2. We were told by Ahmad bin Hasan al-Qattan, that he said: We were told by Ahmad bin Yahya bin Zakariya al-Qattan, that he said: We were told by Bikr bin Abdullah bin Habib, that he said: We were told by Tamim bin Buhlul, from his father, from Abdullah ibn Fudail, from his father, that he said: I heard Abu Khalid al-Kabuli say: I heard the Graceful of Worshippers, Ali bin Hussain, peace be upon them both, say: The sins that change graces are transgression against people, discontinuing the habits of goodness and making righteous acts, disbelief in graces and abandoning thankfulness. Allah, Exalted and Glorious is He, said: «Indeed, Allah does not change what is in a people until they change what is in themselves.» (13:11) The sins that cause regret is killing the soul that Allah has declares sacred. Allah, Exalted is He, said: «And do not kill the soul whom Allah has declared sacred» (6:151). He, Exalted and Glorious is He, said with regards to the story of Qabeel when he killed his brother, Habeel, and was unable to bury him: «Then his soul enticed him to kill his brother, so he killed, and he became among those who regret.» (5:30) [1] Also, (among those sins are) abandoning connection with kinship until they become rich, abandoning prayer until its (preferred) time is out, abandoning the giving of testament and the return of rights (to their owners) and (among those thins are) the prevention of alms tax until death arrives and the tongue is locked. The sins that cause wraths to descend are (acts of) disobedience by the one who knows (that they are forbidden) by transgressing, offending people, mocking them and ridiculing them. The sins that repel shares is to appear (by pretending) to have poverty, sleeping during complete darkness and the prayer of the early morning, belittling graces and complaining against the Worshipped, Exalted and Glorious is He. The sins that violate protections are drinking wine, playing with bets, dealing with what makes people laugh, such as with non-sense and joking, mentioning the blemishes of people and sitting with people of dubiousness. The sins that cause tribulation to descend are abandoning the giving of refuge to the worried, abandoning the giving of assistance to the oppressed and wasting (the execution of the duty of) the enjoining of good and the forbidding of evil. The sins that give power to enemies are public (performance of) oppression, announcing obscenity, allowing the forbidden, disobedience to the good and giving in to the evil. The sins that cause the haste of termination are disconnecting from kinship, false rightly-handed promises, untrue sayings, fornication, interrupting the roads of the Muslims, proclaiming leadership without right and denial of the promise of Allah, Exalted and Glorious is He. The sins that darken the atmosphere are magic, shamanism, belief in stars, denial of destiny and disobedience to parents. The sins that uncover the veil are taking debt without the intention of fulfilling it (by paying it back), thriftlessness by spending on falsehood, stinginess towards one’s family, children and kinship, bad mannerisms, little patience, appealing to worry, laziness and belitting the people of religion. The sins that repel prayer are having evil intention, having wicked inner self, hypocrisy with one’s brothers, abandoning the giving of conceding response, delaying the obligatory prayers until their (preferred) times pass, abandoning the seeking of nearness to Allah, Exalted and Glorious is He, with righteousness and charity and the usage of vulgarity and foul talk in speech. The sins that restrain the rain from the sky are tyranny of the rulers in judging, false testimonies, concealment of testimonies, prevention of the (giving of) alms tax and support, harshness of the heart towards the people of poverty and destitution, oppression of orphans and widows and rebuffing the asker (for help) and rejecting him at night.