Page 58 - What the Qur'an Says about Liars and Their Methods

HOW LIARS

SPEAK AND BEHAVE

L L iars may regard themselves as very clever;
however, their behavior, way of speaking,
voice, looks, and even the words that they use
give them away at once. In fact, there are great differences be-
tween how liars and honest people behave and speak.

Liars try to persuade others
by continually swearing oaths
Insincere people frequently swear oaths in order to make
others believe them. Allah points out this striking characteris-
tic in several verses of the Qur'an. For example, He tells us that
individual hypocrites swore an oath that they believed our
Prophet (saas) to be a true Prophet, when in fact they did not
accept him as a Prophet at all. Thus, Allah informs us that they
were liars:
When the hypocrites come to you, they say: "We bear
witness that you are indeed the Messenger of Allah."
Allah knows that you are indeed His Messenger, and
Allah bears witness that the hypocrites are certainly
liars. They have made their oaths into a cloak and
barred the Way of Allah. What they have done is truly
evil. That is because they have believed and then re-
turned to unbelief. So their hearts have been sealed

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