Book Name:Jhoot ki Tabah Kariyaan
truthfulness. اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ, you shall attain both religious and worldly blessings.
Let’s listen to another faith-inspiring parable about the blessing of truthfulness with the intention of deriving Madani pearls from it:
One day Hajjaj Bin Yusuf was carrying out the execution of a few prisoners. One particular prisoner stood and remarked: ‘O leader! I have a right over you.’ ‘What is that?’ Hajjaj asked. The prisoner explained: ‘One day, a certain individual insulted you but I spoke in your defence.’ ‘Who is a witness to this incident?’ Hajjaj enquired. The prisoner pleaded to the people: ‘For the sake of Almighty Allah can anyone who witnessed that conversation please testify (in my favour).’ Another prisoner rose and confessed: ‘Yes! This incident occurred in front of me.’ Hajjaj allowed the first prisoner to be freed, after which he asked the witness: ‘What prevented you from defending me like that other prisoner?’ He answered truthfully: ‘What stopped me was an old enmity towards you in my heart.’ Hajjaj Bin Yusuf remarked: ‘Set him free too, since he has spoken the truth with immense courage.’ (Wafyaat-ul-A’yaan, vol. 2, pp. 28; The Lying Thief, pp. 19)
Dear Islamic sisters! We learnt here that honest people will always prosper. There is an Urdu proverb, “Saanch ko aanch nahin”, meaning an honest person has nothing to fear; only benefit shall be in her destiny. However it is with tremendous disappointment that we must acknowledge that today in our communities lying has transformed into an awfully fatal disease. Sadly today people even lie in predicaments where speaking the truth does not even cause any worldly harm.
One such case is that of parents lying to their young children. You can easily notice parents forging various lies in order to get their way with young/small children. Examples are: “Come here son I’ll give you something, then you can go (but you don’t intend to give him anything).” Or saying something like this in order to calm him down: “Son be quiet, we’ll buy you toys (when in fact you have no intention to do so).” Another example is using lies to scare them into obedience and prohibit them from disobedience. Such as: “Go to sleep quickly otherwise a cat or dog will come” etc. Please remember that statements such as these are all examples of lying. In such cases not only is the speaker herself committing the major sin of lying in fact one of the side