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  • Helping Someone To Sin (Tawun Alal Ithm)

    Posted by Abdullah AbdulRahman on June 15, 2023 at 6:49 am

    Assalamualaikum

    When you share a music or films or things like that, usually considered sinful in Muslim societies, it is considered that you, the person sharing, will also get the sin. This thing is understandable when e.g you are sharing some music/film with explicit sinful content. But with things which can be used both sinfully and unsinfully e.g sharing your music/Netflix account with someone. Now he can watch either good or bad movies, it’s his choice. Now if he watch bad movies, would i be sinful because i have shared my account?

    Mohammad Ali Soomro replied 1 week, 4 days ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Helping Someone To Sin (Tawun Alal Ithm)

  • Umer

    Moderator June 15, 2023 at 11:54 pm

    – For something secular in nature which also belongs to the personal domain of a individual, it is the act of the individual which makes him sinful if he commits a sinful act using those secular means.

    – For something sinful in nature which also belongs to the personal domain of a individual, the person helping that individual in achieving that sinful thing will be responsible to some extent (a minor sin) for facilitating commitment of that individual sin, but here the primary responsibility still lies with individual as well. And if the same person facilitating that sinful activity happens to be under some compulsion of job or of environement (e.g. airhostess serving alcohol or an employee at a grocery store in the US or UK), then the intensity of that minor sin would reduce even more.

    – For something sinful in nature which also belongs to usurping the rights of others or to oppression, then even the facilitation can become a major sin. Quran 5:2 uses وَ تَعَاوَنُوۡا عَلَی الۡبِرِّ وَ التَّقۡوٰی ۪ وَ لَا تَعَاوَنُوۡا عَلَی الۡاِثۡمِ وَ الۡعُدۡوَانِ [and help one another in what is virtuous and pious and not in what is sinful (حق تلفی) and oppressive] in the context of violating the sanctity of haram, haraam months and of prople’s lives who came for Hajj beyond what was ordained in response to violation by the oppressors first as it would tantamount to facilitation of oppression. And if this facilitation is for some financial gain, then such facilitation becomes even more sinful.

    Following video will help explore this topic further:

    Please also refer to the video below from 9:43 to 14:06

    https://youtu.be/wdc1EFi0mko?t=583

  • Mohammad Ali Soomro

    Member November 11, 2025 at 10:59 pm

    @Irfan76 @Umer25

    Sir I wanted to know about a case. If I have a non Muslim friend. Who whenever he intends to do good to someone he does it with intention to please the person but also an intention of pleasing his gods beside Allah.

    If I be friends with him. I constantly ask for little little favors or good things from him, like we do from our friends. If I for example want him to help me in a matter of a project, but I know that he’ll help me with intention of my pleasure but also for getting pleasure of his false gods. Is it okay if I ask him for favor, while my intention is only restricted that he does it for friendship sake and my pleasure (while his intention of pleasing false gods will also be integrated along with it)?

  • Dr. Irfan Shahzad

    Scholar November 11, 2025 at 11:06 pm

    You are not responsible for his beliefs.

  • Mohammad Ali Soomro

    Member November 12, 2025 at 12:25 am

    @Irfan76 sir from which point will it be differentiated analogously from the example of dropping someone at a temple in a car?

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