MISCELLANEOUS | Enjoining the good and forbidding the evil |

Joking with lies

Question: Is there a difference between intentionally lying and jokingly lying? And is it permissible for a person to lie jokingly?

Response: No, it is not permissible.

Question: (So) all of it is judged (regarded) the same?

Response: Yes, (it is) haraam. The Messenger of Allaah (sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa sallam) only spoke the truth.

Shaykh al-Albaanee

al-Haawee min Fataawa ash-Shaykh al-Albaanee – Page 390-391

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Published: 12 September 2003