Timeline for What are sins and what are mistakes?
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| Nov 19, 2015 at 19:26 | comment | added | Sufyan Naeem | In the 2nd comment from last, you wrote "and so spending that money (with interest) later on would be unintentionally committing a sin". When you say it is unintentional act how can you say it a sin? Looks like it contradicts all your previous views. I hope it is a mistake. | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 1:14 | comment | added | Tash C | if however you knew your bank account was dealing with interest, and still would spend all the money without taking out the interest money first, that is intentionally committing a sin. Do you see the difference? Its all in the heart, and only Allah SWT can judge you on that. | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 1:12 | comment | added | Tash C | ok a good example is when you first make a bank account and made one with supposedly no ribaa, but after a while the bank starts putting interest into your account and you dont realise it, spending interest money. Since you thought your account was interest-free, there is noway yo would have expected the interest money to be put there, and so spending that money later on would be unintentionally committing a sin. | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 1:06 | comment | added | Tash C | i gave you an anology that you can refer to. Yes what the police see is a crime, but the police are humans and dont know your INTENTIONS which is kind of what this question evolves around, dont you think? God knows your intentions, police dont "he knows what is in every heart" (67:13). How on earth can you commit any of those unintentionally? "excuse me your honour, but i 'accidently' raped that 5 year old". Sounds pretty stupid dont you think? | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 16:50 | comment | added | user13313 | That's not really a good example, because driving too fast is not a sin, and the police doesn't care if you intentionally or unintentionally speed up. What the police sees is the crime. A sin is an act that God forbade you to do, and if you do it "unintentionally" it's still a sin. I mean, can you commit Zina, Riba, rape and murder unintentionally? When you say that you unintentionally did Zina, you're saying that you were not "realizing" that you were doing Zina, while doing it. That doesn't make any sense. How can you not realize something like that? Can you also "unintentionally" rape? | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 9:34 | comment | added | Tash C | @TruthSeeker i can provide you with an example. If you saw the speed as 80, but you were in a hurry and were going 90, you would be speeding intentionally. if however you were going 90 but didnt realise it, or you didnt know the speed limit was 80, it would be a mistake. The action is still the same but the intention different. The first would be classified under sin and the second mistake | |
| Jul 15, 2015 at 13:12 | comment | added | user13313 | And the hadith just tells us about that the intention of a deed is more important than the deed itself. But if I sin, and I know it's wrong, but I make an intention not to do the wrong, it's still a sin. Whether you have that intention or not. This hadith talks about, for example, when you donate to get known by the people, and not for God, then your action is a big zero, because your intention was bad. | |
| Jul 15, 2015 at 13:04 | comment | added | user13313 | A sin is considered an evil deed that God commanded you to NOT do. For example: Riba. A mistake is never a sin. The prophets indeed never sinned, for they were protected from sin, and sin-free. They couldn't sin, basically. But a mistake is when you do something wrong, yet it's not a sin, out of being imperfect. So if you say that a mistake is when you go against the command of God in unawareness (sinning, but in unawareness and unintentional), then you're actually saying that the prophets DID sin, but unintentionally and unaware. This isn't correct, is it? Can you please clarify this? | |
| Jul 15, 2015 at 11:58 | vote | accept | Sufyan Naeem | ||
| Jul 15, 2015 at 11:56 | history | answered | Tash C | CC BY-SA 3.0 |