Library Ethics Greater Sins Chapter 19 The Seventeenth Greater Sin: Lying Listening to a lie is HarÄm
Listening to a lie is HarÄm
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Listening to a lie is HarÄm
It must be known that just as it is HarÄm to speak falsehood, it is also HarÄm to listen to it while knowing that it is a lie. And just as it is HarÄm to read or write falsehood, it is also HarÄm to quote a lie. The Qur’an has denounced the Jews and the polytheists for spreading untrue things. It is said regarding them,
“(They are) listeners of a lie.”
(Surah al-MÄ’ida 5:42)
Shaykh SadÅ«q (r.a.) has recorded that Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (a.s.) was asked,
“Is it allowed to listen intently to a liar?”
Imam (a.s.) replied,
“One who listens intently to a speaker, worships him. If the speaker is (speaking) from Allah the listener has worshipped Allah. But if the speaker is (speaking) from Satan the listener has worshipped Satan.”
A similar kind of tradition is recorded from Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (a.s.) in the book al-KÄfi.
The Qur’an says,
“...and avoid false words.”
(Surah Hajj 22:30)
And also,
“And they who do not bear witness to what is false...”
(Surah al-FurqÄn 25:72)
These types of verses confirm the impermissibility of listening to falsehood. When a liar is speaking a lie which is a great sin, the place where he commits this sin becomes a place of divine wrath and the listener shall also be included in it.
From the aspect of Nahy Anil Munkar (Forbidding Evil) also, it is Wajib to restrain the liar from speaking falsehood.
