Category: Sins

Television has become the most common way of entertainment and amusement today. It has replaced many physical activities, like sports and reading, which were previously utilized by people to spend their leisure time. However, television is not the correct substitute for those activities, which besides entertaining also enhance skills and talents. Research performed on the impact of television undoubtedly prove its ill effects upon the viewers! Moreover, most part of the entertainment programs displayed on television transgress Islamic bounds…     The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) said: “Everything with which a man amuses himself is Baatil (baseless, null and impermissible) – except three, his practicing with bow (and

  Allah Ta’ala states in the Quraan: “And whatsoever of affliction which befalls on you is owing to that which your hands earned; and He pardons much.” (Surah Shura – 30) “Corruptness has appeared on land and sea, because of that which man’s hands have earned, so that He may make them taste a part of that which they have done, in order that haply they may return.”(Surah Room – 41)(Ma’aariful Qur’aan vol 6-p738, vol 7 p696)   1) Comitting sins willfully Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alaihi Wasalaam) said: ‘Man is deprived of sustenance and provision on account of committing sin and disobedience willfully.’ (Musnad -e- Ahmad)   2) Cheating & deceiving

Abu Dawud reported that the Prophet (Sallallaahu Alaihi Wasalaam) said,“Allah has cursed wine, and whoever drinks it, pours it, buys it, presses it for another, presses it for himself, carries it or accept its delivery.” (Ahmad and At-Tabarani)         Allah, Most High says, {O ye who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, sacrificing to stones and (divination by) arrows, is an abomination, of Satan’s handiwork: Eschew such (abomination) that ye may prosper. Satan’s plan is (but) to excite enmity and hatred between you, with intoxicants and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allah, and from Prayer: will ye not then abstain?} (Al-Ma’idah: 90-91)        

Pornograpahy: Why it is Haram & How to deal with it? Definition of Pornography?   Pornography is defined in the English language as an indecent form of art or literature. Islam also views it as indecent and terms it as faahisha in the Quran. Allah Ta’ala says (what means): “Say: The things that my Lord has indeed forbidden are: shameful deeds whether open or secret…”(Qur’an 7:33) Faahishah is translated as “shameful deeds” because it refers to every bad deed that is noticeably ugly to human beings. In many places in the Quran, Allah (Subhaanahu WaTa’ala) refers to zinaa, adultery and fornication as a faahishah. In another verse, Allah (Subhaanahu WaTa’ala)