The Prophet ﷺ named seven sins and called them destructive — a warning specific enough to memorize and serious enough to act on. This booklet works through them.
What Is Covered
The scriptural evidence from the Qur'an and Sunnah defining each: associating partners with Allah (shirk), sorcery, unlawful killing, consuming riba, devouring the wealth of an orphan, fleeing from the battlefield, and the false accusation of chaste, believing women.
For each one: an explanation of its gravity, its consequences in this world and the Hereafter, and practical steps for avoiding it.
Not an Academic Subject
The booklet's framing is worth noting. Major sins are not a matter of scholarly classification. They are practical concerns affecting a person's standing with Allah, his life in the community, and how long his faith lasts.
Several of them are also easier to fall into now than they have ever been. Riba is embedded in the ordinary financial system. Devouring an orphan's wealth is a live question wherever inheritance is being settled. Slander travels further and faster than it did. These are not historical categories.
What Else Is in It
Reminders, du'as, and reflective questions to help a person examine his own life and take corrective action — which is what turns a list of warnings into something usable.
Why Pocket Size
Because the point is to be reminded, and a reminder on a shelf is not a reminder. It carries in a pocket, a handbag or a travel bag, and it is short enough to reread in ten minutes.
Who It Is For
New Muslims. Students. Anyone examining his own conduct honestly. Youth groups and halaqahs, where each sin makes a session. Cheap enough to buy in quantity for distribution.
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