English - Ma'ariful Qur'an - Mufti Shafi Usmani RA - Vol - 1
Surah Al-Baqarah - 2 : Verses 8 - 20

Pages for Current Surah - Verse/s :-

- Verses 8 - 20: Translation and Commentary

- Injunctions and Related Considerations
- Removal of a Doubt
- Lying is Contemptible
- Misbehaving with Prophets is to Misbehave with Allah
- The Curse of Telling Lies -
- Who are Reformers and Mischief-Makers?

The curse of telling lies

(6) There is another subtle and very significant point here. According to these verses, the hypocrites would meet with a grievous punishment for having told lies. Now, their greatest crime was disbelief and hypocrisy in matters of faith, and they had been committing other crimes as well, like nursing envy and malice against Muslims in their hearts and actually conspiring against them. And yet here the grievous punishment has been connected with their habit of telling lies. This is an indication that basically this nefarious habit was their real crime, which gradually led them to hypocrisy and disbelief. In other words, although hypocrisy and disbelief are much greater crimes, yet they arise from the habit of telling lies. That is why the Holy Qur'an combines the sin of lying with the sin of idol worship in the same phrase:

"Guard yourselves against the filth of idols and against telling lies" (22:30)