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Sins come in all sizes and types.
Sins have many different names in the Quran,
even though in English it's just simply translated as sin.
So I wanted to share some of the different words
that Allah has used to describe sins,
and to give you a more deeper translation of it,
so you can understand that there are so many
different types and categories, and also be warned
that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
has differentiated and made separate levels,
because not all sins are the same,
and they're not all of the same type and quality.
The first word that we're going to study of course
is zalla,
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la says to us in the Quran,
that human beings, they can have a slipup.
Zalla means like you slipped.
And that word usually is used when a person
didn't intend it, it wasn't thought about before doing it.
So as they were talking, zallatil lissan
their tongue said something, it was a slip of the tongue.
They didn't really mean to say that.
And that is a mistake, but it doesn't have the same
category and have the same level as one who has
amdan, someone who was intentional
and thought about what they wanted to say to hurt another.
Another word is junah,
junah means a transgression
that goes to a particular extent,
to a particular place.
Allah warns us not to have the type of behavior and mindset
where we're willing to go all the way to the margins,
all the way to the end, all the way to the furthest place
where other people don't go.
Allah warns us to be from those who enter
and have this type of behavior in our lifestyle.
One of the words of course that is very famous
is kabira, a major sin.
In fact, you can probably better translate it
as an enormity, it's something that's so massive
in its harm, it's something that is usually
a public sin that involved other people,
and was something that maybe known publicly
or done privately but becomes public knowledge,
and a kabira is something
that you and I want to stay away from.
There are numerous Hadith of the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam where he says,
ijtanibu sabb al muubiqaah, be careful never to go near
the seven enormous major sins.
We'll study those as we proceed in our discussion
inshaAllah
Another word is hawban.
Where a person is negligent of their family
and their obligations.
Where a person doesn't look after their spouse,
doesn't look after their children,
doesn't look after their brother, and their sister,
they're not careful with their mother in law,
sister in law, they don't look after their cousins
in the way they should, and that is a very sensitive word
that Allah uses in the Quran.
Another word that Allah uses is lammam.
Which means to compile, and it could be small, little things
that you do, but you put them all together,
they become a massive mountain of error.
Abdullah ibn Mas'ud radiAllahu Anhu said, you guys
think, he says about the people who lived with him,
some of you think that the small mistakes that you do
individually are not a big thing,
but at the time of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
we used to see each of those the size of a mountain.
And then he warned us by, he was saying, that those small
mistakes, ahaatat bihi khati atu,
that they can become like a wall that surrounds you.
Like they're little bricks, small lies,
small, small, small, small, it actually builds a wall
of sinfulness before Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.
Be careful of compiling small mistakes
and thinking it's just something small,
it's not a bad thing, it's just a small thing
every so often, because they come together
to make a massive mountain,
may Allah protect all of us Allahumma ameen.
Another word that Allah uses in the Quran
is ithm, which means that a person
has delayed or neglected doing good.
It's not that they did wrong,
but Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la allowed them
an opportunity to do good.
They're there to be able to do something righteous,
but they step back from it, they didn't fulfill
the good that they should have, and they neglected
that opportunity, and that's something that is
an ithm, may Allah
Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la protect us.
Another word is wizr,
wala taziru waziratun wizra okhra
no one will bear the weight of a mistake
that they have made other than themselves.
So I'm only gonna come before Allah with my own mistakes,
my wife won't carry mine, my children won't carry mine,
you're not gonna carry your parents' mistakes,
but you will have wizr
and that wizr it will weigh heavy,
and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam told us
on the day of judgment that people will come carrying
their mistakes on their shoulders.
Somebody stole a car, it'll be carried upon them,
it'll be a weight, that breaks their back
on the day of judgment.
Another word that Allah uses,
and you might hear this, is thamb.
thamb means a humiliating consequence
of an action that we've done.
You did something that's gonna bring you humiliation.
People are gonna say, how dare you do that,
why would you use those words?
How dare you raise your voice in that way.
How could you use that vulgar offensive language.
How dare you look at these
haram things.
It's something that you made a mistake
that brings about an evil consequence, a bad consequence,
behind the action that you have performed.
Another word of course is khata'.
latu-akhithna in naseena aw akhta'na
khata' is a mistake.
Something you didn't intend to do,
but you ended up doing it.
You didn't plan on doing it, and you made a mistake,
and it's one of the things that is still counted
against you so you ask Allah to protect us from mistakes,
because in life even as a young person I want you to know
that mistakes have consequences.
You can't just say, hey, I made a mistake and move along
in life, you need to,
if you've made the mistake, learn not to repeat it,
and be apologetic, and acknowledging
of its effect on other.
Another word that Allah uses in the Quran
is suh,
or sayi'at.
suh is to do something that is evil,
to do something that is known by others as wrong,
it's a boundary that should not be crossed.
So when you make a sayi'ah,
it's a disgraceful action because you know before doing it
it's something identifiable to all in society
that that's something that should not be done by a Muslim.
Another word is maasiya.
Or asiyaan.
You know, maasiya is where you choose
to oppose a command of Allah.
You know what Allah has asked, you know what Allah
has ordered, what the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
taught, and you become aasi,
you oppose it in your action.
You do other than it in your words,
and you take a step away from Allah,
and the tradition of his Prophet,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Another word that Allah uses in the Quran
is faahisha, which means
a public display of error.
A public display of haram.
That you don't care if people see you do what's wrong,
and you say, here I am world, I'm gonna show you
that I have opposed Allah,
I'm gonna go against what the Prophet taught,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, so you become
faahish, and it can be with words,
with actions, or with your written material.
May Allah protect us from having faahisha
in our life, Allahumma ameen.
Another word that Allah uses is dhulm.
And Allah uses the word dhulm dhalamu
an fusahum, wrong themselves.
Wronging yourself means that you've done something
that's gonna bring you harm even though you did it
willingly, and you didn't pay attention to the fact
that you're actually going to hurt yourself.
Dhulm usually is referred to
as oppression when you wrong somebody else,
that's the second part of it, but if you imagine,
Allah says, dhalamu anfusahum,
nobody really goes about, wakes up in the morning says,
I wanna hurt myself today, but when you make
the wrong choice, knowing you're making the wrong choice,
you're hurting yourself, and people will say,
why are you doing this?
Why are you doing this to yourself?
Why are you doing this to us?
Don't you know you should stop this?
Dhul dhalamu am fusahum, may Allah protect us
from wronging ourselves by following a path
other than the path of the Prophet Muhammad,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
The other dhulm is oppressing,
oppression of others.
Wronging others, asking others what they can't have
and can't do, and can't fulfill,
and the word dhulm is the opposite
of wisdom, it is to put things in their wrong place,
to ask people for the wrong thing,
and to do the wrong thing at the wrong time,
with the wrong people.
May Allah protect you and I from this
Allahumma ameen.
Finally, and there's many other words,
there is munkar,
which means something that is immediately recognizable
as haram.
Munkar is one of the things
that you and I want to stay far away from,
it's an evil act that is known by its definition.
May Allah protect us from the munkar
that this in our hidden life and privacy,
and the munkar that other people
may see of us.
May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la allow us to be far
and distant from all of those type of sins,
Allahumma ameen.