April fool - STRADA PLACIDO

Salaamaleykum,

Today is , 1st of April a.k.a. april fool's day.
My sister asked me for a good prank to pull on her friends. My reply was ; tell them you're having brain cancer and gonna die. Of course, she didn't take the advice. If I'm not mistaken, she decided to tell her friends a notoriously monstrous teacher has called for them.
She was so sure she can pull a good prank on her friends, as, so far, she has never lied, so they will definitely take her words seriously.

Based on this, what can we conclude? A person is going to put his/her creditability at stake, for the sake of a prank. I'm sure my sister is not a unique case. Many upon millions of people out there are gonna do the same.

Heck! have they not heard of the boy who cried wolf??? From a secular point of view, lying feeds no humour nor amusement if it is at the cost of your creditability.

Pranks are done at the cost of someone else's distress. If that person has some heart problem, that poor fella would have died. Even if he/she didn't die, are we barbarians to laugh at someone's displeasure. To extrapolate the situation, imagine a boss, firing his employer in the morning, only to tell him its a joke at the end of the day. Imagine the agony and anxiety the poor man, upon whom his whole family depends on, has to face during his few hours of 'apparent unemployment'. Simply barbaric.

Some say, take a chill pill. To those people, I'ld say, ask those victims of April Fool's day pranks to take the chill pill. Simple google search will show you, just how much these pranks can cost.

I'm not discouraging april fool's day, I'm discouraging thoughtless pranks altogether! Khalas!

And for the religious minded amongst us, there are countless Fatwa/decrees against pranks and lying and specifically 'April Fool'. Here's one Fatwa from a reliable source.

While we are in this topic, I'ld like to stress that I dissociate this post from an commonly circulated story that Muslims should avoid April fool because it was the label the Europeans used on us (poisson d'avril) when we lost and left Granada (Spain). I have tried hard to find its source, other then that email/post ,that states no sources nor any specific traceble detail.
We should avoid April fool, simply because of its Haram to lie. name callings and event of the past looming around it are, merely accessories which should not be the foundation of our reprisal.

Allah MADAD!