Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Lying While Fasting (Hadith Commentary from Zad alTalibin)
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The speaker discusses the concept of falsehood and how it is evil and has negative consequences. They explain that falsehood is something that cannot be achieved and that individuals cannot lie about their actions. The speaker also discusses the concept of falsehood and how it is related to fasting, deceptive behavior, and diseases.
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Hadith number 219 Mala Mia Dara cola zoo, when MLB Felisa de la
hija twin fee and parama, who wish Allah who
this is, it's not necessarily speaking about Ramadan, but it is
speaking about
something very important, which is to show the difference between
acts of piety and acts of wrongs that a person does. How does that
equate together? Because what you've got is, the scenario would
be that you've got a person who is mashallah trying to do some good,
just trying to fast every Monday and Thursday, for example, or
fasting even every second day. At the same time, there is an evil
that they are involved in, for example, in this particular
narration, it talks about false utterances.
Right, and acting on falsehood. So basically leading a life of lie,
whether it means just petty lying, or lying from someone else, lying
to sell your goods, telling them that the quality is such and such
rights, without defect, defect free, and so on all of these
things, whatever it is, falsehood is such an evil falsehood. It's
such a such an evil, that even out of religion, it's something that
is considered to be evil, just intrinsically speaking. Because
imagine living in a world where it was all about falsehood, you could
never trust anybody, because falsehood will be accepted, and
you will not trust anybody, everything would just be a toss
up, you just wonder if something is right, you'd have to make
contingency plans for everything. Right? So it's not a very
predictable world to live in. It's just so
evil that the prophets of Allah is gonna be saying here, whoever does
not abandon false utterances and practicing upon it while fasting.
Allah cares, not then that the person abandons his food and
drink.
Equating one of the worst sins, which according to
what Hadith, Muslims cannot lie. They could do everything else in
common Zina, meaning a person could fall into all of these other
diseases. But one thing that you cannot do, because
of the Eman that we have under submission to Allah subhanho wa
taala. Now believe in the unseen, lying is just something that a
Muslim cannot do. Meaning a true believer cannot lie. You can have
a believer who could fall into other sins, and then you know,
make Toba and come back. But lying is something that is just totally
out of it. And the reason for that is our belief in Allah subhanho wa
Taala is the belief in the unseen is the belief that in the unseen,
that we can't see him, but he sees everything that we do. And
the benefit here is, or the point here to make is that our belief in
Allah subhanaw taala is such to such a level, that
lying goes against our very nature of our belief. Because we believe
that Allah subhanaw taala is watching us all the time. And he
knows the truth of everything. And we're not supposed to lie, it's
just such a big, big problem in our religion. So it is very, very
wrong to lie. On the other hand, you've got to do a good deed which
is considered a very virtuous deed that Allah subhanaw taala says, in
a hadith could see as related from Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam that fasting is for me, and I give directly a reward for it
directly. And the reward that Allah subhanaw taala gives for the
sake of fasting or fasting is immense. It's innumerable, Allah
subhanaw taala just gives great reward. So you've got a very
virtuous deed, very historical, very virtuous deed that is very
beloved by Allah subhanaw taala. And you're being shown that even
if somebody is committing is practicing that good deed, but
what is going to happen is this bad deed, it's so bad, that it
will cancel out this Allah subhanaw taala won't care for such
a person, whereas he really does care for people who, who fast. So
false utterances refer to all kinds of verbal sins. And they
include giving false evidence, cursing, because when you curse
someone,
it's normally a lie, call somebody, a dog, call somebody a
pig, it's a lie, call somebody a, you know, whatever other whatever
other there is, it's normally based on a lie, because what
you're doing is you're exaggerating something evil about
that person.
Right, another one is engulfing ofce. These means almost like just
pure white light offs that you give that you make, slandering,
backbiting, reviling false practices, and all of this refers
to deceptive, immoral and sinful practices.
The reason for it is very clear. Fasting is not about it's not
about depriving yourself of nourishment.
Not just ingesting anything. It's actually more than that. So the
person absolutely has no idea why they're fasting. They've got a
distorted understanding of why they fast and that's why Allah
subhanaw taala doesn't care for this fast because they're not
fulfilling one of the biggest criteria fasting is a shield
against these diseases against these problems against these
evils. hadith is related by man Buhari