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Library Ethics Greater Sins Chapter 19 The Seventeenth Greater Sin: Lying Falsehood in examples
Library Ethics Greater Sins Chapter 19 The Seventeenth Greater Sin: Lying Falsehood in examples
Falsehood in examples
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Falsehood in examples
Examples are used to explain, understand and remember some intellectual concepts. Sometimes, animals are shown as conversing among themselves. (For example, there is a poem by Allamah Iqbal where a squirrel advises the mountain to give up pride). Now everyone knows that such things are not possible so there is no risk of anyone having a misunderstanding. On the other hand they serve a useful purpose. Hence such examples are permitted. We find such types of examples in the narrations of Ahl ul-Bayt (a.s.).
Moreover there are also narrations that prove the permissibility of explaining facts and truthful concepts through the media of stories and anecdotes.
