TRUTH

Introduction.    

Truth means a reality that does not have discrepancies in any shape. Truth is to remain straightforward in all situations whether it is favourable or unfavourable for you and others. Truth is a reality like nature as the purity of nature cannot be changed, and likewise, truth is also unchangeable. Sometimes, truth seems to be difficult and degraded but results always come good. So in all walks of life, we should speak the truth. It is the main key to your progress in all fields of life. Some benefits of this good act receive at the spot time and some later. We should believe, that after this, the best rewards will be given to the true speaker on the resurrection day by Allah.  Allah says in Holy Quran. ‘This is the Day when the truthful will benefit from their truthfulness.’ For them are gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide forever, Allah being pleased with them, and they with Him. That is the great attainment,” (Al-Ma’idah: 119). https://www.quranexplorer.com/blog/education-in-the-light-of-sunnah-and-qura'an/speaking_truth_in_islam.   The benefits of the truth are countless. However, some benefits are as under:-

• Respect and Trust.    Every person has their different desires but one desire has everyone that, all people give him respect and trust him. If you want to get this desire, so always speak the truth. The people will automatically start to give you respect, and they will also respectfully trust you. When people give respect to a man and also trust in him, he feels happiness and pleasure. So then his morale becomes boosted, and he does good deeds which are held in his domain. He becomes more careful than before to keep away himself from the irresponsible attitude towards his duties. His family members, friends and collogue feel proud of his respect, and they also try to follow him. Respect builds trust. Trust and respect make strong of your relationships. Strong relationships are your great strength to achieve the goal which you cannot achieve alone.      

• Truth provides Justice.   Justice plays an important role in maintaining a peaceful environment, and the people of any country or state can only make progress in a peaceful environment. Justice provides all types of security to humans and even animals. The judicial department of any state or country is responsible for the provision of justice. To ensure the timely provision of justice, witnesses and, pieces of evidence should have to be true in all respect. Justice improves the efficiency and image of any society. We should have righteousness for justice. Standard of social justice promotes the image of a person, family, society, country and state because social justice provides equality to the people to access Justice, welfare, ( necessities of life) education, privileges, health and wealth. Allah loves the equitable.       

• Truth Leads to the Right Path.    Truthfulness is that great power, which keeps us away from the illegal and wrong way, and leads us to the right path. The right path means to follow the rules and regulations and do good deeds. Your good deeds are that good deeds if your deeds have beneficial to others also. As a human, if you want to achieve the real mission of your life, the right path would have to be chosen for you. If we read about the practical life of our great leaders, history tells us, that they were always speaking the truth. They did not like the liar. Success comes through the truth.       

• Ethics and Manners.      Quality of truth improves the quality of ethics and good manners of a human. A true person can do a good debate on any issue to ascertain the factual position of the case than a liar. It has been observed if verbal or written statements or some other materials have been provided by a true man as evidence, people believe him and do not demand counter checks except in serious matters. Being a true man, people acknowledge his good ethics and manners.

• Internal Satisfaction.     When a person speaks the truth, he feels internal satisfaction because he realizes that he is doing well. He does not face the problems to tell the reality of any case. Naturally, the reality of anything becomes safe in the mind of a true man. When a person wants to tell and explains the facts of any matter, the saved movie runs in front of his eyes, so he tells and explains it with complete satisfaction. While a liar man makes a fabricated story, he often faces problems to explain it. If the clarification is asked again from him, he will not repeat it with the same words, as he had already told.

• Truth Saves From Sins.  A Lie is misleading to yourself and others’ act under which a man tries to conceal the facts against nature. A lie is a sin and sins lead to hell. Truth speaking habit is a righteous act and it has a good impact on others while lying has a bad impact on others. Therefore, truth saves us from sins and leads us to Paradise.

• Self Improvements.  Truth makes you a mature, well-disciplined, dedicated and responsible person in society. If you want self-improvement, you would have to be adopted the habit of true speaking. All good acts are enclosed with the truth therefore self-improve is impossible without it. A true man always tries to do something good for himself and his society. 

• Good Attitude.     Truth promotes your good attitude because true talk has a meaningful purpose. Everyone can get benefit from your truth. The lie is a bad habit; it is nothing something else except wasting time and cheating yourself. A true speaking man does not violate the rules and regulations at any cost therefore his attitude is appreciated at all levels.

Consequences.    

The following consequences have been ascertained:-

• True is like by all. We should speak the truth in our routine conversation, and this habit should be promoted in society to deal with all matters in good manners. 

• Truth always produces fruitful results.

• Truth speaking is the quality of great people. No other quality can take the place of this quality.

• All messengers of Allah were true, and they have given the message of true speaking to the people.

• True speaking is the best solution to problems and mistakes.

• Truth is forever, but a lie is for the short time.

• Truth is like that as human beings, we know, we will die, but we do not know the exact time and location of death.