الصِّدق

TRUTHFULNESS

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2– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Truthfulness is the congruity of logic with divine convention, whereas lying removes logic from divine convention.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, nos. 1552-1553]

3– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Truthfulness is the tongue of the Real.’
[Ibid. no. 275]

4– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Truthfulness saves you even though you fear it whereas lying ruins you even though you feel safe from it.’
[Ibid. nos. 1118-1119]

5– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Truthfulness is the goodness of everything whereas lying corrupts everything.’
[Ibid. nos. 1115-1116]

6– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Truthfulness is a trust whereas lying is deception.’
[Ibid. no. 15]

7– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The worth of a man is measured by the extent of his ambition, and his truthfulness is measured by his integrity.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Saying 47]

8– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Faith is to prefer to tell the truth, even if it be to your detriment, over lying even though it be to your benefit.’
[Ibid. Saying 458]

9– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Learn to tell the truth before you learn to speak.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 104, no. 4]

10– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Truthfulness is an honour.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 78, p. 269, no. 109]

11– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘He whose tongue tells the truth is pure of action.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 104, no. 3]

12– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The truthful one is at the height of salvation and dignity, whereas the liar is on the brink of ignominy and degradation.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 86]

13– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Do not be deceived by their
[lengthy] prayer or their
[Abundant] fasting, for verily it may be that a man becomes so attached to his prayer and his fasting that were he to stop doing them, he would be greatly disturbed. Rather test these people through the truth in their speech and their prompt return of goods entrusted in their care.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 104, no. 4]

14– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Better than the truth itself is the one who tells it, and better than the good deed itself is the one who performs it.’
[Amali al-Tusi, p. 223, no. 385]

15– Imam Ali (AS), when he was asked about the most truthful saying, replied, ‘The testimony that there is no god but Allah.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 77, p378, no. 1]

16– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The most truthful of sayings is that which the tongue of the present utters.’
[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 3302]