Lying is one of the greatest sins in Islam. Text and the corpus juris are quite explicit about this. Evils of lying are more dreadful than the evils of adultery. In one of the Ahadith lying is equated with committing adultery with one’s own mother.
“Only they forge the lie who do not believe in Allah’s communications, and these are the liars.” (Q,16:105)
“Surely Allah does not guide him aright who is a liar, ungrateful.” (Q, 39:3)
A liar also invokes the curse of Allah (SWT)
“… and pray for the curse of Allah on the liars.” (Q, 3:61)
“… the curse of Allah be on him if he is one of the liars.” (Q, 24:8)
Hadith: “When a believer speaks a lie, he becomes prone to committing every other sin; and when this happens, he commits kufr (disbelief) which then makes him
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