Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Lying While Fasting (Hadith Commentary from Zad alTalibin)

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