Principles of Islam
51. Speaking the Truth
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51. SPEAKING THE TRUTH
A believer in God is also necessarily a truth-loving
person. He always speaks the truth. In all matters
he says just what is in accordance with reality. A
true believer cannot afford to tell lies, or hide facts.
What does it mean to speak the truth? It is to have
no contradiction between man’s knowledge and the
words that he utters and for that matter; whatever
he says should be what has come to his knowledge.
Falsehood, by contrast, is the utterance of
statements, which do not tally with knowledge.
Truth is the highest virtue of a believer’s character.
A believer is a man of principle. And for such a
person telling the truth is paramount. For him no
other behaviour is possible, for he finds it
impossible to deny the truth.
The world of God is based wholly on truth. Here
everything expresses itself in its real form. The sun,
the moon, rivers, mountains, stars and planets are
all based on truth. They appear just as they really
are. In this unfathomably vast universe of God
