Lying
idea · 4 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages
lying · الكذب · al-kadhib · a liar · be truthful · false · jest · kadhib · politics permits lying · the liar
in the texts
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
Falsehood in speech, examined as a beneficial act that is still not true, and as the collective impossibility that grounds the authority of widely transmitted report.
For lying to children may benefit them in restraining them from what harms them, although it is false;
And as if a Scripturary were to fall captive into the hands of Magians and claim that he was a Magian and escape by his lie, we do not say that lying is beneficial.
Only, the intellect needs, in assenting to that, the repetition of observation and the widely transmitted report (*al-khabar al-mutawātir*), which is a report about a sensible matter transmitted from a people so many in number that the intellect does not allow their agreeing upon a lie.
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
Kidhb and its opposite ṣidq, treated as a question of credit as much as of morals.
( the counsel (waṣīyah) of the Persians ) Be truthful, that you may be trusted in what you say;
And beware of lying, for it comes of nothing but contemptibleness of soul, flimsiness of judgment, and ignorance of where its harm ends.
the cause of trade is truthfulness;
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
Falsehood, analysed as always traceable to ignorance or to need, with even jesting falsehood explained as the repelling of the burden of tedium.
the liar lies only when he does not know what he reports, or knows it and need carries him to conceal the truth.
Adab al-wazīr
Kadhib, lying, analysed as a product of ignorance, a compound of falsity and delusion whose profit turns to harm, and condemned by prophetic, caliphal and Solomonic authority.
And as seriousness and jest repel one another, so truthfulness (ṣidq) and lying (kadhib) repel one another: