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A good trait, cowardice is not a good trait, but is it possible that a person could be a believer, but they suffer from the quality of being cowardly?

And the Prophet ﷺ said, yes, is it possible that a believer could be a stingy person?

Obviously, stinginess is not a good trait, but at the same time, is it possible that a person could be a believer,

struggling with the quality of miserliness, of being stingy?

So the Prophet ﷺ said, yes, is it possible that a believer could be a liar, the Prophet ﷺ said no?

Now, another narration from Amr ﷺ, in Ibn Abi Dunya, that's authentically narrated to him,

he said, la tajjis al-Mukmina ke dhaba, you will not find that a believer could ever be a liar.

In another narration from Sa'id al-Mukhaas al-Mukhaas al-Mukmina,

they are multiple ones, which is authentically traced to him, where he says,

that a believer may sometimes be afflicted with having every type of trait, except for two,

khyana, betrayal, and lying, al-Khada.

That these are traits that a believer just cannot have.

Now, obviously, if you read this narration or you read these Ahadith by themselves,

the obvious benefit of it is that lying is extremely serious and looked down upon in our deep,

that it is impossible to maintain faith, to maintain Imam, and to be a liar at the same time.

And there's a difference between someone that falls into a lie here or there,

and someone who habitually lies, lying becomes an addiction.

That's why you have the phrase compulsive liar.

It works out for you once or twice, three times, four times.

And then you realize that you're able to cut corners with lying,

and so you start to lie in order to get past certain things,

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