Sadullah Khan – Developing a Qur’anic Personality To be and What not to be. #13

Developing a Quranic personality

to be and what not to be. Truth

and truthfulness

is referenced directly over a 100 times in

the holy

Quran.

And it is one of the pillars on

which the moral survival of the world depends.

In fact,

Allah says,

Allah created the heavens and the earth with

truth.

And truthfulness is among the basis

of praiseworthy

characters

characteristics.

And any

of the characteristics of human beings that are

considered noble,

truth and truthfulness

is amongst the most noble of all of

them. And therefore,

even all the prophet

alaihi wasallam, our prophet and all the other

prophets, salawatullah,

we found that

they had an essential feature of themselves which

was honesty and truthfulness.

They were never accused

of being liars.

People may have differed with the message, opposed

the message

And therefore you find

Rasool Allahu alaihi wa sallam 2 points.

Even in his youth before he received revelation,

he was he was called the people called

him a sadeq nalamin, the truthful and the

trustworthy. It was before receiving revelation.

And much later in life

when Muslim envoys went to different parts of

the world, when they went to Heraclius, the

Roman King,

and they gave him the message of Islam

and they told him they were envoys of

prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. One of

the questions according to the Qasir that he

asked the Muslim envoy.

He

asked,

did you ever accuse him of dishonesty or

of lying about things

before he claimed to receive revelation?

Before he said what he said? And the

envoy said, never accused him of lying.

So he said,

If he did not lie about people, regarding

people, he will not lie about God.

Even a young Muslim

looking at the truthfulness

of the message he received

knows the fact that

truthfulness and honesty

is a feature and characteristic of reliable people.

So though a person of integrity may have

many characteristics

by which he or she could be identified,

among the most outstanding one

is honesty and

lesson for us

lesson for us

2 young Jewish men

2 young Jewish men were traveling on foot

in the olden days And as they were

going, they got lost on the way. And

eventually, in the heat of the sun,

they found that they don't know which way

they're going. And they tried this way and

that way. And then eventually as they walked,

they saw a minaret.

And they thought there must be a village

there.

So the 2 Jewish men said, look, let's

go to there. There's a village there, but

there's a mosque there also. And it's Ramadan,

so somebody should be in the mosque. These

Muslims, they fast in Ramadan. So somebody will

be in the mosque doing some form of

prayer. Let's go there. But the one told

the other,

when you go to the mosque, tell them

we are Muslim. Don't say we are Jews.

So the other one said,

no. We can't why must we lie? Tell

them the truth. We are lost. We are

Jewish. We're going somewhere. Tell them the truth.

So they went to the masjid.

They They came there and the imam they

found the imam there, an elder imam, and

they explained to the imam the situation.

And, the one said my name is Abdullah

and I'm Muslim.

I'm Abdullah and I'm Muslim.

And the other one said, well, I'm Khaim

and I'm Jewish.

So the imam said, don't worry. We know

you lost. We'll sort you out. Don't worry.

We'll help you. We'll do whatever we can

to help you. And he told them, I

think, do me a favor. Please get some

nice cold water, some nice milk, and get

some nice fresh fruit for kaiyim.

So the other guy said, what about me?

So the imam said, in 3 hours time

is iftar, then you all Muslims will break

fast.

Honesty is indeed the best policy. Be careful.

Honesty and truthfulness

should be the core of a believer's

character.

And speaking the truth is not a favor.

Some people think being truthful is like, masha'Allah.

No.

Speaking the truth should be should not be

seen as separate

component of a Muslim character. You don't say

a person, he makes salah and mashallah, he

made wudu also before that. It's a condition

for you to make salah to a wudu.

There's no in

that. So similarly here, part of the characteristic

of a truthful person of a believer is

that he or she is by nature, by

virtue of being a Muslim, of taking shahada

that they are of those who are truthful.

And in fact, it is the doorway to

righteousness.

Truthfulness

is one of the most beautiful traits.

Traits of the prophets, all the prophets.

And the opposite of truthfulness,

deliberate lying and deceiving is among the most

negative traits. And that's why the Rasool in

a very famous hadith, salallahu alayhi wasalam, documented

the Sahih of Imam Muslim,

warned us about one thing and advised us

and recommended us one thing.

He

said, I warn you, be careful

of lying or of telling lies

because

lying leads to wrongfulness,

and wrongfulness

leads to the fire.

It's obligatory upon you

to be truthful and to be honest. For

truthfulness leads towards righteousness.

And righteousness leads to paradise.

Let us be truthful

so that our truthfulness, Insha'Allah,

can pave the way for us to paradise.