Friday Sermon: Combatting lying and mischief-making, and the prohibition of hiding the truth, By Murtadha Gusau

Allah the Almighty says: “And it is not your wealth, not your children that bring you nearer to Us, but only he who believes and does righteous deeds; as for such there will be twofold reward for what they did and they will reside in the high dwellings (Paradise/Jannah) in peace and security.’ [Al-Bukhari] Allah the Almighty says: “Verily the Muslim men and women, the believing men and women, the men and women who are truthful in their speech and deeds, the men and women who are patient, the men and women who are humble before their Lord, the men and women who give charity, the men and women who observe fasting, the men and women who guard their chastity and the men and women who remember Allah much with their hearts and tongues, Allah has prepared for them forgiveness and a great reward (i.” [Bukhari and Muslim] As for the reward of truthfulness in the hereafter, it is the pleasure of Allah and high degree in Paradise (Jannah) in which there are pleasures which no eyes have seen, no ears have heard and no heart has thought of.