TWENTY-FOUR ACTS THAT BRING POVERTY ONTO A PERSON (I)

1– To urinate standing without a darûrat to do so. (A darûrat is a situation that you cannot help and which compels you to do or not to do something.)

2– To eat food while you are (in a state called) junub, (i.e. when you need to make a ghusl.)

3– To despise crumbs of bread ant step on them.

4– To burn onion and garlic peelings.

5– To walk ahead of seniors.

6– To call one’s parents by their names.

7– To pick one’s teeth with twigs from trees or brooms.

8– To wash one’s hands with mud.

9– To sit on a threshold.

10– To make an ablution at a place where one urinates.

11– To put food in unwashed pots and pans.

12– To sew clothes as one is wearing them.

13– To eat onions when hungry.

14– To dry one’s face with one’s skirt.

15– To let spiders live in one’s house.

16– To hurry out of the mosque after performing the morning prayer (in jamâ’at).