Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyad Al-Salihin – Lying In God’s Name Is the Path to Hell
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Abu Asmaa, dini wabad, Babu tak Lady tahriman, Yamin al kadhiba
andan
So chapter regarding the severity of the prohibition of Taking a
false oath on purpose.
And Abdullah man halafa,
ala Malim, Muslimah, a
Lim,
a Alim
Sayyidina, Abdullah bin maudra, the Allah, and who narrates
that the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam, said, Whoever
swears an oath
on the property of another believer
that he has no right to such a person will meet Allah
in such a state that Allah is angry with him. And then the
Messenger of Allah, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, read for us the
verse that verifies this reality from the book of Allah, mighty and
majestic, is he that Allah Taala said,
Indeed, those who purchase in place of The covenant of Allah,
and in the place of their oaths a cheap price, and he recited to the
end of the ayah. And it's both in buchare and Muslim, the end of the
ayah being those are the ones that have no share, or there is no
share for them allotted to them in the Hereafter. And Allah will not
speak to them, and who will not look at them on the Day of
Judgment, and he will not purify them, and they will have a painful
torment. And what's the point of Allah to Allah not speaking to
them? Meaning what they're going to plead on their own behalf, and
Allah is not going to engage them. The pleas will not be engaged, and
Allah will not look at them, meaning he's not going to pay
attention to what their needs are on that day, or what their wants
are on that day when they cry out to him, Allah on that day, if he's
angry with a person, it's not just something that you have to write
it out for 24 hours. It means Allah will be angry with them
forever.
Munafi didn't go to darts too. You know that?
Did you know that
monofilin also could go to darts? Don't sit in darts like a manakin.
The enormity of swearing a false oath
by Allah's name is, it's something that's described by the Messenger
of Allah, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, as being similar to kufr.
A person who has faith is not going to be shameless enough to do
something like that when Abu uma talaba al Hari and na Rasulullah,
Muslim Abu uma
yas
Lim
Abu maabi al Hari al harasham,
who narrated the Messenger of Allah, sallAllahu, alaihi wasallam
said, Whoever
breaks off the right of another Muslim
by their oath. So somebody has something, so I swear that's mine,
or I swear I paid or I swear, you know, I gave it, or I swear that
he he damaged it, or was damaged when, you know, when I got it, or
something like that. Any anything that a person swears that takes
away the right of another believer, Allah will make
incumbent on that person. The.
Fire
and Allah haram, for that person, Jannah. And a man said, in the
presence of the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, upon
hearing this, he said, is even if it's something small, and the
messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam replied, even if
it's like a small like twig branch of the Arak tree. What is the Arak
tree? That rock tree is the the tree that they usually cut the
miswak from
is miswak expensive. Somehow or another, they found a way to,
like, pump it up with, like, salt and Minty, fruity flavors, and put
it into, like, a plastic, you know, container and all this other
stuff, and like, mark it up to like, $1
otherwise, a miss walk is extremely cheap. You're not going
to go into like, a miss walk dealership where a guy with a suit
and tie is going to be like, welcome to the world of luxurious
Miss walks, where you're taken to a showroom and they have, like,
high pressure sales coming because you can't it's not even sold in a
shop. If they have it in a shop, the shop sells something else. The
Miss walk is there on the side, because you can't even mark up
Miss walk enough in order to pay rent on the shop. Generally, the
Miss walk is sold where by some dude on the street side, sitting
on the floor with a piece of cloth or a plastic mat laid out in front
of him, has a bunch of Miss walks, and he's just sitting there
cutting it with like a knife. And no matter how expensive his walk
is, it's not going to make him all that much money. It's not like
you, you're not going to become you're not going to, like, earn a
living by selling this walk. You're just usually like, some old
dude who just, like has very little expense, and like is just
trying to get something to eat. And it's not just in our time in
the Prophet sallallahu, someone's time, it was like that as well.
And so he's saying what he goes even if you cheated a person out
of the the stick that the swakis cut from, because even then you're
going to go to help. Now, this is a very, a very stern warning,
and it's something that kind of surprised some, some of the
companions. That's why the person who asked a question, asked a
question, which is, like, you go to jahannam for like, being kafir,
like, why is a person going to jahannam for stealing another
person's like, property. And
one is the enormity of using the name of Allah when it's not
supposed to be used.
Another is that making Allah happy is very easy. Making other people
happy is very difficult.
You'll do everything in order to make your family happy. They're
not going to be happy.
You'll do everything to make your parents happy. They're still going
to yell at you. You're going to do everything to make your kids
happy. They're still going to roll their eyes and flip their hands at
you. You're going to do everything to make people under about Tapia
would do this, that and the other thing, somebody's going to be
upset. So I got unmasked. Never going to practice Islam again.
Your fault because you, I don't know, didn't get the vegan cookies
instead you got the cookies with like milk. And I don't know,
whatever it is, instead of soy, chocolate or whatever. I don't
know,
someone's always going to be pissed off about something. And so
the one of the one of the other problems, on top of the fact that
you abused the sacred name of allah that's not supposed to be
abused, is that now you took something from somebody. Now that
Miss walk Seller is a jerk.
You know, people been stealing this walk from that guy his entire
life. And this is the SWaCH that broke the camel's back. He's not
going to forgive you for it. What are you going to do? You're really
good. It's not fair. No, what's not fair is he stole Miss lock
from the guy. If you're not interested in dealing with the
consequences, don't do the thing in the first place. And so the man
asked out of
taju.
Out of just being like
overwhelmed with like disbelief that that even if it's something
small that you stole from from another person,
and the Messenger of Allah Salah said it, even if it's like a
switch from the Iraq tree,
it's such a, such a
small and paltry thing. The
Arafat used to all just be barren desert, right? General Ziad
actually went to Arafat, Rahim of Allah, and he said, like, this is
like, supposed to be one of the most sacred places in Islam, and
it's completely buried.
So he's he sat with his people, and he's like, how can we make
this place look a little bit nicer? And so some he said, Can,
can we plant any and will any tree survive over here? And so he asked
some botanists in Pakistan. They're like, yeah, the only tree
that will survive over there that will keep the that will keep the
the dirt and the sand down is the Arak tree, so as a gift like so
imagine so many decades ago, the military dictator of Pakistan
gifted a bunch of Iraq trees so as to keep the keep the
the earth like settled in that place. And
I remember I mentioned this one time.
On, you know, and hatch. And one old Baba got really upset. He
said, Oh, you so disrespect to why'd you call him military
dictator? I'm like, It's not disrespect as to what, actually,
what he was. He said, What do you mean? I go, did he, like, run for
election? No, he took force by power. That's fine. It's okay.
But at any rate, that was really it's, you know, emotional uncles
and their favorite politician then and now are still very, like,
volatile and difficult to deal with. But the point is, is that I
mentioned this thing, and so some like, random Egyptian Auntie came
to be distressed as if she destroyed her entire Hajj. She's
like, you know, you mentioned that one time on the day of Arafat,
like, like, after assert, you remember you mentioned that I'm
trying to make dua, and she's like, freaking out. And you can
tell she's trying to keep it together, but she's having a hard
time. She's like, really, like, deliberately saying that. She's,
like, about to have like, mental breakdown in tears. She said, You
remember how you said about this is the Miss walk tree. So I, I
broke off a branch, and, like, now is my Hajj ruin. Is my haram ruin,
because
it's part of the of the haram. I'm like, it's not part of the haram.
We're outside the Haram, right? Now, don't worry. And she was,
like, overjoyed that humble, like, still, like, don't, if you can,
just don't mess with the trees, because there's like,
like, 4 million people there, or something like that, right? So it
takes its toll, but that's how insignificant of the thing is she
just, you know, broke off a branch and didn't think about it, and
then got freaked out because she thought it was the Haram, but it's
not the haram.
So imagine, right? You're not going to be like, Oh, I was in
Hajin. I mindlessly shoplifted like, Snickers bar from somewhere.
No, like, you know, you're stealing at that point, right? So
you wouldn't do it.
So this is even less than that. So imagine going to jahannam for a
Snickers bar, so the
Prophet says, I said, this is even like more than that. Why? Because
you abused the name of the Lord, and you
then took the right of somebody else, and they're not going to get
it back. This is something that, like, you know, parents don't
teach their children, so they grow up doing like small things, and
then, when they grow up like they then
cheat one another in big things as well.
One Abdullah, Anhu
Wan Huma and in Nabi SallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, Allah Al kabaru,
ali sharaku, Bilal, Bucharest, come to me.
Amin al
Hus
a Allah anuma, Married
from the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi, from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam,
that he said that the great sins, the enormous sins, like the
biggest of sins, are that you should worship someone other than
Allah, associate partners with Allah, and that you should Jilt
your parents,
not honor them, and that You should kill another person,
and that you should
swear an oath. That's that you know is a lie.
And in another narration, Bedouin came to the Prophet, sallAllahu,
alayhi wasallam, and he said, nomad. He said, Oh, Messenger of
Allah, what are the greatest of sins? He says, He said Sallam to
associate partners with Allah. He said, then what he said, to make a
Yamin ramus, an oath that is based on a lie, literally, an oath that
you drown, that drowns you.
And the Bedouin says, What is the Yamin ramus? What is this drowning
oath. He said, it's that oath that you swear by which you break off
some part of the property of another Muslim because of an oath
You swore that you knew was completely wrong. It was
completely you knew it was a lie, and you just said it by the name
of Allah.
Now, before moving on, because that's the end of this chapter,
hopefully it's not. I mean, there's a lot to say for sure, but
hopefully it's not all that complicated to understand
what is being warned against and why
it's bad.
But, you know, I would hope that the company who's present don't go
around every day and say, like, oh yeah, I swear. You know, I paid
you yesterday, or like, like, lying like that, right? The second
thing you should think of is, what is that don't swear an oath about
something that you might be wrong in. You're like, 99% sure don't
swear an oath. Then that you're 100% sure
don't swear an oath at all. Say, like, I'm 99% sure you.
Don't open your mouth until you're 100% sure if there's a possibility
it's wrong. Don't use the name of Allah, and don't act like it's
like, 100% sure, because mistakes do happen, mis misunderstandings
do happen.
It happens, and you don't want to, like, completely escalate to the
point of, like,
you know, coming to blows, or, like, breaking off ties with one
another, and then afterward it turns out like that 1% or that
fraction of a percent that you thought you know, that you didn't
account for that that turned out to be true, or that turned out to
be the case on the Day of Judgment, a person will say, will
be better safe than sorry. It's better that you left out some part
of your right and saved yourself from saying something that will
destroy your akhirah, then over speaking, and then coming away
with somebody else's property, and then they show up to claim it from
you, and on that day. So what I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to,
is only good with Allah, with everybody else, you know, the
question is, where's my money?
So be very careful about that. Now this is another problem, right?
Because the issue is, look, the civilization of Islam, much of it
operated in such a way that
people used to not lie, and they used to not lie with the name of
Allah. When they someone took an oath by Allah, they really meant
it. They could reliably, you could reliably see that they they meant
it. Some people would break such an oath, but there are very few
and very far between. And if like it was found out such a person is
like that, like society would correct itself. Now, we think
people who lie about things are, you
know, they think of themselves as smart, and other people like, oh,
yeah, that's what I should have done.
There's a masjid President one time he said to me, Alhamdulillah,
you know, I've never lied before. And literally oblivious to what he
just said, he went on, like, within short order, less than two
minutes, to explain the story of how he came to America
on a fake marriage.
The thing is, we live in that time now nobody cares anymore.
The truth means nothing to people. And when you catch a person lying,
and you're like, Hey, why would you lie? No, no, that's not a lie,
they they really don't think it's a lie. One thing is that they're
like, trying to gaslight you. They're those type of people as
well. Some people themselves are so, like, dysfunctional inside,
they're not gaslighting you on purpose, because they themselves.
They've gaslit themselves. They've outsmarted themselves. They're too
clever for them, their own mind to work anymore.
So how do you deal with people like that? Because if you're
dealing with people like that all the time, and you have to give
everybody the benefit of the doubt, you're going to end up
going broke,
right? What do you think if you, if you had to, if you had to trust
every Muslim you dealt with in your business,
would you make money doing business with, with some sector of
the Muslim population? Maybe not. I don't know.
They're not all like that, Alhamdulillah, but there are some
of them, you know, if you roll the dice, you know, one out of, you
know, 10 days, or whatever, you might see a day like that, which
is really messed up. But here we are.
This is also a practical part of your saluk and a practical part of
your taso. If you have to be sure whenever you press a claim with
somebody, and everybody around you is a complete Joker who's trying
to, like, swindle you. Okay, be very careful who transact with you
don't have to do business with everyone.
You don't have to work with everyone. You don't have to, you
know, do give, you know, like whatever, volunteer for every
cause. You don't have to be on the committee of every masjid or of
every MSA or of every group that you're in. Be a little bit you
have a limited amount of life. Yes, in our hearts, we're
commanded to love good for everybody. We're commanded to love
good for the entire world,
even the most, like disgusting
Zog, who's like, right now, you know, like, putting a post
boasting about, like, whatever weird debauchery he's doing right
now. In theory, you should at least be you should be happy if he
made Toba and, like, said, I'm sorry. And like, stop zogging.
But, but for practical purposes, you have only a limited amount of
bandwidth, emotionally, mentally, you only have a limited number of
dollars in your pocket. You only have a limited number of breaths
left until you die.
So invest them and spend them on the things that are going to pay
off the most. Don't waste your time pinning your hopes on on on
stuff that's shady.
Rather spend most of your time doing things and with people who
are going to pay off that are going to pay off. So you cannot,
like, for example, you can't cut your parents out. You can't cut
your like brothers, and you can't cut your immediate family off,
right? Mashallah, you guys have nice parents. Marshall, right?
Anyhow, but you know you can't, for those who don't, you know you
can't just cut your parents off. So, okay, well, there's, it's
really important.
Starting to like, be good to your parents, you can invest a little
bit more bandwidth into that. But that doesn't mean if some random,
like person off the street is like, you know, acting dumb with
you like that, that you should waste your time
again. You don't have to cuss the guy out, or you don't have to,
like, say, you just be like, you know, I don't have time for this.
You don't have to say, I don't have time to for this to the
person you can recognize, I wish I had time to help everybody, to
save the children and save the whales and pet every kitty cat and
give every person who's broken hearted in the world a hug. But I
can't, it's mathematically impossible. So I'm going to invest
all of those things in what and the places, the people, the
causes, the deeds that will make the most sense and that are the
most unimpeded toward some sort of success. People who cannot tell
the truth are not worth your time. If you have a spouse, you're
thinking about marrying someone and they can't tell the truth,
don't marry them if you're already married to them, you know, if
something they do annoys you, you know, like they never like put the
you know, they squeeze a toothpaste tube from the middle.
You can make summer with that. It's annoying. It burns sometimes
those types of things, right? Or whatever I do that annoys my
spouses. I don't know, right? Those things are annoying, right?
But you can make summer with a lot of those things. Lying. If you
don't have kids, it's time to get out. If you have kids, you have to
find some way to, like, circumnavigate this problem,
Allah, help you. But like a person who cannot be truthful, people
can't be truthful with one another. This is a really big
problem. This is a really big problem. And
you know the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wasallam, he expressed it,
and now people have turned their back on this teaching. So we're
living it. The solution for you. Okay, you cannot make everybody in
Pakistan and India tell the truth. You can't make everybody in Egypt
and, you know, Jordan tell the truth. Okay, fine, but at least
the people you can choose to transact with, the people you can
choose to work with. You know, look for those people who are
like, actually reliable and trustworthy for you to work with.
It used to be that the Muslims were reliable and trustworthy and
other people weren't so even kufar used to prefer dealing with
Muslims, and it's still the case in certain places, but in general,
it seems to have lapsed.
So okay, fine. You cannot fix the world. We're not here to like,
curse circumstance or whatever, but whoever you deal with in your
circle, don't take like you know, it's important to feel the Dart of
the ummah. It's important to feel the pain and suffering of the
Ummah inside of your heart, but don't
carry it around with you like a cross that you crush yourself
because you crush yourself from that entire burden. It's not going
to help anybody. It's not going to help them. It's not going to help
you. You carry the burden inside, that crushing burden inside of
your heart and make dua for it. When you make dua, practically
speaking, you know,
be part of the solution by dealing with those people who are who are
honest and who are truthful. So you don't have to put yourself in
the situation where you have to, like, swear up and down and
constantly second guess yourself and like, second guess it. But you
deal with the person who lies habitually, what's going to end up
happening is you're going to take the benefit of the doubt away from
them, and then one day you'll get into into some sort of dispute
with them, and you'll miscalculate, you'll overplay your
hand, and you're going to end up then yourself like being somebody
who lies or takes a false oath against that person. Why put
yourself in that situation? It's better just deal with people.
There's art, art of dealing with people. You know Muhammad. One of
the things Imam Muhammad alham, he was, he said that that he his just
in was like Muhammad, why? Because you have to deal with people
differently. If you're dealing with honest and trustworthy
people, you can tell them, hey, you know, this is the key to my
garage. You can take whatever you want and then pay me when you have
the money.
So people will tell you exactly what they took, and they'll pay
you when they have the money.
Some people will go inside of your house and like, rob you blind, and
be like, Oh, I didn't make it to your house today.
So the latter type of people don't say that to them. Why? Because
inevitably, you're going to, like, overreact against them, or you're
not going to overreact, and you'll just starve to death, because the
dunya is the dunya. If you don't eat and drink or whatever, you're
still going to like, you know it's going to harm you, and that's also
not a good thing. That's also not helpful for your salute, to be an
idiot, to get cheated all the time. It happens from time to
time. It's okay, but like to do it on purpose and just to be
neglectful, that's not going to help anybody. Someone, I think
Sheik Nuh, one time he asked, like, he said, he read, like, one
of the Hickam or something like that, that, like,
you know, that one of the mashhai said something like, you know,
this is, it's a story of one of the mashhai that someone, like,
took something from them, or whatever, and then he looked
inside his heart, and his heart didn't change because he had it,
or he didn't have it, or whatever, something like that. So Sheik, he
asked, he asked his chef. He goes, Hey, if someone took something of
yours, would you be would you also your heart wouldn't change? He's
like, You're kidding me. Not only would my heart change, I take a
stick and smack him in the head.
Now those people, I really think probably their heart wouldn't have
changed, but the lesson is very.
Important. It's very helpful for regular people who are trying to
get to that station, which is what don't if you don't like, you know,
you shouldn't like getting robbed, so don't let people take you to
that point. So there's a reason, you know, if you want to transact
with people who are somehow truthfully challenged people, then
what do you do? You know, instead of letting them into the store.
You just put bars in the in the front window, and they point. They
say, We want that, that thing, you know? And so you go get it down
and look, it'll be like $15.28
and wait for them to put the money in first. Then you slide the thing
under the thing out back to them. That's also an honest transaction.
There are parts, there are parts of their largest swaths of Chicago
that that's the only way you can buy or sell anything. And if those
stores weren't there, then the people would suffer for it. So
that's also a type of service. And NASA Allah Allah a said what, he
said that that treat people according to their station.
He said that we the in the national MBI, allahuman. NASA
Allah Allah the gathering of the prophets, alayhim salam, were
commanded not to talk to people except for on the level that
they're going to be able to understand. So this is also one
practical kind of side point so you can extricate yourself from
having to be in situations where you might
fall into, unknowingly, fall into
taking something from somebody without its right, that a person
lies to you 100 times, 99 times out of 100 I should say, and then
the one time he was telling the truth, but you assumed he was
lying, and you stole something from him. That's not good. You
don't want to have to give the hissab for that on the Day of
Judgment.
The akhira is all, all we have,
all of your worries and concerns. If someone here is worried about
the future, am I going to get married? Am I going to find a
Malaki teacher? Am I, you know, is I married? Is my wife going to
come? Is my business going to work? Are my kids going to this?
Am I going to get a job at a masjid or a madrasa or am I going
to end up having to take an IT job after graduating from madness. Is
this going to happen? Is that going to happen? Is, you know,
anyone here from Florida, is the alligator in my backyard going to
eat me? I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. In fact,
probably all the worst case scenarios that I just mentioned.
There's a good op. There's a good chance, if I was not to lie,
there's good chance all those things could happen. But the one
thing that all of us, even a very thoroughly salted and salty
individual like myself, can tell you that will make you feel better
and make me feel better as the akhira with akhiratul Abu KAh, why
in the world would a person want to put themselves in a situation
to water that down? The akhira is such that you remember it, and
then you'll be like, Okay. Things will probably be okay in this
world. And even if they're not, they'll still be okay. You'll
still be happy. Whereas the people who don't have the ahira there,
they have no resilience. They have no way of coping with anything. I
was in, you know, just last weekend, Akron, Akron, Ohio,
a woman cut off a man to get into the drive drive through line at
Taco Bell.
Alhamdulillah, it's on the boycott list.
If we had were deprived, otherwise, we would have missed it
and cried. But I don't miss it. It's on the boycott list. So,
Alhamdulillah, right, but so what happens a woman cut off a dude in
the drive thru lineup
Taco Bell, which is going to result in a grand total of what
three minutes and 14.2 seconds more of waiting, right? So the guy
must not willing to be cheated so severely and suffer such loss and
perdition got out of his pickup truck with automatic weapon, or
not, with automatic with a rifle and shot the woman
and killed her, and then he killed himself as well.
This is the type of logic that makes sense to you. When you don't
have an akhira,
you're like, damn it, burrito supreme, three minutes and 14
seconds later than otherwise I could have had. I'm done with all
of this.
At any rate, we have the akhira. It makes it such that there are
people who suffer catastrophic loss that like would numb the soul
of like any 100 individuals if distributed amongst, distributed
amongst them, but they're still actually happy. They're still
actually happy. They say, Alhamdulillah, they're still
happy. People don't, don't waste it for this type of stuff. Be
careful who you interact with and how you interact with people.
Husma means what that in your heart you believe a person is a
good person. It's not to transact with people in ways that that
expose you to very real risks.
That's not That's not what is. Babu nadvi Man halafa, Allah Yamin
and Farah minha and ya fala dalika al mahlufa alehi a summa, yukafer
and Yamini. It's a chapter regarding the recommendation for
the one who swore an oath,
and then afterward
finds that a course of action other than conforming with a.
Is more,
is more sinful than to break it and
render the expiation for, for for breaking meaning for some of you,
to someone of you to stubbornly persist in and oath that there's a
better, that there's something better to do, better than that,
because a person can swear an oath to a sin as well. It's still an
oath.
So if a person swears an oath like that, just give the kafara and
don't do it.
Don't persist in in it, because that's sinful. And the context for
all of this is, what is what is that the Arabs used to be very
particular about keeping their oaths.
And so in anger, someone would like, swear, it's like, really
crazy oath, I swear I'll drink wine out of the skull and so and
so. Like, they used to leave like, these are actual oaths that they
used to they used to do weird stuff like that. So Islam is like,
look, it's important to keep your oaths, but not at the you know, at
the cost of like disobeying Allah subhanahu wa, and that's why this
medium of expiation, of being able to break an oath and expiate for
it when there's genuine when there's a genuine reason to
meaning that one course of action is genuinely better than the
other. This is a great mercy from Allah, and that mechanism will be
mentioned in this subsequent chapter. Babula afui and lamini
wa Anu, laka, farata, fihi wa Hua malisani Be ready as the LE Amini
kakouli, He Allah, Aditi, Wallahi, wabala, Wallahi,
Wanaka,
so the chapter regarding forgiveness from Allah, regarding
a an oath that's like a meaningless oath,
and that meaningless oaths have no expiation due on upon them for
those oaths that just kind of slip out on the tongue without, without
intending it to be an oath,
like the habit of the Arabs to say, Wallahi, indeed, Wallahi and
etcetera. Some people that's just, they're kind of like the way they
talk, and so they may slip out Wallahi this, and Wallahi, that,
and Wallahi, Wallahi, blah blah blah, and then, you know, you
can't just be, oh, you said by the name of Allah, Bam, done. You're a
liar. You're going to jahannam blah blah blah. No, it's look,
it's better to control the way you speak and not to speak like that.
But some of these things are so spread in society, it's like a
lot, you can't really fix it from all people at all times. If you
teach one person not to say it, there's like 10 other people who
you know are going to learn to speak this way because, you know,
because of who they hang out with, or whatever. And so there is some
forgiveness in the Sharia regarding these things. And
we read
Paul Allahu, Taala Allah, Allah, Most High says in his book. La,
you asked Allah, Allah is not going to take you to task for the
meaningless,
the meaningless oaths that you may pronounce, those things you just
they just come out of the mouth you didn't really mean them. Wala,
can you Ahman, rather, Allah subhanahu. WA, take you to task
for those, those oaths that you took, that you that you like
contracted, that you solidified in your heart with your intentions
for kafara to Abu Ashara to Masaki and I mean, oh Sati MATO, tamuna,
ali Kum Oka, swatu Hum, oh, Tahrir, raka baton from Malala.
Allah says that
that Allah is not going
to take you to task for the vain oath, the oath that's meaningless.
Rather, he takes you to task for those oath that you, that you
take with intention.
And the expiation for those oaths, if you have to break them, because
there's some better course of action, the expiation for those
oaths is to feed 10 indigent people from the from the
mid grade food of what you feed your own families. So nothing
super cheap, super too cheap, nor the most expensive thing in the
world, but just the normal food that you feed your your families,
or to clothe 10 such people, or to free us a slave, and who is,
whoever's unable to do any of those things, then let them fast
three days.
So that's the second preference, is to fast three days. And that is
the expiation of your oaths, if you swear them, but
guard your oaths, meaning if.
If it's not, if there's not a reason to break it and do
something else, if it's a good oath, then go ahead and fulfill
it. Don't, you know, don't, don't just, like, expiate just for the
sake of not doing it for convenience or whatever. And so
this is from the Quran, but the first part is, what that Allah
doesn't take you to task for the Lahu, from your from your oath,
the filthy details regarding all of these things are different in
the different Mada.
So you can go learn that from your your fiqh teachers
in the Maliki school, in the Shafi school, my understanding is that
that the lahul Imam, there's no,
there's no kafara for it. I think in the Hanafi school there is, and
then what the details of those things are, you can go learn them
from fit class. The point is, don't you know that, even then,
like, it's not a sin whether you have to give the kafara or not,
that's that's the the point of this is that if it just comes out,
this is not what we're talking about. It's not as it's not the
same thing in your salute, if it just kind of comes out of your
mouth. So if you follow Madhab in which you still have to expiate
for such an oath, then that's that's a filth detail. But the two
things are not the same.
When Aisha Tara
the Allah had him, AYATUL, Ibu Kumu, Lahu will love a manikum If
you call it rajali. Lau, lahim, Abu, Ayesha
radi Allah said that this ayah that we read just before that
Allah will not take you to task for the meaningless
oaths that you swear
that this was
revealed because of,
like, the instance of a man saying, Oh no, Wallahi, or no, or
indeed, by Wallahi, that they just blurted out the name of Allah
Taala when answering a question without really realizing that
they're using The name of Allah because that's just how they talk.
Babu Kara hatal Healthy al halifi In Canada, sadatan, the chapter
regarding the detestability of of swearing
while selling things, even if they're telling the truth.
And have you heard of the Allah and who pass to who said that
he
heard
the
Messenger of Allah, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, say
that swearing
is something that will cause people to buy more of your goods,
but it will erase
the it'll erase your earning. And it's a hadith both of Bukhari and
Muslim. The point of it is, what is what is that? Yeah, you can
say, Yeah, Wallahi, it's like this. Wallahi, it's like that. And
because you swore an oath, and because you said Wallahi, and
because you're like beard and hijab and Jill Bob and niqab and
kebab and whatever else you know, like all these things like it
will, it will cause people to trust you more, or will attract
their attention or jar them into, you know, buying what you have.
But it will, it will erase the barakah. There will be no Baraka
you'll, you'll decrease the barakah of your earnings so you're
going to sell something, just say what it is. You don't have to, you
don't have to swear an oath about this or that. And you shouldn't
swear an oath about this or that is detestable. Is not a good
habit.
One of you pat, Muslim.
He narrates that he heard the messenger, Allah, sallAllahu
alaihi salam say something similar, which is that he says, I
warn you with regards to frequently
swearing, not swearing as in bad words, but swearing like by Allah.
This by Allah, that while selling things, because it may attract
people to spend, but it will
efface. And here's the effacement that's being referenced, is
barakah that it will efface the barakah from
from whatever a person earns.
Musall Allah Rasulullah, Sayyidina, muhammadu, Allah Ali.
He was a