Explanation 1- Personal possession is respected while...

Explanation 1- Personal possession is respected while domination in others' properties is unlawful, except for correct bargaining which are perfected on mutual consent. "O' you who have Faith! Do not devour each other's property among yourselves in vanity, except that it be a trade by your mutual consent **…"** A definite society, or an Ummah, has one unit of soul and a common fate.

"….each other's property among yourselves…" Any kind of domination which is not based on divine truth' is forbidden. Some of its instances are; usurpation, theft, barring from inheritance, gambling, defraud, falsification, and purchasing the means of mischief and sin. It is so because all of these instances are the examples of vanity.

"...do not devour each other's property among yourselves in vanity....." Bargains should be performed on the basis of mutual consent, not compulsively or unwillingly. "...a trade by your mutual consent...." The life of a person is respectable. Therefore, suicide, and murdering others is 'unlawful'. "...and do not kill your (own) selves (one another)...." Surah An-Nisa', Verse 30 وَمَن يَفْعَلْ ذَلِكَ عُدْوَانًا وَظُلْمًا فَسَوْفَ نُصْلِيهِ نَارًا وَكَانَ ذَلِكَ عَلَى اللّهِ يَسِيرًا 30.

"And whoever does this aggressively and unjustly, We will soon cast him into fire; and this is easy for Allah." The difference between the Arabic words /'udwan/ and /zulm/, mentioned in this verse, may be that the former is a transgression against others, while the latter encompasses the aggression towards one's own self, too.

The verse says: "And whoever does this aggressively and unjustly, We will soon cast him into fire; and this is easy for Allah." Surah An-Nisa', Verse 31 إِن تَجْتَنِبُواْ كَبَآئِرَ مَا تُنْهَوْنَ عَنْهُ نُكَفِّرْ عَنكُمْ سَيِّئَاتِكُمْ وَنُدْخِلْكُم مُّدْخَلاً كَرِيمًا 31.

"If you avoid the great sins which you are forbidden, We remit from you your small sins and We cause you to enter an honourable place of entering." It is understood from this verse that sins are divided into two groups: the minor sins and the major sins. We also recite in Surah Al-Kahf, No.18, Verse 49 that, on the Day of Judgement, when sinners see the record of their evil deeds, they say: " ...What a book this is! it does not omit a small one nor a great one.... ".

According to the Islamic literature, a great sin is a sin for which Allah has promised Fire to its performer. The numbers of great sins are mentioned differently in the Islamic narrations.

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