ثَمَرَةُ الكِذبِ The Consequence of Lying

24ـ رسولُ اللهِ‏ِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ): إنّ الكذبَ يُسَوِّدُ الوَجهَ .

24– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Lying blackens the face.’[al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib, v. 3, p. 596, no. 28]
 

25ـ رسولُ اللهِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ): الكِذبُ يَنقُصُ الرِّزقَ .

25– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Lying decreases sustenance.’[al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib, v. 3, p. 596, no. 29]
 

26ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): ثَمَرَةُ الكذبِ المَهانَةُ في الدُّنيا والعَذابُ في الآخِرَةِ .

26– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘The consequence of lying is humiliation in this world and punishment in the Hereafter.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 4640]
 

27ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): كَثرَةُ الكذبِ تُفسِدُ الدِّينَ وتُعظِمُ الوِزرَ .

27– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Excessive lying corrupts one’s religion and increases one’s burden [of sins].’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 7123]
 

28ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): الكذبُ يُؤَدِّي إلَى النِّفاقِ.

28– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Lying leads to hypocrisy.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 1181]
 

29ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): مَن كَذَبَ أفسَدَ مُرُوَّتَهُ.

29– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Whoever lies corrupts his valour.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 1181]
 

30ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): مَن عُرِفَ بالكذبِ قَلَّتِ الثِقَةُ بهِ، مَن تَجَنَّبَ الكذبَ صُدِّقَت أقوالُهُ.

30– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Whoever is known to lie will be less trusted, and whoever refrains from lying will be trusted in what he says.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 8888, 9181]
 

31ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): يَكتَسِبُ الكاذِبُ بكِذبِهِ ثلاثا: سَخَطَ اللّه‏ِ علَيهِ، واستِهانَةَ النّاسِ بهِ، ومَقتَ الملائكةِ لَهُ.

31– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘A liar acquires three things with his lies: Allah’s discontentment with him, the people’s despising him, and the angels' hatred towards him.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 11039]
 

32ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): اعتِيادُ الكِذبِ يُورِثُ الفَقرَ .

32– Imam Ali (AS) ssaid, ‘Habitually lying brings about poverty.’[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 72, p. 261, no. 36]
 

33ـ الإمامُ الصّادقُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): لا تَكذِبْ فَيَذهَبَ بَهاؤكَ .

33– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Do not lie, lest your radiance fade away.’[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 72, p. 192, no. 8]
 

34ـ الإمامُ الصّادقُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): إنّ الرجُلَ لَيَكذِبُ الكِذبَةَ فَيُحرَمُ بها صَلاةَ الليلِ .

34– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘When a man lies, he is deprived of the Night Prayer as a result.’[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 72, p. 260, no. 29]
 

35ـ الإمامُ الصّادقُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): إنَّ مِمّا أعانَ اللّه‏ُ (بهِ) علَى الكذّابينَ النِّسيانَ.

35– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘That which Allah helps [expose] the liars with is their own forgetfulness.’[meaning that forgetfulness becomes a way of exposing them, whereby they may lie about something and forget what it is they had said, and then say something contrary to what they had first said (as quoted from the footnote of the source reference)] [al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 341, no. 15]