Kamal El Mekki - Lying

About this lecture

In this Friday khutbah, Sheikh Kamal El Mekki delivers a comprehensive lecture on the Islamic perspective on lying, covering its psychological signs, its severe consequences in this life and the Hereafter, and its dangers as a sign of hypocrisy. He draws on Quranic examples from Surah Yusuf, powerful hadith on truthfulness and falsehood, and classical scholarly wisdom to warn against lying in all its forms — including on social media, to children, and against Allah and His Messenger ﷺ. The lecture concludes with a detailed breakdown of the five permissible cases where a degree of untruth is allowed in Islam.