Falsehood
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
falsehood · lying · untruth · الباطل
spoken of as
1 expressionUntruth“falsehood”1 mention
Nāradasmṛti (Sanskrit)
He slays the born and the unborn by speaking untruth for the sake of gold.
in the texts
Adab al-wazīr
Bāṭil, falsehood, opposed to the truth and identified with jest and frivolity, refused as a duty yet conceded in small measure as rest.
So the difference between seriousness and jest came to be the difference between truth and falsehood, and the mutual repulsion of opposites bars their being joined:
Seriousness may wear out the mind of the earnest man, so that he takes relief in some jest to help him endure seriousness.
Nāradasmṛti
Falsehood in testimony, condemned as the gravest sin bringing hell and degraded rebirth.
He slays the born and the unborn by speaking untruth for the sake of gold.
They say that truth is the one and only purifier of the soul, the staircase to heaven, like a boat for the ocean.
By speaking untruth, you will fall into a most dreadful hell.