Criterias To Apply Sadd-E-Zariya Principle
@UmerQureshi brother as you said “But if an individual is convinced regarding applicability of that Sadd-e-Zariya advice” my question is about what are the premises through which this applicability is judged? is it about frequency? as an example, in friendship nowadays. within years of friendship duration, there are occasional incidences of lying, back biting and other sins. with good vigilance, a person can reduce the frequency of these sins to an extent that it might happen very less often (for suppose -+5 times in a year). but eradicating it completely to an extent of non occurrence at all during years of friendship is not generally achievable (speaking about general public, not rare cases). but still we don’t limit friendship because those sins are not intrinsically tied to friendship, but are occasional, spontaneous, random occurrences based on many other factors as well and not friendship alone (but the friendship starting opens the gate for those later occasional sins. Had the friendship not happened, those sins later with this friend would also not occur). until a friend is very morally corrupt and we know that his friendship will intrinsically suck us into sins again and again and influence us constantly to sin actively Or is it about that if something has an intrinsic relation with sin or not. if not then it is not avoided on grounds of sadde zariya. and if it has intrinsic relation with sin where it will actively influence someone to that sin and push them there, and these are the types of things that are avoided on basis of sadde zariya? what are the things that are to be avoided? what thing have to be considered before avoiding something under sadd e zariya?
Minor sins are minor. One needs not to stop doing anything for minor things.