Lying, Backbiting, and Boycott — Permissible & Prohibited
- The ruling on lying
- Lying and giving false testimony
- Lying to ward off oppression
- Lying to protect property
- A false oath
- A false claim
- Filing a false lawsuit to escape a false lawsuit
- A case to wrongfully entrap someone
- Applying for 25 kg of sugar in order to get 5 kg
- Declaring oneself married to avoid tax
- Attributing lying for the sake of benefit to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ
- Calling a liar a liar
- Claiming to be a resident of Dhampur while living elsewhere
- How a tale-bearer should repent
- Persisting in an accusation despite an oath on the Quran
- Blaming God for one’s own deeds
- How to repent from slander
- The punishment for slander in the Hereafter
- The imam, salam in the mosque, insulting the imam, and superiority by descent
- The classification of showing off (riyaʾ)
- The ruling on several forms of backbiting
- Backbiting a fasiq
- A spiritual guide backbiting his disciples
- Backbiting and reviling the dead
- How to obtain forgiveness for backbiting
- Harbouring rancour against a Muslim
- Belittling and disgracing another person
- Keeping one’s own word above others
- Considering oneself great and another contemptible
- Looking down on one who acts on a ruling of the Shariʿa
- The ruling on breaking a promise
- Breaking a promise
- Breaking a promise in a guarantee
- Breaking a promise and the expiation for an oath
- Evading payment for work done and an oath to forgo one’s right
- Making a pledge of reform and then breaking it
- Promising to give land to another and then refusing
- The sign of hypocrisy
- When is breaking a promise a sign of a hypocrite?
- Punishment by boycott imposed by the members of the community council
- Boycotting one who does not pray
- Severing relations with someone who did not lend support
- Ceasing to speak with someone for fear of harm to one’s religion
- The limit for not speaking to someone because of a grievance
- Severing relations with a disobedient person
- Severing relations with those who make ta‘ziyas (replicas of Imam Husayn’s tomb carried in Muharram processions)
- Boycotting those who held an improper gathering
- Severing relations with relatives who commit major sins
- Relations with relatives engaged in major sins
- Severing relations with one who unjustly dishonours others
- Ceasing association for fear of suspicion
- Punishing a wife’s abductor by the community severing relations
- A son-in-law and mother-in-law expelled by the community over an illicit relationship
- Helping an adulterer is also a sin; severing relations with such a person
- The difference between tawba and istighfar; severing relations with an adulterer and adulteress
- Eating and drinking at the house of someone under a declared boycott
- Expelling someone from the community council
- How to act upon “We cast off and forsake whoever disobeys You”
- The effect of a boycott on the deceased
- Boycotting a Muslim
- Doing good to a neighbour who is a thief or a robber
- Giving illegitimate children a place in society
- The ruling on opposing the jama‘at of the biradari (a kinship or caste community)
- One should keep in contact even with someone who acts wrongly
- The definition of repentance
- Forgiveness of a major sin without repentance
- Persisting in a major sin
- Repentance according to the sin
- Forgiveness of the rights of people through repentance
- Allah Most High will not forgive the rights of people
- Refusing to forgive one who asks forgiveness for the sake of Allah, and forgiving for money
- Repentance for a sin — before Allah or before the community elders
- What is a sin in itself
- Suicide
- The punishment for suicide
- The sin of suicide
- Is there the sin of suicide in drinking poisoned palm wine?
- Killing a kafir
- Which sin is greater: fornication or arrogance?
- Burning an effigy
- Zina with one’s brother’s wife
- Masturbation
- Zina, sodomy and masturbation are forbidden
- Killing one’s wife for fear of the enemy
- Killing someone for the sake of property
- When does the threat of Hell apply to both the killer and the killed?
- Helping the killed and the killer
- Helping a killer
- Killing an oppressor
- Retaliation against an oppressor
- Killing a flagrant oppressor
- Helping an oppressor
- Assisting an impermissible act is also impermissible
- Siding with someone in sin
- Sodomy under coercion
- Are iniquity and depravity innate?
- The ruling on a person who makes others drink urine
- Sowing division in the community
- What is the way out of distress?
- The remedy for successive calamities
- Forgiving abuse, and making oneself head of the community
- Withdrawing from an arbitrator after having accepted him
- Asking forgiveness by clasping someone’s feet
- Harassing Muslim orphans
- Prohibited things differ from one another
- The punishment for showing off (riya’)
- Repentance for touching the Qur’an without wudu’ and entering the mosque without ghusl
- The punishment for one who breaks a pledge
- If repentance suffices for a sin, why is it punished?
- Is theft a right of Allah or a right of people?
- Giving charity to complete repentance