Sinning depletes your soul. Avoid it!

Sinning depletes your soul. Avoid it!

Abstaining from sins is crucial for all of God's creation. It is a recipe
for success. It is the only thing that allows us to live a peaceful and
happy life. To live as God intended us to live. Therefore, if you want
happiness, life a sin-free life.
Sinning depletes our souls and it leaves us with nothing. It causes
enormous pain and suffering. Extreme loneliness, guilt and emotional
pain. It secludes us from the society. It misguides us, and misdirects
our path. Most importantly, it lowers our chances of paradise unless
God forgives us.
I have never known someone who excessively sinned, but He did not
regret it later on his life. Be it in this world or the hereafter. Those who
do not regret a sin, they are misinformed and ignorant. They lack the
necessary peace and understanding of what true life is. Therefore, any
sane and righteous person, someone of knowledge and
understanding, someone who strives for the hereafter, they cannot
view their sins as attributes of success, rather obstacles to the higher
purpose. They in their understanding are in a state of regret and
repenting to the all merciful.
So, what are some of the sins that are forbidden and that leave
permanent scars in our souls. Not only do we get punished by the
justice system in this world, but it will have negative consequences in
the hereafter, the most important aspect of our life.
Below are five major sins that we should absolutely avoid if we hope
to life in paradise eternally. This is my personal list, and therefore has
no authority in the importance of ranking. It is however based on my
personal judgement.
1. Associating partners with God. This is the worst of all sins. By
doing such a thing, we are not worshiping and praising our creator for
his majesty, but we are attributing false things to the one who creates
everything. And Allah says: "Every sin is forgiven but that of Shirk
(associating partners with God). And no man should die in such a
state unless they wish to see light.
2. Committing murder. This is rather self explanatory. All of God's
creation is sacred. No person, regardless of their nationality, race,
political association, intelligence, and wisdom should be murdered.
God is the creator of all life, and it is only Him who should take life
away. He has created each soul with a purpose, and has destined for
it a life span. A life that is purposeful, and that will be a catalyst and a
means to change someones life.
3. Committing adultery or fornication. In today's society, the number
of partners we have slept with give us a status of success, however, in
the hereafter it will serve to punish us, by giving us a status of an
immoral soul. Sex was created and deemed appropriate by God
between husband and wife to enjoy the company of each other, and to
reproduce as He intended. Changing of partners, not only is it
forbidden, but it is harmful to our health, as there are many sexual
transmitted diseases. Don't let the society dictate your life, because
purity in God's eyes is more noble than all of His creations praise of
you.
4. Breaking trusts: Allah says in the glorious Qur'an: "O you who
believe! Be not unfaithful to Allah and the Messenger, nor be unfaithful
to your trusts while you know." (08:27).
Upholding trust is a virtue. Therefore, Allah defined believers as ones
who uphold their trusts and covenants, including the public and
private trusts, as well as the covenants they undertake in all the issues
related to their public and private lives. Allah wants the people, each
and every one of them, to observe their trusts and not to betray Allah
and His Messenger or His creation.
Moreover, Imam Al-Baqir (a.s.) explains the Ayah [above] by saying
that betraying Allah and the Messenger is to disobey them. As for
misappropriating that which is entrusted to you, it is because every
human being is entrusted with what Allah has imposed on him.
Allah wants people to live the deep sense of trust. He wants people to
have regard for one another according to conduct and not outer
appearance, for the Prophet says: "Do not look at how much they fast
or pray, but look instead at their truthfulness and trustworthiness;"
these two traits are what signifies how much one is committed to the
Islamic message.
It is narrated that Imam Al-Baqir (a.s.) once said: "There are three
things which Allah, the Mighty and the Glorious, has not permitted
anyone to forsake: returning a trust to its owner, irrespective of
whether he is a good person or an evil one; fulfilling one’s promises
and covenants, irrespective of whether it has been made to a good
person or an evil one; being good and kind towards one’s parents,
irrespective of whether they are good or evil." It was also narrated that
the Messenger of Allah (p.) says: "Whoever betrays a trust in this
world and does not return it to its owners, he would die not embracing
my religion and he will be met with Allah’s anger."
5. Theft. When you take something unlawfully, you are taking the
sweat of someone who has worked hard for it. And how would you
like for someone to take your possessions from you, the ones you
have worked hard and have dedicated a lot of time for?
The Prophet Muhammad SAW cursed the thief because he is a corrupt
element in society, and if he is left unpunished, his corruption will
spread and infect the body of the Ummah (Muslim community).
So, if you avoid the major sins, surely, you are going in the right path.
Remember what Allah said in the glorious Qur'an: If you avoid the
major (part) of what you have been forbidden (to do), We will cancel
out for you your (other) evil deeds and will admit you (to Paradise)
with a noble entry. (al-Nisa 4:31)
And remember Allah forgives all sins: It was narrated from Abu
Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah
(peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Allah has one
hundred degrees of mercy, of which He sent down one among the
jinn, mankind, the animals and the vermin, by virtue of which they
show compassion and mercy to one another, and the wild animal
shows compassion to its young. But Allah has kept behind ninety-nine
degrees of mercy by virtue of which He will have mercy on His slaves
on the Day of Resurrection.” Narrated by Muslim, 2752.
Allah Most High says: Surely, Allah does not forgive associating
anything with Him, and He forgives whatever is other than that to
whomever He wills. (al-Nisa 4:48 and 116)
Below is a full list of sins that we should avoid by all means:
01. Associating anything with Allah
02. Murder
03. Practising magic
04. Not Praying
05. Not paying Zakat
06. Not fasting on a Day of Ramadan without excuse
07. Not performing Hajj, while being able to do so
08. Disrespect to parents
09. Abandoning relatives
10. Fornication and Adultery
11. Homosexuality(sodomy)
12. Interest(Riba)
13. Wrongfully consuming the property of an orphan
14. Lying about Allah and His Messenger
15. Running away from the battlefield
16. A leader's deceiving his people and being unjust to them
17. Pride and arrogance
18. Bearing false witness
19. Drinking Khamr (wine)
20. Gambling
21. Slandering chaste women
22. Stealing from the spoils of war
23. Stealing
24. Highway Robbery
25. Taking false oath
26. Oppression
27. Illegal gain
28. Consuming wealth acquired unlawfully
29. Committing suicide
30. Frequent lying
31. Judging unjustly
32. Giving and Accepting bribes
33. Woman's imitating man and man's imitating woman
34. Being cuckold
35. Marrying a divorced woman in order to make her lawful for the
husband
36. Not protecting oneself from urine
37. Showing-off
38. Learning knowledge of the religion for the sake of this world and
concealing that knowledge
39. Betrayal of trust
40. Recounting favours
41. Denying Allah's Decree
42. Listening (to) people's private conversations
43. Carrying tales
44. Cursing
45. Breaking contracts
46. Believing in fortune-tellers and astrologers
47. A woman's bad conduct towards her husband
48. Making statues and pictures
49. Lamenting, wailing, tearing the clothing, and doing other things of
this sort when an affliction befalls
50. Treating others unjustly
51. Overbearing conduct toward the wife, the servant, the weak, and
animals
52. Offending one's neighbour
53. Offending and abusing Muslims
54. Offending people and having an arrogant attitude toward them
55. Trailing one's garment in pride
56. Men's wearing silk and gold
57. A slave's running away from his master
58. Slaughtering an animal which has been dedicated to anyone other
than Allah
59. To knowingly ascribe one's paternity to a father other than one's
own
60. Arguing and disputing violently
61. Withholding excess water
62. Giving short weight or measure
63. Feeling secure from Allah's Plan
64. Offending Allah's righteous friends
65. Not praying in congregation but praying alone without an excuse
66. Persistently missing Friday Prayers without any excuse
67. Unsurping the rights of the heir through bequests
68. Deceiving and plotting evil
69. Spying for the enemy of the Muslims
70. Cursing or insulting any of the Companions of Allah's Messenger
May Allah give us the knowledge, patience, wisdom and means to live
a sinless life. One that is prosperous, and that will lead us to paradise;
Ameen!