WHAT GOD HAS FORBIDDEN

This is essential knowledge for Sufis (& indeed all Muslims!). After the five daily prayers, all Sufi aspirants must know this. Then they should try and add the night prayer (tahajjud).

Traditionally these are divided into the major and lessor sins, but I have avoided that classification.

Pray that God gives this faqeer perseverance on the Path!

(The references given in parentheses are from the Holy Qur'an, as follows: chapter name/verse number)

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1. Associating partners with the One True God. (Sura Nisa 48)
2. Murder (Nisa 92-93)
3. Adultery-all extra marital sexual acts (Bani Israel 32)
4. Homosexual acts (Anbiya 74, Ankabut 28-29) inc. Lesbianism (Nisa 15)
5. Indecency & Obscenity (A'raf 33) inc. nudity in public which the Prophet PBUH said is the navel to the knees for men, and the whole body except face, feet & hands for women. also looking at the same of one who is not one's spouse or parent/child etc. (Nur 30-31)
6. Usury and Interest (Baqara 275)
7. Bribery etc. (Baqara 188)
8. Theft/ Stealing (Mai'da 38-39)
9. Pride...including speaking in a loud boastful tone! (Luqman 18-19)
10. Alcohol & other intoxicants (Baqara 219)
11. Gambling (Baqara 219)
12. Slander/ character assassination (Ahzab 58, Humuzah 1-4)
13. False accusation (Nisa 112)
14. Backbiting (Nisa 148, Hujurat 12)
15. Lying (Momin 28)
16. False oaths (Aale Imran 77)
17. Spreading news without verification (Nisa 83)
18. Secret councils & conspiracies (Mujadila 10)
19. Suspiciousness, (Hujurat 12)
20. To spy on someone/look for faults in someone (Hujurat 12)
21. To ridicule someone, defame someone, insult with nicknames (Hujurat 11)
22. Anger--other than for the sake of God, His Signs & His loved ones. (Shura 36)
23. Jealousy, covetousness (Nisa 32)
24. Hypocrisy, pretending to be one thing & being another (Nisa 145)
25. Betrayal of Trust (Anfal 27)
26. To desire the life of the world & its pomp, Hedonism (Hud 15-16)
27. To amass wealth (Tauba 34-35)
28. To love material wealth ('Aadiyat 8-9)
29. Hoarding and not giving (Layl 8-11)
30. Thanklessness (Ibrahim 7)
31. Sectarianism (Aale Imran 105)
32. Discord, To deliberately create conflict (Bani Israel 53, A'raf 56)
33. To try create discord between man & wife (Baqara 102)
34. To rely upon those who have no faith. (Aale Imran 28)
35. To be unkind, despite acts of worship (Ma'un 1-7)
36. To run from the field of (righteous) battle, unless for tactical reasons
37. To be wasteful. (Momin 43, A'raf 31)
38. To consume unlawful food: blood, carrion, swine, & the flesh of carnivores, (Baqara 183, Ma'ida 1-3)
39. To consume that (otherwise) lawful flesh--i.e vegetarian animals (Ma'ida 1)and all seafood (Ma'ida 96)-- which has NOT had the name of God recited over it before sacrifice (Baqara 183.)
40. Incest & marriage to maternal/paternal uncles & aunts. (Nisa 22-24)
41. Torture (Buruj 4-5)
42. Persecuting believing men & women. (Buruj 10)
43. To stand and pray at the graves of the people who had no Faith, or were hypocrites. (Tauba 84)
44. To despair of the Mercy of the Lord. (Zumar 53)


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Some people may question the need for a moral code at all, to them we have nothing to say except "wait and see."
To those who may find some aspects of this moral code quaint & repugnant according to today's values, such as no.s 3 & 4, they might well reflect that through most of recorded history, the family has been the basis of all communities. Thus its sanctity is the bedrock of stability, and what violates it is the root of anarchy.
To those who object to 26-29, what are you doing at a Sufi blog anyway?!