Stealing From Pirated Site, Judgement Day And Punishment
اگر آدمی کبیرہ گناہوں سے بچتا ہے تو خدا کا ارشاد ہے کہ اس کے چھوٹے گناہ اور خطائیں معاف ہو جائیں گی۔ آیت: 4: 31 إِن تَجْتَنِبُوا كَبَائِرَ مَا تُنْهَوْنَ عَنْهُ نُكَفِّرْ عَنكُمْ سَيِّئَاتِكُمْ وَنُدْخِلْكُم مُّدْخَلًا كَرِيمًا تاہم، چھوٹے گناہوں کو ہلکا نہیں لینا چاہیے، ہلکا لینے سے وہ دل میں غفلت اور گناہوں کی برائی ختم کر دیتے ہین اور آدمی بڑے گناہوں کی طرف نکل جاتا ہے۔
@Irfan76 if someone keeps on doing a minor sin, or plans to do a minor sin without being overwhelmed. would this thing be istikbar?
I don’t think one should ever do a minor sin deliberately because doing so deliberately might actually be a major sin in some other way. I take this ayah only to get rid of my overthinking which is really just based on extremism and perfectionism and none needs to be perfect, afterall Allah’s mercy is there. So, only in that case I say, “well I have tried my best to stay away from all kinds of sins that I know of and definitely all major sins but if there are any minor sins done by me unknowingly, Allah SWT will hopefully forgive those”. And I also used to download a lot from pirated sites but I stopped doing so because it is clearly taking away others’ rights. But the ones I have already consumed, I’m looking forward to paying them money when I earn it and in case of pirating, it is less intense because they aren’t being harmed if I don’t have money to pay at all and it is not something physical taken away from them. Thus I am less worried. In a nutshell, it feels like a minor sin to download from pirate sites only when you don’t have money that you could have paid them if that content was not available on pirated site but it feels like a major sin when I have the money to pay them and I am downloading from pirating sites just to save money