Shaykh Ubaydullah Evans gives comforting spiritual insights about when a Muslim is allowed to lie to reconcile between people and to conveys something good or says something good.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said "A liar is not one who tries to bring reconciliation amongst people and speaks good (in order to avert dispute), or he conveys good." [Muslim]

This is clip from a sermon in which Ustadh Evans spoke the powerful advice the Prophet gave when he entered in Madina:    • Feed, Greet and Pray: The Prophet's A...  -

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This sermon was delivered at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on February 11, 2022.

Narrated that Umm Kalthoom bint ‘Uqbah said: I never heard the Messenger of Allah grant a concession allowing any kind of lying except in three cases: a man who says something intending thereby to bring about reconciliation; a man who says something at the time of war; and a man talking to his wife or a woman talking to her husband. (Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in as-Saheehah, 545)

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Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans is ALIM’s first Scholar-in-Residence. He converted to Islam while in high school. Upon conversion, Ustadh Ubaydullah began studying some of the foundational books of Islam under the private tutelage of local scholars while simultaneously pursuing a degree in journalism from Columbia.

Since then he has studied at Chicagoland’s Institute of Islamic Education (IIE), in Tarim, Yemen, and Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, where he is the first African-American to graduate from its Shari’a program.

Ustadh Ubaydullah also instructs with the Ta’leef Collective and the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) at times. Follow him on Facebook at   / ubaydullahevans  

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