Reprehensible acts

REPREHENSIBLE ACTS

Among the reprehensible acts which the Shariah forbids are:

-To scare or frighten a person even jocularly.

-To point a sharp instrument at a person even jocularly.

-To stare threateningly at a person for no valid reason, even playfully.

-To speak derisively of the sins of a person.

- To remove chicks from the nest of a bird.

-To cane pupils.

- After meals to leave the food unattended.

-To refer to a person with a nickname which he dislikes.

-To send a marriage proposal for a girl when another prior proposal is still being considered by the girl's party.

-To arrange one's own marriage without the blessing of one's elders whether one happens to be a male or female.

-To choose a marriage partner only on the grounds of wealth, beauty or worldly rank.

-To eat with knives and forks.

-To remove hair and cut nails during the state of haidh or janaabat.

-To punish anyone (pupils, children, etc.) during anger.

-To be oblivious of the needs of poor neighbours.

-To participate in the funeral and burial services of non- Muslims even if they happen to be one's parents.

-To look into the face of parents or elders when they rebuke or scold, even if they do so unjustly.

-To fulfil the un-Islamic wishes and demands of parents.

- To conceal defects in a product when selling it.

- To unnecessarily delay payment of debt.
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To press poor debtors for payment.

-To mislead a person by providing untrue references about prospective clients, buyers or those who propose for marriage.