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What is “Thulm?”

We generally associate the word with “oppression,” but if we look at the basis of the word, in the Arabic language we get a far deeper meaning.

Thulm means “placing a thing or an object in its wrong place.”

So if I take your laptop and start using it as a hammer, from the linguistics of Arabic, this is Thulm. Why? Because that is the improper use of that object.

So, whatever goes against the order creation, the order of its inner being, is therefore Thulm. That is why what we describe as merely “sinning” is many times described as “Thulm” in The Qur’an, hence the phrase “sinning against one’s self.”

Thus sin is not a imaginary transgression, but rather, it prevents you, the individual, from reaching your potential.