Page 90 - What the Qur'an Says about Liars and Their Methods

THE SOLUTION TO LYING—

NOT WISHING TO DISPLEASE

ALLAH

eople lie because they do not know and heed
P P Allah as they should. Those who are aware that

Allah sees and hears them at all times, knows
their heart and innermost thoughts, and knows all of their
thoughts, and who understand this reality, never lie. They
strive to avoid incurring Allah's punishment and take refuge in
Him, and do their best not to utter a single word that will earn
them His displeasure in the Hereafter. If they do utter such a
word, through thoughtlessness or error, they correct it imme-
diately and ask Allah to forgive them.
The main characteristic of liars is that they either do not
believe in the afterlife or that they doubt their faith and there-
fore do not think very much about the afterlife. As Allah tells
us in the Qur'an, "those who do not believe in Allah's Signs
are merely inventing lies..." (Surat an-Nahl, 16:105).
Those who have some degree of belief in Allah fear the
recompense that their lies will bring them in the Hereafter and
so avoid lying. In several verses, one of which is related below,
Allah informs us that the traps of those engaged in evil plot-
ting are broken:
Shown by their arrogance in the land and evil plot-

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