and pray for the curse of Allah on the liars.” (Surah Āli- Imrān 3:61) It can be understood from the verses of the Qur’an that a liar calls for divine curse and invites the anger of Allah (S.w.T.). “Surely Allah does not guide him aright who is a liar, ungrateful.” (Surah az-Zumar 39:3) “Only they forge the lie who do not believe in Allah’s communications, and these are the liars.” “Lying is an evil, greater than drinking wine.” Qur’anic verses denounce lyingĪllah the Almighty says in Surah an-Nahl, verse 105: It is for this very reason that the traditions state: Often due to lying, innocent people are sent to the gallows and their families destroyed. Understandably this is the worst kind of falsehood. One kind of falsehood is that which is attributed to Allah (S.w.T.), the Holy Prophet (S) or the Holy Imams (a.s.).
Some lies blight the honour of thousands of people or endanger their lives, or lead to economic disasters. Some false words lead to war between two tribes or two sections of the society. It is obvious that the evils of lying are more dreadful than those of adultery. Such fornications that the least of which is fornication with ones mother.” 3 Such a stench emanates from his heart that it reaches the sky and because of this single lie Allah writes for him a sin equivalent to that of committing seventy fornications. “When a believer utters a lie without a valid excuse, he is cursed by seventy thousand angels. The Prophet of Islam in another tradition is quoted to have said, “All the evils have been locked in a room and its key is lying.” 2 Angels curse the liars “Beware I inform you regarding the greatest of the mortal sins: Associating anything with Allah, disobeying parents and lying!” 1Ī similar tradition has been quoted from Imam Hasan al-Askari (a.s.) also, Lying is one of the greatest sinsĪ tradition from the Holy Prophet (S) declares, Lying is listed with the greater sins in the narration of Fazl Ibn Shazān from Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (a.s.).
The corpus of hadith (opinion of the majority of the jurists) verifies this tenet and reason also sustains this assertion.” “Common sense suggests lying is Harām, all the revealed religions also say so particularly Islam. The famous scholar, Shaykh Ansari (r.a.) writes in his book, Makasib al-Muharrama:
Lying is another sin which is classified among the Greater sins.
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