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Lately, everything and everyone around us seem weird. The people we talk to, their behaviors and their thoughts. SubhanAllah, the Prophet- Peace Be Upon Him – himself has told us that a time will come where people whom speak the truth shall not be trusted. 

I don’t know why it is so hard for people to believe us when we speak the truth, yet when we lie they get so frustrated and say that they won’t trust us anymore. They put us in a situation where you don’t know whether you should speak the truth or easily lie to escape the punishment. I can’t tolerate it when we speak the truth and people look at us or talk to us as if all what is coming out of our mouths are lies that are built upon lies. Even though, at times, our nafs asks us to lie so that we would stay out of trouble but we fight back because we know that getting punished is better than lying, however even when we speak the truth they think we are lying. 

The whole thing reminds me of the story we’ve known during our childhood about the little boy and the wolf, the boy who always used to lie about the wolf and when the wolf actually came and he cried out for help, no one believed him. What we are going through is similar to this story except that we are having a different version, that even if we have been telling the truth since the start, people will still not believe us. They probably won’t believe us until they see, by themselves, the wolf eating us alive. Our environment is encouraging us to do the opposite, to lie rather than speak the truth because we know that in both cases you shall be punished and not believed. 

Still, we shouldn’t be vulnerable and let our nafs control us and simply lie. All what we should do is accept the finger pointing, criticism and looks we get and remember that Allah will, inshaAllah, reward us for telling the truth. 

May Allah strengthen our Iman Ameen