start to belittle the gravity of shirk, and that's why people would be like, well, you know, what's the big deal with shirk?

**[22:56]** A person does everything else, but they commit shirk. What's the big deal? Why would Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala take that person into account and punish them? What's the big deal? So Allah azawajal is creating a moral disgust around shirk. What's more criminal? What's worse than denying the one who brought you into existence?

**[23:14]** What's worse than that? So don't normalize it. That's the first thing that the ulama of tafsir mentioned. Second thing is that it's really interesting that the Arabs themselves, even though they set up idols everywhere, they really didn't have yaqeen in their shirk.

**[23:31]** They didn't have certainty in their shirk. What does that mean? They kind of all knew deep down inside that these idols are a joke, that it's a scam. It's to take advantage of people. These are means of exploitation. This is how we claim tribal superiority. They didn't really believe that their idols had power.

**[23:48]** And Allah azawajal was calling them out on that. That you know how disgusting and weird this all is. And the proof of that, as the scholars mentioned, when Abraha marched on Mecca to destroy the Ka'bah, they didn't call upon the idols.

**[24:04]** They called upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And the Prophet (ﷺ), when he talked to Imran ibn Husayn's father, (رضي الله عنهما), said, how many gods do you worship? He said, seven. One of them in the heavens, six on earth. Prophet (ﷺ) said, which one do you really have hope in?

**[24:21]** When things go bad, who do you really have hope and fear in? He said, the one in the heavens. He said, so leave the six on earth and just focus on the one in the heavens. Like you know that there's something very weird about this. And the Arabs, you know, in their lack of reverence for their idols, if they worshipped an idol, if they called upon an idol and they asked the idol for kids, or they asked the idol for money, and they didn't get what they wanted, they just threw that idol away and put another one there.

**[24:47]** They knew it. Like they knew it was weird. They knew it was fake. They knew that these idols actually had no power on their own. But they went with the religious scam because the religious scam offered them material benefit. Right?

**[25:02]** We get to claim tribal superiority here and tribal superiority there. So Allah is saying, you know how evil this is because you know that these idols are really just access to your lower shahawat, to your lower desires. So you could take advantage of people and you could claim all sorts of things that Allah has not given to you.

**[25:21]** As for murder, murder is the most universal evil that exists in the history of man. Even murderers know that murder is wrong. Right? Like every system of society, at least on paper, will tell you murder is wrong.

**[25:37]** Okay? But they'll put exceptions to the rule, of course. Okay? But murder is a universal evil. And Allah is pointing that out. Zina is, you know, adultery is universally supposed to be looked at as undignifying.

**[25:55]** Undignifying. And by the way, one of the signs of time is when it no longer is looked at as such. And I'll get to that. Right? But that zina is not really that big of a deal. You know? Like this person commits zina.

**[26:10]** This person has multiple affairs. This person has multiple whatever it is. Oh, that's all right. Not a big deal. That person is still qualified to be a moral authority in society. Is not scandalized as a celebrity. Is still qualified to be the president of the United States of America.

**[26:26]** Okay? That person is still qualified. It's okay. Right? Let's not even talk about that. No, I'm not even going to go there. All right? Let's put that aside. But like zina is kind of like, ah, whatever. Brush it under the rug. Not that big of a deal. Okay? So historically speaking, though, zina is at the bare minimum not dignifying.

**[26:48]** Not dignifying. Slowly. Right? And subhanAllah, the ulama mention something in particular here just to take you to Meccan society so you can appreciate how transformative Islam actually was.

**[27:03]** And it brings all of these things together. There were two idols that if you walked into Mecca at the time of the Prophet (ﷺ), they set up one idol on Safa, set up another idol on Marwah. The idols were named Isaf and Na'ilah.

**[27:20]** Isaf and Na'ilah. Okay? So you did tawaf with these idols. You touched these idols for barakah. Who are Isaf and Na'ilah? They're two people from the time of Jurhum that were in the haram, a man and a woman.

**[27:36]** And when they noticed that no one was around, they committed zina. They committed adultery. So Allah (ﷻ) turned them into stone. Allah punished them by turning them into stone. These two people, a man and a woman, followed the logic of shirk.

**[27:55]** Initially, people took that as a warning, so they left these stones here as a warning against committing zina. But as time went on, another generation came and another generation came, and they just included them amongst the idols and started touching these stones for blessing and considering them to be amongst the gods.

**[28:15]** And Allah is showing them, how far have you people gone? And by the way, this is one of the tafasir of innas safa wal marwata min sha'airillah. This is the first when Allah (ﷻ) praises Safa and Marwah and sa'i, because they had infested the road between Safa and Marwah with so much shirk that the Muslims were unsure.

**[28:35]** Like, do we do sa'i between Safa and Marwah or not? And that's why when you start your sa'i, you recite innas safa wal marwata min sha'airillah. That just like they polluted tawaf and just like they corrupted the most sanctified places and they set up idols around the home and inside a home that was built for the worship of Allah (ﷻ),

**[28:53]** they corrupted as-Safa and Marwah and these are indeed from the things that Ibrahim (ﷺ) was taught in tawheed. This is the place that our mother Hajar ran from place to place calling upon Allah (ﷻ) as one God.

**[29:08]** Okay, so the point is that these are three things that are, you know, obviously immoral. They're disgusting and there's a connection that Allah (ﷻ) is making between the three. Another benefit that the scholars mention is that if you look at the maqasid al-shari'ah, the objectives of Islamic law,

**[29:30]** these three things are contradicting the first three of the maqasid, the first three of the objectives of Islamic law. The first one is hifdh al-deen, the preservation of religion.

**[29:48]** So shirk is undermining the first maqsid, the preservation of religion. The second maqsid is the preservation of life, al-nafs.

**[30:03]** And so killing, murder is undermining the preservation of life. The third one is hifdh al-nasl, al-'ird, honor, lineage. And zina undermines the preservation of honor, specifically lineage.

**[30:22]** So that's another benefit that the scholars mention of these three particular sins. Another benefit they mention is that if you look at the three major signs or three of the most major signs of the Day of Judgment,

**[30:37]** three major signs of the Day of Judgment, remember, alamatu sa'ah represent basically a reversal of everything the Prophet (ﷺ) taught. You have mindless shirk, you have mindless murder, you have mindless zina.

**[30:55]** Unrestricted shirk, unrestricted murder, unrestricted zina. These are three major signs of society's decline towards the end of time. The Prophet (ﷺ) mentioned that the hour will not be established until the women of Daws are circling the Ka'bah once again in idol worship,

**[31:17]** and they're dancing in indecent fashion. The return of idolatry, right? In the most sacred of places, right? And we could get into an interpretation about what idols actually look like. You get the point. Okay?

**[31:32]** Unrestricted shirk. So shirk returns and it's mindless idol worship, mindless idolatry. The second one is mindless murder. The Prophet (ﷺ) said that there will come a time that there is so much murder. Al-Harj, alayhi salatu wa salam, he used the word harj, which was actually the origin of that word was from Abyssinia.

**[31:53]** So what is al-harj? He said al-qatl, murder, that there will come a time where there's so much murder that the one who is killing and the one who's being killed, neither of them know why the murder is happening. Al-qatil wal-maqtul. Think about that. Like people are killing so easily that they don't know why they're even killing.

**[32:11]** And the one who's being killed doesn't know why he was just killed. It makes no sense whatsoever. And the third one is mindless zina. Immodesty and adultery to the point.

**[32:26]** SubhanAllah, like every time you read these hadiths, Sadaqa Rasulullah (ﷺ). How truthful is he? That there will come a time that two people are committing zina and the most decent and righteous person amongst them simply says,

**[32:44]** Would you mind? Can you move to the side? You know what I think of when I read that hadith? Scroll. The most decent person is the one who scrolls. The most decent person is like, I don't mind that this is happening. Just can you not do it in front of me, please?

**[33:00]** They don't do inkar. So the most decent person is the one who says, can you please do it outside of my sight? And this shows you that the believer cannot normalize evil to where they say, Oh, it's okay if alcohol is being drunk and it's okay if people are committing adultery.

**[33:17]** As long as we're not seeing it, it's okay. Kuntum khayra ummatin ukhrijat linnas. You're an ummah that was produced for the people. Your job description is ta'muruna bil ma'rufi wa tanhawna 'anil munkar wa tu'minuna billah.

**[33:34]** You're enjoying good and you're forbidding evil and you believe in Allah. No, collectively as an ummah, we don't take a step back and say, These are just conditions of humanity and oh well. As long as you know, mashallah, we build our little bubble here and it doesn't affect our bubble.

**[33:49]** We're okay. No, these are conditions of fasad on earth and the believer has to hate it at the very least in their heart. And if you no longer hate it in your heart, and by the way, it's one of, let's be real here. Like, does it disgust you anymore?

**[34:04]** Does it bother you anymore? Right? When you see indecency, do you at least kind of cringe on the inside and say, a'udhu billah? Or is it just like, oops, scroll next. Scroll next. If you even scroll.

**[34:19]** That's a heart problem. That's a heart problem. Where you have to find repulsion from everything that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala finds repulsive. That's Ibadur Rahman. Ibadur Rahman. And subhanAllah, when Allah azawajal mentions about shirk, takadu samawat, that the heavens will burst and everything will fall apart.

**[34:42]** Why? What did they do? How dare they ascribe to ar-Rahman? A partner, a child. No, this bothers me. It bothers me when people drink alcohol. The zina bothers me. The corruption of social media bothers me.

**[34:57]** This all bothers me. I have to hate it on the inside of my heart or else something is wrong with my iman. Ibadur Rahman. They don't like this. And they want to stop it. And if they can't stop it, then they really hate it. They really despise that it's happening.

**[35:14]** Another benefit, dear brothers and sisters, is to realize that these sins don't just appear overnight. Like no one wakes up one day and says, I think I'm going to become a murderer when I grow up. Or at least most people don't.

**[35:29]** I think I'm going to be a murderer one day. Most normal people don't think that one day I'm going to commit zina. One day I'm going to commit adultery. I'm talking about especially amongst the Muslims, by the way, amongst the believers. They don't think one day I'll commit shirk.

**[35:44]** What? These are not things that pop into your mind. But just like last halaqah when we talked about what is behind israf, what your spending habits say about you, let's actually unpeel the condition a bit. Shirk represents emptiness.

**[36:02]** Shirk represents emptiness. That a person does not have sufficient ta'alluq billah, sufficient commitment to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Murder is the worst manifestation of uncontrolled anger.

**[36:17]** Most murders are not premeditated. Do you understand? Most murders happen in the heat of the moment. People get into it. They don't know how to control their anger. Their anger gets the best of them.

**[36:33]** They have access to a tool of murder. Violence happens. So shirk is the worst outcome of emptiness. A heart that has nothing of Allah azawajal in it. Murder is the worst outcome of uncontrolled anger.

**[36:50]** Zina is the worst outcome of unrestrained lust. Shahwah, a person who is led by their shahwah. And Allah azawajal never just talks about the destination. He talks about the road.

**[37:06]** Wa la taqrabu zina. Wa la tatabi'u khutuwatu shaytaan. Don't follow this path. Don't follow this path. Because it could lead you to a place that you would have never expected to be. Don't wait until you're on the cliff about to jump off. Identify the road to that cliff and ask yourself, am I taking these steps?

**[37:25]** To where, wal 'iyadhu billah, I commit an act of shirk. I commit an act of zina. I commit an act of murder. And you know, like, subhanAllah, you think about how people don't realize how they get lost in these things.

**[37:42]** I just gave a talk in London. And inshaAllah ta'ala it will come out, bi-idhnillahi ta'ala, in the next few days. About new age spirituality. And you can read about new age spirituality. And how it plagues our social media. How it plagues our thinking. Where you start to assign the supernatural to what Allah azawajal created as natural phenomenons.

**[38:02]** And you slowly drift away from what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sanctified. And you start becoming the sanctifier. You start becoming the dictator of energy and whatever it may be. These are problems, right?

**[38:17]** Horoscopes, astrology, right? These things start to take over a person. And they're slippery slopes. And you don't think that you would ever commit shirk. But it can happen, right? And shaitan has a pathway. So just like Allah azawajal says, don't follow the footsteps of shaitan when it comes to zina.

**[38:36]** Wa la taqrabu zina. What is shaitan's challenge to Allah azawajal? They say, I'm going to get them to commit shirk right away. No, I'm going to teach them. La yughayyiran khalq Allah. I'll teach them to change the creation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

**[38:51]** To start altering themselves. Start altering the creation of Allah. Cutting the ear of an an'am, right? Cut the ear of a cow or a rabbit's tooth and put it on your chest and think that protection comes from that. These are the things that start to happen and they're slippery slopes.

**[39:07]** They're very dangerous. So Allah azawajal speaks to the road to the cliff, the road to the destination, not just the destination. A person who started to assign supernatural powers to things had a deficiency in their understanding of al-Qadir al-Muqtadir subhanahu wa ta'ala.

**[39:25]** Of Allah azawajal, the all powerful. That was a deficiency that led them down their path. They didn't trust al-Razzaq. They didn't trust the sustainer. And so they started to look to other things as sources of sustenance for them. So there is a weakness, a vulnerability that gets exposed and that eventually becomes a horrendous sin.

**[39:47]** So here's what I want us to do. I was thinking about how to make this the most practical bi-idhnillahi ta'ala and I realize it's cold and I don't want to hold you too long tonight bi-idhnillahi ta'ala. Take every single one of these sins and then break down the things that the Prophet (ﷺ) said are resembling of those things.

**[40:12]** So we already talked about the worst manifestations of those sins, right? And then the major sins themselves. Now let's go deeper. Al-shirk.

**[40:28]** From those who take partners besides Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala are those who love things the way they should love Allah. Prophet (ﷺ) authentic hadith in Muslim Imam Ahmad. The one who's addicted to alcohol is just like one who worships the idols.

**[40:47]** Not necessarily in the gravity of the sin, in the spirit of the sin. Your addiction to something that Allah azawajal prohibited is a dangerous sign of worship. You've enslaved yourself to a sin.

**[41:03]** Miserable and perished is the slave of the dirham, the slave of the dinar, right? The slave of money, the slave of gold, the slave of silver, the slave of silk. You've enslaved yourself to money when you become so addicted to it that you no longer have any regulations.

**[41:20]** You let it lead you and you make all your decisions in accordance with that money. What are you then? Are you an 'abd of Allah? Are you an 'abd of that money? Are you a slave of that money? So you look at the spirit of those sins and you start to ask yourself,

**[41:36]** what really captures my love? What captures my hope? What captures my love? What captures my fear? What captures my awe? Is it Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala or is it other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? If it's other than Allah, that doesn't mean I'm a mushrik, that doesn't mean I'm a kafir.

**[41:53]** But that means that there are spiritual diseases that resemble that horrible disease. The second one is murder. Wallahi, this one, this one should shake all of us.

**[42:10]** This one should shake all of us. You know why? Because there are things that resemble murder that are actually very common to us as Muslims. Let's go through them. First and foremost, the hadith of the Prophet (ﷺ) where he said, لَزَوَالُ الدُّنْيَا أَهْوَنُ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ مِنْ قَتْلِ رَجُلٍ مُسْلِمٍ

**[42:28]** The whole world, right? It's more severe that you would kill your brother, that you would kill your Muslim brother than the whole world in the sight of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And of course Allah 'azza wa jal mentions this in the Quran, right? And we quote it, to save one life is like saving all of mankind, to take one life is like taking the life of all of mankind.

**[42:46]** But the Prophet (ﷺ) did not just talk about the act of murder itself. He (ﷺ) said, سِبَابُ الْمُسْلِمِ فُسُوقٌ وَقِتَالُهُ كُفْرٌ

**[43:01]** That to abuse, to insult your Muslim brother is a form of fusuq, it's a form of corruption, wickedness. And to kill him is a form of disbelief.

**[43:16]** Okay? So there's a stepping stone. And if you realize how many analogies exist in the Quran and the Sunnah for killing your brother and sister, there are actually plenty.

**[43:32]** Can anyone tell me one in the Quran that's very obvious and that's very common to the believer? How often we kill our brothers and sisters? Gheebah أَيُحِبُّ أَحَدُكُمْ أَن يَأْكُلَ لَحْمَ أَخِيهِ مَيْتًا فَكَرِهْتُمُوهُ

**[43:49]** Does one of you like to consume the dead flesh of his brother or sister? When you speak ill of them, when you backbite. And what is gheebah? To say what is true about a person behind their back that they don't like. Beyond that is buhtan, nameemah, slander.

**[44:06]** And Allah azawajal likens that to eating their dead flesh. The Prophet (ﷺ) when he says that the believer is more sacred to Allah than the Ka'bah. دَمُهُ وَمَالُهُ وَعِرْضُهُ

**[44:25]** His life, his property, his honor. And so when you harm your brother or sister in their honor, it's close to killing them. Right? Like it's being likened to killing them.

**[44:40]** Another one that the Prophet (ﷺ) mentioned to us, and it's an authentic hadith. قَالَ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ هَجْرُ أَخَاهُ سَنَةً فَهُوَ كَسَفْكِ دَمِهِ Whoever abandons his brother for a year is like one who spilled his blood.

**[44:57]** It's an authentic hadith. Mu'adh (رضي الله عنه) Think about that. All right. We're not supposed to go more than how long without talking to our brother or sister? Three days. All right. Three days passes and we all know what happens that after a month, two months خَلَاص.

**[45:17]** Right? Prophet (ﷺ) said if you go a whole year abandoning your brother or sister, it's like you have physically spilled their blood. Okay. Why?

**[45:32]** Because remember the pathway to murder is anger. And then there's a second one. Dehumanization. Anger and dehumanization paired together.

**[45:48]** You don't have any worth for that person that you're hurting. SubhanAllah, the more that the distance grows between you and a person, the easier it becomes for you to talk about them without thinking about them. Because you dehumanize them. Right?

**[46:03]** And you think about the mass murderers of the world. Like I was watching this filthy Zionist. May Allah destroy them. Allahumma ameen. Someone you saw, the Zionist soldier, the occupation soldier that was shooting at Gaza.

**[46:18]** That's their happy new year shooting at random houses in Gaza. قَاتَلَهُمُ اللَّهُ But that's anger, dehumanization. That there are ingredients that make up murder. Do you understand?

**[46:33]** There are ingredients that make up murder. And sometimes as believers we manifest some of the elements of those ingredients. And Ibadur Rahman are to look inwards and to ask themselves, do I have any of these elements of anger, unrestrained anger or dehumanization or the capacity to harm my brother or sister in their honor or in their property, in their wealth.

**[46:57]** And eventually, la qadarallah, to even go to the full extent of killing them. The last one is zina. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, كُتِبَ عَلَى ابْنِ آدَمَ نَصِيبُهُ مِنَ الزِّنَا Every child of Adam has had written upon them some exposure to zina.

**[47:17]** Some exposure to zina. And you all know this hadith. He said, زِنَا الْعَيْنِ النَّظْرَةُ So for example, the zina of the eyes is seeing. زِنَا اللِّسَانِ And then the zina of the tongue is flirting. And then the zina of al-yad is al-batsh. The zina of the hand is to touch.

**[47:32]** And he said, زِنَا الرِّجْلِ The zina of the foot is to walk towards a path of zina. And he says, وَالْقَلْبُ يَهْوَى وَيَتَمَنَّى And the heart, the heart desires and it longs.

**[47:48]** And he said, وَيُصَدِّقُ ذَلِكَ الْفَرْجُ وَيُكَذِّبُهُ He said, (ﷺ), then the private part merely confirms what a person has let go unrestrained inside of the heart. Or it denies it. So this is the last, the major zina,

**[48:05]** the major act of zina is the last act, the last act of multiple minor forms of zina. And that's why someone thinks like pornography is harmless.

**[48:20]** It's not harmless. It's not harmless. SubhanAllah, it's destruction. It's destruction. And there is a definite connection between consumption of that and infidelity. Like even if you didn't read a single statistic in the world,

**[48:36]** you would know it's common sense. And all of these safeguards that Allah azawajal gave us of عَدَمِ الْخَلْوَةِ of not being alone with someone or, you know, speaking with decency and things of that sort are to protect us from falling into that.

**[48:51]** Because وَلَا تَقْرَبُوا الزِّنَا Don't come close to it. And Wallahi, even in a world, I'm just going to put this out there. In a world that mocks that today, right? That mocks the idea of not having boyfriend, girlfriend, of, you know,

**[49:08]** these seemingly archaic ways, we take pride in it. Say, Wallahi, these are protections and safeguards of society and they save families and they build families. Our laws of modesty are nothing to be ashamed of, dear brothers and sisters. Alhamdulillah for them.

**[49:24]** Alhamdulillah for these laws of modesty. They're good. They're objectively good things that come from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So a person should do muraqabah, should ask themselves, the zina of the eye, how long does my eye stick on something?

**[49:39]** How do I talk to someone from the opposite gender? Do I put myself in places where I will fall into these things that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has condemned? So zina is the last step of a long journey.

**[49:54]** There's a major zina that is being condemned here. But again, what are the ingredients? Lust is an ingredient. Exposure, overexposure to al-'awrat, to what people should be covering, is an ingredient.

**[50:12]** Right? Normalization of that exposure is an ingredient. Breaking the boundaries that Allah azawajal has set up between genders is an ingredient. So these are all ingredients of zina that we have to be willing to look to ourselves and say,

**[50:27]** before we get into this part, that we save ourselves from all of this. The last thing that I'll say on this ayah, bi-idhnillahi ta'ala, is that the salaf feared major sins, even though they were the furthest from it.

**[50:45]** Abu Huraira (رضي الله تعالى عنه), used to seek refuge in Allah from as-sariqah wa-zina, from committing theft or adultery. And you'd say, wait, what? How would Abu Huraira even think in his wildest imagination that one day he could fall into that?

**[51:02]** Right? And the idea is that a believer takes those precautions and they ask Allah azawajal for protection. Like, I can't even guarantee that I'm going to die as a Muslim. wa la tamutunn illa wa antum muslimoon. Don't die except as Muslims.

**[51:17]** You hear it in the khutbah. wa la tamutunn illa wa antum muslimoon. One of the du'as is that, Oh, caretaker of Islam and its people, hold me to Islam until I meet you still upon it. You want to die a Muslim. You want to die free from these things.

**[51:32]** You want to be careful. So the believer, even though they're furthest away in practice, they are closest to it in fear. And they ask Allah azawajal for protection. Also Ibn Abbas (رضي الله تعالى عنهما), it's narrated from,

**[51:48]** he said, la sagheerata ma'al israar wa la kabeerata ma'al istighfar. There is no such thing as a minor sin if you insist upon it. And there's no such thing as a major sin if you seek forgiveness from Allah for it. I'm going to say that again. The smallest sin, if you do it over and over and over again,

**[52:05]** and you have disregard for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, that becomes a kabeerah, it becomes a major sin because of what it represents of disregard towards the Lord. And the most major sin, if you sought forgiveness from Allah sincerely, Allah azawajal will remove it as if it never happened in the first place.

**[52:20]** It's again, your attitude to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Do you all have five minutes left in you? No, I'm serious. Like I know I see some of you are like icicles already. You know, it's not that cold. All right. You're not used to it.

**[52:35]** I get it. You know, alhamdulillah. InshaAllah you never have to get used to it. Okay. But look at the next ayah. Because I just want to clarify this inshaAllah. Next halaqah will be very hopeful, very beautiful.

**[52:50]** Here Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, yudha'af lahul 'adhabu yawmulqiyama wa yakhlud feehi muhana that as for those who commit these sins, their torment will be multiplied on the day of judgment,

**[53:05]** doubled, multiplied on the day of judgment, and they will abide in humiliation. Now, I'll first cover the last part of the verse inshaAllah. Muhana, humiliation. The ulema mention that of the wisdoms of Allah azawajal using that word is that

**[53:23]** these sins dishonor you in life and they dishonor you in the afterlife. On your record, like you don't want to be a murderer or a zani, right? An adulterer. Like these are dishonoring sins in this life and they're dishonoring sins in the next.

**[53:38]** But the question becomes, does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala punish a sin beyond its worth or its weight? No. Multiple ayahs. When Allah talks about Jannah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,

**[53:54]** jaza'an min rabbika 'ata'an hisaba that this is a reward from your Lord, 'ata'an hisaba. It's grace. It's extra. Allah azawajal multiplies good deeds. But Allah azawajal does not multiply sins. jaza'an wifaqa

**[54:09]** A sin is punished only to the extent of that sin. So a good deed is multiplied by 10 up to 700 or more. A sin is punished at max in its equivalent. So what does yudha'af here mean?

**[54:25]** How can Allah azawajal say it is multiplied? The ulema of tafseer say the following. Number one, that one sin is not punished twice, but multiple sins bring multiple punishments.

**[54:40]** And Allah just mentioned multiple sins. So some of them took it from a very balaghah, from a very linguistic perspective. They said Allah azawajal just mentioned three major sins. And so Allah azawajal mentioned three punishments, a multiplicity of punishments to match a multiplicity of sin.

**[54:58]** Other scholars, they said that these three sins, each one of them undermines a particular right. So shirk violates the right of Allah.

**[55:13]** Murder violates the human right to live of the other person. And zina violates the right of public order and virtue. And so yudha'af would mean what?

**[55:28]** That they would be punished for the elements of that sin. And so they take, for example, what the Prophet (ﷺ) mentioned, that every single time someone commits a murder, the first son of Adam who committed that murder, Cain and Abel, Qabeel and Habeel,

**[55:43]** gets a share of that murder. li'annahu awwal man sanna al-qatl Because he's the first one that normalized murder. So the effect of that sin, perhaps you don't capture the effect of that sin.

**[55:58]** And all of that comes back to you. May Allah azawajal protect us. And so yudha'af is in your estimation. Like you're not thinking about like, what's the big deal of this? You're not thinking about the consequences of those sins.

**[56:13]** Some of the scholars, they said, that the same sin can affect different parties. The same sin can affect different parties. So when it comes to a sin towards a person, how do you rectify a sin? al-ada' wal-musamaha

**[56:30]** You have to restore the right that you took from them and you ask them for forgiveness. With Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, it's al-maghfirah, it's one thing, it's forgiveness. You just ask Allah for forgiveness because you can't restore anything to Allah azawajal. You never could take anything from Allah in the first place.

**[56:45]** Okay? So what does this mean? When it comes to the rights of Allah and the rights of people, those two things are treated separately on the day of judgment. You might commit a sin that involves ma'siyah to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

**[57:01]** between you and Allah, but it doesn't involve other people. And you might commit a sin that involves Allah and involves other people. On the day of judgment, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will hold you accountable for both. As it relates to him, he may forgive it, subhanahu wa ta'ala.

**[57:17]** But as for the one that you harmed, their right will be established on the day of judgment. You know what this means, by the way, this is very important. Let's say that you backbite,

**[57:32]** or let's say that you hurt somebody and you ask them for forgiveness and they're just really forgiving people anyway, but you didn't really have regret, nadam, for that sin. The person forgave you, but maybe Allah azawajal didn't forgive you.

**[57:48]** Because you never actually satisfied the condition of an-nadamu tawbah, to feel bad about that sin and to seek forgiveness from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for that sin, right? The opposite could be that you hurt someone and then you say astaghfirullah, but you still have to go to that person.

**[58:03]** You still have to restore what you did to that person. So yudha'af, some of the scholars say, the multiple parties that are involved in these things. The point is, is that just like we cannot capture

**[58:18]** the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in any way when it comes to how he rewards our good deeds, sometimes we don't take into consideration the harm of our sins. Give you an example, one more example, inshaAllah ta'ala, that I'll end with this hadith.

**[58:35]** When you backbite in front of someone else, not only did you harm the person that you were backbiting, you caused your brother or your sister to maybe think that backbiting was okay now.

**[58:50]** So by the way, especially when it comes to us as parents, when your kids see you backbite, okay, mama and baba can do it. Then, I mean, they're the ones that taught me Islam in the first place. So you don't just carry the sin that you committed,

**[59:06]** you carry the sin that was imitated from your sin. Do you understand? So yudha'af. Consider the societal consequences of your sins is the message here. Consider the societal consequences of your sins. What are you normalizing with your sin?

**[59:22]** May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us. Allahumma ameen. The last hadith I'd leave you with, because the next halaqah is illa man taba wa amana wa 'amila saliha. It's about the forgiveness and mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Last hadith is what the Prophet (ﷺ) said

**[59:39]** in the authentic hadith from Bukhari from Abu Huraira (رضي الله تعالى عنه). I'll paraphrase the first part because it's not the part that I want to talk about, but he mentioned (ﷺ) that Allah azawajal created a hundred parts of mercy, 99 parts of mercy he stored for the day of judgment.

**[59:54]** Only one part of mercy he sent to this earth. So that's hopefulness, right? That 99% of Allah's mercy, we have not even experienced yet. Allah spared it for the day of judgment when we need it most. But the second part of the hadith about how we act as believers, as Ibadur Rahman.

**[1:00:11]** Qala (ﷺ) falaw ya'lamu al-kafiru bikulli alladhi 'inda Allahi mina ar-rahmah lam yay'as mina al-jannah If the disbeliever knew how much mercy Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has,

**[1:00:27]** then no disbeliever would despair from Jannah. Like no one would ever feel like Jannah is too far from them. If they knew how merciful Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala was, but he said on the other hand, because remember as believers, may Allah azawajal make us from Ibadur Rahman,

**[1:00:42]** from the highest quality of believers. We take ourselves to task. We hold ourselves accountable. Qala (ﷺ) walaw ya'lamu al-mu'minu bikulli alladhi 'inda Allahi mina al-'adhab lam yay'as mina al-jannah

**[1:00:57]** And if the believer knew of all of the punishments that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has on the day of judgment, then they would not feel safe from the fire. This goes back to the ayah of asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to protect you from 'adhaba jahannama

**[1:01:13]** inna 'adhabaha kana gharama to ask Allah for protection from the fire and balancing out hope and fear. So the message to the one who has despaired from Allah is the mercy of Allah is great. Don't despair from even in Jannah. You still have a chance and a pathway back to Jannah.

**[1:01:28]** The message to the one who is belittling the punishments of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and belittling sin in the process is don't feel safe from the punishment of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala just because you're a Muslim. And you could fall into the worst manifestations of these sins if you're not paying attention

**[1:01:45]** to their smallest manifestations and the diseases of the heart that eventually culminate in those pathways to those sins. May Allah azawajal protect us from all sins. ma zahara minha wa ma batan Those that are obvious and those that are hidden.

**[1:02:02]** The major sins and the minor sins, the public sins and the private sins, the sins that we have committed and the sins that we have yet to commit. May Allah azawajal forgive us for them all. And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala enter us into al-firdaws al-a'la. And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

**[1:02:17]** allow the best of our deeds to be the last of them and the best of our days to be in our end. Allahumma ameen. Jazakum Allahu khayran. Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Al-Fatihah.

## Other Episodes in "Servants of the Most Merciful"
- [Du’a for Marriage and Children | Servants of the Most Merciful Ep. 10](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/servants-of-the-most-merciful/servants-of-the-most-merciful-episode-10-dua-for-marriage-and-children.md)
- [How To Really Revere the Qur’an | Servants of the Most Merciful Ep. 9](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/servants-of-the-most-merciful/how-to-really-revere-the-quran-servants-of-the-most-merciful-episode-9.md)
- [Silence In The Face of Sin | Servants of the Most Merciful Ep. 8](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/servants-of-the-most-merciful/servants-of-the-most-merciful-ep-8-silence-in-the-face-of-sin.md)
- [How To Wipe Out Your Sins | Servants of the Most Merciful Ep. 7](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/servants-of-the-most-merciful/how-to-wipe-out-your-sins-servants-of-the-most-merciful-episode-7.md)
- [What Your Spending Habits Say About You | Servants of the Most Merciful Ep. 5](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/servants-of-the-most-merciful/what-your-spending-habits-say-about-you-servants-ep-5.md)
- [How Believers Protect Themselves from Pride | Servants of the Most Merciful Ep. 4](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/servants-of-the-most-merciful/how-believers-protect-themselves-from-pride-servants-of-the-most-merciful-ep-4.md)
- [Those Who Bow When the World Sleeps | Servants of the Most Merciful Ep. 3](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/servants-of-the-most-merciful/those-who-bow-when-the-world-sleeps-servants-of-the-most-merciful-ep-3.md)
- [Training Your Temper and Responding to Insults | Servants of the Most Merciful Ep. 2](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/servants-of-the-most-merciful/training-your-temper-and-responding-to-insults-servants-of-the-most-merciful-ep-2.md)
- [Those Who Walk on the Earth Humbly | Servants of the Most Merciful Ep. 1](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/servants-of-the-most-merciful/those-who-walk-on-the-earth-humbly-servants-of-the-most-merciful-ep-1.md)