WE ARE ALL LIARS! We Lie To God; To Others; And To Ourselves.

We Are All Liars!

We Lie To God, To Others

And To Ourselves

If We Don’t Repent,

We’ll Land In Hell

(M. Javed Naseem)

  

“Woe unto each sinful liar!”

(al-Quran 45:7)

Lying is deceiving and it is not allowed in Islam. In some Prophetic narrations (Ahadith) it has been declared that there are three signs of a hypocrite (a Munafiq) and Lying is the first one. As a matter of fact lying is the mother of all evils. Once you to tell a lie, you have to constantly lie to cover up the first lie. And the chain never stops, except that we keep adding more and more lies to the stock and eventually fail to cover them all sooner or later. Then we are exposed and lost our trust in the eyes of others; and with that trust goes our respect and honor too.

And there is more to it! Allah is not pleased with such behavior and if we don’t repent and rectify the situation immediately, we are classified in the records of angels as ‘liars’ and we lose Allah’s blessings. As habitual liars, we start losing all spiritual good and with that Allah’s favors too. Allah has warned such people in the Quran:

“In their hearts is a disease, and

Allah increases their disease.

A painful doom is theirs

because they lie.”

(al-Quran 2:10)

The lies will bring upon us a painful doom and the wrath of Allah, not only in this world but also in the Hereafter. If we die without repenting and asking Allah for His forgiveness we’ll be destined to Hell, as ‘disobedient’ to Allah and as ‘friends’ or ‘brothers’ of the Devil. This is something grave.

The lies are so common in our everyday life that we don’t even feel that we are lying. We consider it normal. We also consider ‘small’ lies ‘no’ lies. For example, we are home and somebody knocks at the door or rings the door bell, or somebody calls on the phone, we tell our wives or children to tell the visitor (or caller) that we are not home. We are lying and we force our families to lie too.

Many times we know the truth about somebody or something but when somebody asks us about that, we say that we don’t know because we don’t want to embarrass somebody (our friends or family members). We are building a fake wall of protection around them and us which is going to crumble one day.

Then there is a group, actually a religious sect, that believes that lying with good intention is allowed and it does not fall into the category of lies. Wrong! A lie is a lie, no matter how small or how big, how noble or how evil. There are many fake Ahadith (Prophet’s sayings) that fall into this category. Allah will definitely punish those who fabricated Ahadith (even for a good purpose). When you attribute something to the Prophet that he never said or did, you are lying. And that’s a big punishable sin. You first punishment right in this world is that Allah withdraws His ‘Guidance’ (Hidayah) from you and you are left in the darkness of ignorance.

“Lo! Allah guides not him

who is a liar, an ingrate.”

(al-Quran 39:3)

We disobey Allah and we think it is not grave, it is normal lifestyle. We defy Allah’s commands and think that it is nothing serious as everybody does it. That’s not the justification. Allah is the Supreme Creator and we are the Creation. He has rights over us.

We lie to Allah, the Almighty, too and we boldly do that during prayers. When we start prayer (Salaat), in every Rakaat (unit) we recite Surah al-Fatiha (the first chapter of the Quran. In the 5^th verse of this Surah (chapter), we pronounce that: (O Allah!) We worship you alone and seek help from you only. Here’s the translation of verses 5 to 7:

“You (alone) do we worship, and You (alone)

we ask for help. Show us the straight path,

the path of those whom You have favored;

not the (path) of those who earn Your anger,

nor of those who go astray.”

(al-Quran 1:5-7)

We keep lying to ourselves and believe that we are better than other 'People of the Book' (Jews and Christians). That's like living in a fool's paradise. The Bible says:

This is the height of hypocrisy (Munafiqat) that we say something which we don’t mean actually! Worshipping Allah alone and seeking only His help is contradicted by our actions when we see the crowds on the shrines, tombs, graves and mazars of the saints and priests. People go to those places and ask those dead saints and priests to help us and grant our wishes; get us a new job, win us a lottery, get us a male child, heal us from diseases, etc., etc. There are endless desires/wishes and so are the tombs/mazars/graves of the dead saints and priests. When we say something and in practice we do something else, it constitutes a lie, hypocrisy (Munafiqat). And that’s a punishable sin.

“Lo! Allah guides not one

who is a prodigal, a liar.”

(al-Quran 40:28)

In Islam, this is called ‘shirk’ – making partners with Allah. According to the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.), on the Day of Judgment, the Merciful Allah might forgive all sins except ‘shirk’. This is the worst kind of sin that we can have on our record of deeds. An early repentance can get us off the hook.

Under the Law of Moses (Torah) and the Gospel of Jesus (Bible), lying is an abominable sin and merits punishment. A believer should not take it lightly. The Bible says: 

On the Day of Judgment, those dead (or living) saints, preachers, priests, Sai-Babas or Peers, etc., won’t be able to help you at all. They would all be worried about their own fate (Heaven or Hell). Nobody would care about you on that day and nobody would take responsibility for your losses. You alone will have to carry your own burden! Allah says:

“Whoever receives guidance, receives it for

his own benefit; whoever goes astray, does so

to his own loss. No bearer of burdens can bear

the burden of another; nor would We visit with

Our Wrath until We had sent an messenger

(to give warning).”

(al-Quran 17:15)

God sent to the mankind, from time to time, His Prophets and Messengers to guide or lead people to the right path. But after the death of those Prophets/Messengers, people went astray again, forgetting all about their teachings and God’s warnings. Eventually, God punished those nations and destroyed their towns, thus making them a ‘lesson’ for other nations. We make our own choices and we are responsible for them. And we will be questioned about them. We are responsible for our own fate!

“Every man's fate We have fastened on his

own neck. On the Day of Judgment, We shall

bring out for him a scroll (record), which he

will see spread open. (It will be said to him:)

Read your (own) record! Sufficient is your

soul this day to be a witness against you."

(al-Quran 17:13-14)

The only solution to all our problems is the Guidance from Allah, that came to us through His Prophets or Messengers and the Holy Books. If we don’t revert to Allah, we are lost. There is no one else to guide us and get us through this mess. Here’s the prescription:

“O believers! Seek (Allah’s) help with

Patient perseverance and prayer; for Allah

is with those who patiently persevere!”

(al-Quran 2:153)

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