Greater Sins
Title

Dedication

Translator’s Preface

A Short Biography of Ayatullah Dastaghaib Shirazi

Chapter 1
Taqwa


Chapter 2
Greater Sins and Smaller Sins

Chapter 3
First Greater Sin: Shirk (Polytheism)

Chapter 4
Second Greater Sin: Yās (Deaspair)

Chapter 5
Third Greater Sin:Qunut (Despondence)

Chapter 6
Fourth Greater Sin: Al Amno Min Makrillah (Disregard of Allah (S.w.T.)’s punishment)

Chapter 7
Fifth Greater Sin: Murder

Chapter 8
Sixth Greater Sin : Āq al-Walidayn (Disobedience to parents)

Chapter 9
Seventh Greater Sin: Qat’a ar-Rahm

Chapter 10
Eighth Greater Sin: Usurping the Property of the Orphans

Chapter 11
Ninth Greater Sin: Usury

Chapter 12
Tenth Greater Sin: Fornication

Chapter 13
Eleventh Greater sin: Sodomy

Chapter 14
Twelfth Greater Sin: Qažaf

Chapter 15
Thirteenth Greater Sin: Drinking Liquor

Chapter 16
Fourteenth Greater Sin: Gambling

Chapter 17
Fifteenth Greater Sin: Music

Chapter 18
The Sixteenth Greater Sin : Singing

Chapter 19
The Seventeenth Greater Sin: Lying

Chapter 20
Eighteenth Greater Sin: False Oath

Chapter 21
The Nineteenth Greater Sin: False Testimony

Chapter 22
The Twentieth Greater Sin: Concealing Evidence

Chapter 23
The Twenty-First Greater Sin: Non fulfilment of a Promise

Chapter 24
The Twenty-Second Greater Sin:Khayanat

Chapter 25
The Twenty-Third Greater Sin: Stealing

Chapter 26
The Twenty-Fourth Greater Sin: Short-Wheghing and Cheating (in Business)

Chapter 27
The Twenty-Fifth Greater Sin: Consumption of Harām

Chapter 28
The Twenty-Sixth Greater Sin: Usurping the Rights of Others or Non-Fullfillment of Rights

Chapter 29
The Twenty-Seventh Greater Sin: Avoiding Jihad

Chapter 30
The Twenty-Eighth Greater Sin: Becoming A’Arāb after Hijrat

Chapter 31
The Twenty-Ninth Greater Sin: Helping the Oppressors

Chapter 32
The Thirtieth Greater Sin: Not Helping the Oppressed

Chapter 33
The Thirty-First Greater Sin: Sorcery

Chapter 34
The Thirty-Second Greater Sin: Isrāf

Chapter 35
Thirty-third Greater Sin: Pride or Arrogance

Chapter 36
Thirty-fourth Greater Sin: To War against Muslims

Chapter 37
Thirty-fifth Greater Sin: Eating of Carrion, Pork and Blood

Chapter 38
Thirty-sixth Greater Sin: Omitting Prayer Intentionally

Chapter 39
The Thirty-seventh Greater Sin: Non–Payment of Zakat

Chapter 40
The Thirty-eighth Greater Sin: Not Giving Importance to Hajj

Chapter 41
The Thirty-ninth Greater Sin: To Neglect any Obligatory Act

Chapter 42
The Fortieth Greater Sin: Persistence in Minor Sins

Chapter 43
Part Two: Greater sins regarding whom there is no clear ‘nass’

Chapter 44
The Forty-first Greater Sin: Backbiting

Chapter 45
The Forty-second Greater Sin: Tale Telling

Chapter 46
The Forty-third Greater Sin: Insulting a Believer

Chapter 47
The Forty-fourth Greater Sin: Intrigue, Deception and Breaking Covenants

Chapter 48
The Forty-fifth Greater Sin: Hoarding and Black-marketing

Chapter 49
The Forty-sixth Greater Sin: Disrespect of Qur’an

Chapter 50
The Forty-seventh Greater Sin: Disrespect of Ka’ba

Chapter 51
The Forty-eighth Greater Sin: Disrespect to Masajid

Chapter 52
The Forty-ninth Greater Sin: Disrespect of the Tombs of Ma’sūmīn (a.s.)

Chapter 53
The Fiftieth Greater Sin: Disrespect to the soil of Imam Husain’s Grave (Turbah)

Chapter 54
Tawba (Part One)

Chapter 55
Tawba (Part Two)

Chapter 56
Glossary if Islamic Terms