{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw26.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw26.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw26.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nKoran. O ye that believe, fear God and be truthful! Verily God recompenseth the truthfulness of the truthful.\nTraditions. Be ever truthful, for truthfulness leads to righteousness, and righteousness leads to heaven.\nVeracity brings peace to the heart.\nNo man's religion can be right until his heart become right, nor can his heart become right until his tongue is right.\nKeep to the truth though it may harm thee, and keep away from falsehood though it may profit thee.\nA man can be perfect only when he speaks the truth and acts according to the truth.\nProverbs. Truth is the sword of God, which always cleaves when it smites.\nTruth is armed with horns.\nBy truth man is saved from evil.\nIf falsehood saves from trouble truth saves much more.\nWhen thou speakest be truthful, and when thou actest be gentle.\nAn ignorant man who is true is better than a clever man who is false.\nThere are two kinds of truthfulness, and the greatest of them is that which may do thee harm.\nIf truth and falsehood were pictured they would be represented by a terrible lion and a cunning fox.\nIt is better to die a truthful man than to live the life of a liar.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Truthfulness","type":"page"}