Lesson 14: "O you who believe! Keep your duty to Allah and fear Him, and speak (always) the truth."
- Ramadan Lectures
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- 22.Ramadan Reflections 1443 AH
In the Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Dear noble brothers, we are discussing a new lesson of this series about the Ayaat that start with, "O you who believe…", and today's Ayah is:
(O you who believe! Keep your duty to Allah and fear Him, and speak (always) the truth. He will direct you to do righteous good deeds and will forgive you your sins. And whosoever obeys Allah and His Messenger (SAW) he has indeed achieved a great achievement (i.e. he will be saved from the Hell-fire and made to enter paradise).
"Sadida" (the word used in the Ayah in Arabic) means the truth, and the truth is unchangeable, while the falsehood, which is the opposite of the truth is evanescent. Also, the truth is purposeful, whereas the falsehood is pointless. To clarify, if you stay up at night till 3 AM doing nothing valuable, what is the result of that in the end? Will you become a doctor, a rich man, a merchant, a social reconciler, an eloquent person or an author? You will achieve none of that, because you are wasting your time being up all night.
Man swings between the unchangeable (the truth) and the evanescent (the falsehood). The opposite of the truth is everything that is false, evanescent and purposeless. So, congratulations to the one who adheres to the truth, who has unchangeable explicit goals, and whose goals are transcendental and noble.
