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Editorial
Truthfulness is the greatest and most important of all human virtues.
What means “Truthfulness”?
Truthfulness means to speak the truth habitally.A truthful man will never tell lie,he always says what he means,and acts as he says,and he does’nt tell a lie in jest.
Truthfulness is a very important to build up the character of a man,and a man who’s characters not good is’nt loved by anybody.So we should always speak the truth.
Allah the almighty (جل شانہ) says in the holy Qur’an
واجتنبوا قول الزور Avoid the false talk. [Al-Hajj,30]
The Qur’an also states
ولاتقف مالیس لک بھ علم” Don’t follow that of which you have no knowledge. [Al-Isra,36]
And the messenger (prophet)of Allah Hazrat Mohammadﷺ said
ان الصدق یھدی الیٰ البر وان البر یھدی الیٰ الجنۃ وان الرجل لیصدق حتیٰ یکون عند اللہ صدیقاً وان الکذب یھدی الیٰ الفجور وان الفجور یھدی الیٰ النار وان الرجل لیکذب حتیٰ یکتب عند اللہ کذابا
“Adhere firmly to truthfulness for truthfulness surely leads to righteousness and righteousness leads to Paradise, and a man is recorded with Allah as a sincere one as long as he is truthful,However,lying leads to immorality and immorality leads to the Hell-Fire,and a man is recorded with Allah as a liar as long as he lies.”1
Our society can’t exist if we all be liers,Because,a truthful man keeps his word so pepole depend upon what he says. They give him responsible work.And a truthful man has strength of mind and always success in his business..He never ready to suffer by speaking the truth.Thereupon,he may be poor but he lives a peaceful and happy life,Because,he knows that he is pure mind and he is right.Infact the word of truthful man has great value,sometimes his words carry more weight than documents.A truthful man has a clear conscience and does’nt fear anybody.Even his enemies respect him,and this respect is more important than any costly jewel. We all know the story of Hazrat Ghuas-e-Aazam Abdul Qadir Jilani (رضی اللہ عنہ) that his truthfulness made the robbers disciplies.
A truthfulness is a great virtue and a great voice,and on the contrary the lier is hated by all pepole and nobody belives him.He may gain success for a short time but soon he is fall and nobody helps him and nobody gives him any responsible work.And he can’t shine in any business.Pepole will not deal with him anymore.And he never lead a peaceful life. We all knows the story of the shepherd boy.He always telling a lie.Atlast he met his death for it’s result.
And is reported that”Once a righteous man was questioned about the number of Man’s faults. Thereupon, he answered,”Man’s faults are innumerable but I know 8000 faults.However,man can conceal these numerous faultsthrough keeping silent with the exception of good speak.”2
Atleast truthfulness is a very important thing to build up our society,So we should always speak the truth and we also should avoid to tell a lie.
1:-Reported by-Imam Bukhari and Imam muslim(May Allah be pleased with them)
2:-Kitab-al-kabair,page no-109