These 10 commandments are based on certain principles which are elaborated earlier in the same chapter in Meezan. At the end of his description of 10 commandments, Ghamidi sahib wrote that other sins and vices are the offshoots of these commandments. Alcohol falls in the category of dietary Shariah, while these commandments belong to ethics, that is why it is not there. Riba and gambling belong to the activities which needed to be addressed separately to tell why they are haram, as to some, their hurmat was not clear, they took them as beneficial economic activities.

To be offshoots of some vices, does not mean that the offshoots are minor sins. The intensity of sin makes a sin grave. for example to tell lie is not always a big sin, but to bear a false witness is a grave sin.