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LYING
BRINGS SHAME
Once, the
king of Azerbaijan and ‘Iraq, Sultan Ya’qoob sent a request to the king
of Khorasan and Zablistan, Sultan Hussein Mirza to send him a book
called Kulliyyate Jame’.
Sultan
Hussein Mirza ordered his envoy Ameer Hussein Abirawi to collect the
book from his library and proceed to ‘Iraq to deliver it to Sultan
Ya’qoob. However, in haste, the envoy packed a different book called
Futoohaate Makki and departed from Khorasan.
When he
arrived in ‘Iraq, he found the king extremely hospitable. In fact he
asked the envoy, “You must have been very bored during the long
journey?” But the envoy replied, “Not at all your Majesty! The
Sultan has sent for you Kulliyyate Jame’. So whenever we halted
at any place, I read some portions from it and this way I managed to
occupy myself”.
The king
was highly impressed. It was heartening for him to know that the envoy
had actually read the book which he had always longed to read. When he
asked the envoy to hand over the book to him, to his embarrassment, it
was Futoohaate Makki and not Kulliyyate Jame’
which the envoy had claimed to have read. Disgusted with the lie,
the king said to the envoy, “Aren’t you ashamed of uttering such a
lie!”
The envoy
says, “I left the court ashamed and returned home without a reply to
my Sultan’s letter. I did not even halt or rest during the return
journey to Khorasan. I felt death would have been better for me than
uttering such a lie”.
(Lessons
from Life)
The Holy
Prophet (saww) has said, “Verily lying
blackens the face”.
(Al-Tagheeb wal Tarheeb)
He (saww)
has also said, “A liar does not lie except
due to the inferiority complex that he finds in himself”. (Kanzul-‘Ummaal)
Imam Ali
bin Abi Talib (a.s.) has said, “The
consequence of lying is humiliation in this world and in the
Hereafter”. (Ghurar al-Hikam)
Mulla
Mujaheedali Sheriff
mulla@almahdi.org.uk |