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You may imagine that you supplicate to God while you are supplicating to someone else. You may
think you are advising people while you intend your own interests. You may reproach yourself
while you are actually praising.”[3]
This saying indicates all of the incentives and causes of deceit. The Imam warned against all sides
of conceit and called to purify the mentalities against its deviation and sins.
[1] Refer to Jamiussaadat: 3/3‐4.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid.
Protection against conceit:
The eradication of fondness of lusts and fancies is the best protective way against conceit. It is
essential to cognize that we will leave this world to the world of the right. Looking upon these
facts may take back to the straight path.
MENDACITY
Mendacity is the origin of every vice and the source of every defect. It is a hateful quality. The
honorable and the virtuous are remote from such an ill manner that Islam has opposed.
Censure of mendacity:
Islam has warned against this ill characteristic. God says:
Only they forge the lie who do not believe in Allah’s communications, and they are the liars.
So, He made hypocrisy to follow as a consequence into their hearts till the day when they shall
meet Him because they failed to perform towards Allah what they had promised with Him and
because they told lies.
The Prophet (s) said, “Beware of fabricating. It leads to licentiousness, which leads to the hell‐
fire.”[1] “May I inform you of the grandest sin? It is polytheism and impiety to parents and telling
lies.[2]
Imam Ali (a) said, “The servants –of God‐ will not find the good taste of faithfulness before they
quit intentional and unintentional fabrication.”
Imam Ali bin al‐Hussein (a) said, “Beware of insignificant, influential, unintentional, and
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