Haifaa Younis – When do you lie and Why
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How many of you lie?
Show me hands. May Allah reward
you. Because you're honest.
I teach the youth
every Thursday night.
And we were talking about the story of
Sayidna Yusuf.
So we came to the verse when the
brothers
brought the shirt with the fake blood.
So what do you teach the youth? You're
not gonna teach them tafsir. What is the
message? Lying. So I asked them. There were
50 girls who were in that class, between
12
18. So it was basically high schoolers and
mid school. And I said, how many of
you lie?
Everybody.
Not a single hand stayed.
And these are the best of the best.
These are homeschoolers
wafaaal,
and I say why do you lie?
And I'm asking you this question.
Why do you lie?
You all raised your hand.
Yes.
Scared. I can hear you.
Scared. Scared. You're scared. That's exactly what the
youth said.
And I said, scared of what?
Yes. And for them, they said, punishment.
Listen to me. I looked at them and
I said, I grew up in a house.
Do anything but don't lie.
It was a no, no, no.
It doesn't be fit you. This is how
we grew up.
So I told them,
I have never lied in my life.
Literally,
you should see these girls.
Literally. And there was one of them. 12
looks like 6.
She looked at me and says, never.
Yeah. She was sitting in the and I
said, Mariam,
never.
Really?
This is how she and I said, why
do I wanna,
lie?
Yani, I'm gonna get punished. You know what?
If I get punished for something I did,
that means I deserve it. And I say,
why did you why do you lie?
I took a lollipop from my mother's
purse.
She came back and says, who took where
is this lollipop from?
Says from my friend.
Lying is a major sin.
Why I'm saying this? Because Allah
says,
Allah loves those who are truthful.
The opposite is true.
He does not like
imagine I have something
Talmud doesn't love. How he's gonna love me?
You want to be close to Allah?
Lai
Uhib. Lai Uhib. Why do you lie?
Scared of what?
If I
my focus is on Allah
from a to z.
I'm scared for you from human being and
not scared from him.
True or false?
I'm scared from the punishment of a human
being or the saying of a human being,
or the look of a human being,
but I'm not scared from him on the
day of judgment.
When I'm standing in front of him, and
he's gonna look at me and says, you
didn't say the truth.
Why?
You were you were afraid of
a and b or x and y and
z, and you were not afraid from me.
I I'm all hearing, all seeing.
You want pure heart?
Ask Allah
to clean your heart because you can't do
it alone. I can't do it alone
unless he helps me.
And I always say this to Allah. I
say, you Rabbi, I can't.
Waqulika insanubu'aif,
a human being is weak. What can I
do? But you can make it.
Literally, I say strip my heart, strip my
heart
from arrogance. Everybody is better than me.
I love the saying of Sayid Nama,
when the woman stood up and says, you're
wrong.
And she quoted the verse from the Quran.
She was right.
And he said, sadaqaatil
mara,
akhba'a'a umar wa sabatil mara. The mara the
woman is right, and Umar is wrong.
Everybody is more knowledgeable than you,
Umar. Everybody is more knowledgeable than you, Umar.
Omar, learn
to be honest with yourself.
One second,
don't justify the disobedience of Allah.
Don't.
Say exactly what you showed me today. That's
why I told you it's a very good
news.
Say I'm weak.
Say I lie. Say I'm jealous.
I have jealousy in me.
Acknowledge it
and turn to Allah and says, you Allah,
cure me.
You Allah, cure me. You Allah, remove
is what I do for myself.
Remove
everything
from my surroundings and my life that will
make your disobedience
easier.
Did you get it?
Because you have to acknowledge,
identify
the diseases you have.
And once you start working on claiming
and I said his name,
every time you remove 1,
you don't know what he does, and he
will throw another thing in it,
a good thing in it.