At least don't lie to your kids!

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Ever heard a kid argue that 'Tooth Fairy' or 'Santa Claus' are real - because their parents said so? This is the pure nature on which Allah has created the humanity- they don't know of lying and deception. They trust their parents and are certain that they will not lie to them. Contrast that to the behavior of parents who assume that it's acceptable to lie to kids because they are kids! Some even play tricks with them - like replacing tooth with a coin under the pillow while they are asleep  - enforcing false belief in them.

How wrong would it be, if someone (other than your kid) trusted you with the same level of trust and you deceived them? Your kids have more right that you be truthful to them. It is important for a Muslim to be truthful, as it is the essence of all goodness. If we are not truthful with even our own kids then how can we be truthful to others? If we deceive when there is little or no gain from it, then how will we be when we see some benefit in it?

A lie or deception is evil and it doesn't become good when done to kids. This is why Prophet (ﷺ) advised not to lie to kids and reminded that it will certainly be written as a lie.⁽¹⁾ He (ﷺ) also cursed one who lies just to make others laugh.⁽²⁾ This shows the severity of lies and deceit is even more when there is little or no benefit to be gained out of it. We should always remember that these lies and deception do cause us to deviate from the pure nature that Allah has created us with and adopt a religion other than the religion of Allah.

There is none born but is created to his true nature (Islam). It is his parents who make him a Jew or a Christian or a Magian ⁽³⁾⁽⁴⁾ 

May Allah protect make us from the truthful and successful ones.

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 1.  Narrated Abdullah ibn Amir: My mother called me one day when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was sitting in our house. She said: Come here and I shall give you something. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) asked her: What did you intend to give him? She replied: I intended to give him some dates. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: If you were not to give him anything, a lie would be recorded against you. (Sunan Abi Dawud - graded hasan by Imam Albani)
2. Bahz bin Hakim narrated from his father, from his grandfather that Prophet (s.a.w) said:
"Woe to the one who talks about something to make the people laugh, in which he lies. Woe to him! Woe to him!" (Jami` at-Tirmidhi)
3. There is none born but is created to his true nature (Islam). It is his parents who make him a Jew or a Christian or a Magian quite as beasts produce their young with their limbs perfect. Do you see anything deficient in them? Then he quoted the Qur'an., The nature made by Allah in which He has created men there is no altering of Allah's creation; that is the right religion" (ar-Rum:30) (Sahih Muslim)
4. Abdullah bin Mas'ud (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Truth leads to piety and piety leads to Jannah. A man persists in speaking the truth till he is enrolled with Allah as a truthful. Falsehood leads to vice and vice leads to the Fire (Hell), and a person persists on telling lies until he is enrolled as a liar".' [Agreed upon].