Presentation

The Extract of a Sermon of Hazrat Fatima (a.s.) the Princess of Islam

 Preface

Question 1: Do we have the right to ask about the Logic behind Islamic Laws?

Question 2: How to ponder on the Philosophy of Islamic Laws?

Question 3: Why Should We Do Taqlid (Follow A Mujtahid) In Religious Problems?

Question 4: Why Should We Worship Allah? What Is The Philosophy of Prayers, Fasting And Hajj?

Question 5: Why Should We Do Taqlid of The Most Learned Scholar?

Question 6: Why Pray In Arabic?

Question 7: Why To Face The Qibla In Prayers?

Question 8: Why Do We Pray Five Prayers In Three Times?

Question 9: How Does Prayers Keep a Person Away From Sin?

Question 10: What is The Purpose of Prayers of Ayaat?

Question 11: Why Should Women Cover Themselves In Prayers?

Question 12: Why Are Alcoholic Drinks Impure?

Question 13: What Is The Difference Between Perspiration And Urine?

Question 14: What Is The Philosophy of Bathing The Dead Body And Bath     For Touching The Dead Body?

Question 15: Why Illegitimate Children Are Kept Away From Some Posts?

Question 16: The Harmful Effects of Pork on the Health of a Person

Question 17: Why An Unbeliever Is Impure?

Question 18: What Is The Purpose of Jizya?

Question 19: The Dress of Ihram

Question 20: Why Is The Meat of Sacrifice Wasted?

Question 21: Why It Is Forbidden To Read The Deviated Books?

Question 22: Why The Holy Qur’an Cannot Be Given To Any Non-Muslim?

Question 23: The Reason of Strictness In Proving Certain Sins (Crimes)

Question 24: Why The Animals Should Be Slaughtered In A Particular Way?

Question 25: Circumcision

Question 26: Philosophy of Halalah

Question 27: The Psychological And Physical Dangers of Sexual Promiscuity

Question 28: Music From The Islamic Point of View

Question 29: Why Does Allah Subject People To Tests?

Question 30: How Can Tayammum be Performed in Soil Contaminated by  Germs?

Question 31: Are Other Religions Right?

Question 32: Prayer For Correct Guidance To The Right Path (Siraatul Mustaqeem)

Question 33: What Is The Purpose Of Creating The Heavens And The Earth In Six Days?

Question 34: What Is Meant By ‘Seven Heavens’?

Question 35: Where Are Two Easts And Two Wests?

Question 36: The Earth Being Spherical And The Holy Qur’an

Question 37: Rotation of  The Earth

Question 38: What Is The Exegesis of  This Verse?

Question 39: Importance of  Laylat’ul-Qadr

Question 40: How Zulqarnain Saw That The Sun Sets In Dark Water?

Question 41: Holy Qur’an And Control Over Planets

Question 42: Does This Verse Point Towards The Artificial Means of  The Present World?

Question 43: Do These Verses Support The Theory of  Evolution?

Question 44: Is This Ayat Contrary To Islam Being Universal?

Question 45: Why Allah Has Used Plural Pronouns For Himself?

Question 46: Hearing And Sight In The Holy Qur’an

Question 47: Why Would The False Gods Be Put In The Fire?

Question 48: Is It Allowed To Prostrate Before Anyone Or Anything Other Than Allah?

Question 49: What Is Meant By Tawbah an-Nasooha?

Question 50: Is This Ayat Contrary To The Issue of “Abiding Forever”?

Question 51: What is the Benefit of Uttering Allah’s Name Before Starting Anything?

Question 52: The Qur’an is safe from distortion

Question 53: The Order of Revelation of Surahs of The Holy Qur’an And The Scribes of Revelation

Question 54: Interpretation of Qur’an Based On Personal Views

Question 55: What Is The Aim of Repetitions In The Qur’an?

Question 56: Is The Prohibited Tree The Tree of Knowledge?

Question 57: Why Is There No ‘Bismillah’ In The Beginning of ‘Surah Baraat’?

Question 58: Are There More Than One Creator?

Question 59: Why is Charity Compared To An Ear Having 700 Grains?

Question 60: Son of Nuh (a.s.) In The Holy Qur’an

Question 61: Is The Following Ayat In Contravention of The Infallibility of The Holy Prophet (S)?

Question 62: What Is The Meaning of The Words: Everything Will Be Destroyed Except His Face?

Question 63: How Did Yusuf (a.s.) Allow That His Brother Should Be Falsely Implicated For Theft?

Question 64: Should We Laugh Less And Weep More?

Question 65: Would There Be Interrogation On The Day of Qiyamat?

Question 66: Does The Prophet Also Seek Counsel?

Question 67: What Are ‘Smaller’ And ‘Greater Sins’?

 Question 68: Are Greater And Smaller Relative Terms?

Question 69: How Many Greater Sins Are There?

Question 70: What Is Lying For A Hidden Wisdom?

Question 71: Is It Allowed To Give Physical Punishment For Women?

Question 72: Islamic View on Artificial Insemination

Question 73: What Is The Command Regarding Contraception?

Question 74: What Is The Legal Position Regarding Abortion of Illegitimate Fetus?

Question 75: Blood Transfusion

Question 76: Is The Sincerity of Intention Beneficial To The Deed?

Question 77: Why Do We Sometimes Recite The Afternoon Prayers Prayers At The Time of Noon Prayers Prayer?

Question 78: Does Prayer Have A Role In Acceptance of All Deeds?

Question 79: How To Pray And Fast In The Polar Regions?

Question 80: Prayer At The Earliest Hour

Question 81: Why Do We Pray Facing The Qibla?

Question 82: What Is The Decree Regarding The Game of Chess?

Question 83:  How Can Latin Speaking People Perform Prayers?

Question 84: Prostrating To The Imam’s Tomb?

Question 85: What is The Ruling about Sports like Boxing?

Question 86: Questions of An American Muslim

Question 87: What Are The Causes of Advancement of The Muslims In The Past Ages And Their Downfall In The Modern Era?

Question 88: Why The Youth of Today Avoid Religious Gatherings?

Question 89: How Can We Control The Misuse of Polygamy?

Question 90: Has Islam Prescribed The Duties of Woman?

Question 91: Is The Universe Dependent Upon Allah For Its Continued Existence?

Question 92: What Is The Islamic View Regarding The Sneeze?

Question 93: Do Dreams Have Any Truth?

Question 94: Is Khums The Recompense of Prophethood?

Question 95: Is Not Khums a Cause For Social Difference?

Question 96: Why Is There Still Ignorance Despite So Many Efforts For Popularizing Knowledge?

In this book, the authors have endeavored to reply to over a hundred
commonly asked questions about Islamic laws and practices and have also
explained the reasons being various Islamic directives.


Philosophy of Islamic Laws

Question 70: What Is Lying For A Hidden Wisdom?
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**Question:** What is the command in Islam for lying for hidden wisdom?
And did the Prophets and great leaders lie in this manner?

**Answer:** Falsehood in itself is a very evil deed. And it is the root
of most of our present difficulties and problems. Some of the sayings of
the Holy Imams (a.s.) that have reached us mention that lying is the key
to all sins.

But in spite of this in some special circumstances it is possible that
if one speaks the truth there would be a great mischief and discord. If
he does not state the truth the fire of mischief cools down.

For example when there is serious enmity between two and each of them
speaks ill of the other in his absence we are also listening and we know
that the questions we are being asked, if we give the truthful replies
of the same and reveal the ill speaking of that person the fire of
mischief and discord will flame up and it is possible that as a result
of this there is a great loss.

Then obviously in such circumstances it would be wrong to speak the
truth. And no intelligent person can say that in those conditions also
we must speak the truth. It is an understood rational law that when the
loss of something is greater than its benefit, we must refrain from it.

The Islamic rules also support this command and in such exceptional
circumstances it allows lying.

However, two important points must be kept in mind here. First of all
this topic has very exceptional aspects. And except for the above stated
conditions lying is not permitted and it must not be that some people
take the excuse of lying for hidden wisdom, without any sufficient cause
or for personal gains resort to lying and thus commit this illegal act.
And say that it was some hidden wisdom.

Secondly, Islam gives such great importance to the subject of lying that
in such a condition when it is really necessary that one could lie, it
has commanded Toriya. And this decree is well known among our
jurisprudents and scholars.

Toriya means that when circumstances demand instead of lying we say a
sentence which the listener can interpret in his way. While the aim of
the speaker is something else. For example if someone asks us that such
and such person has spoken such evil about me and we reply in the
negative while we actually imply that he has not said in those words,
even though he has said the same things in other words. Even though the
hearer may imagine that the other person has not said anything.

And if the religion leaders in needful circumstances that is for saving
life and property of people and controversies that are created between
them and for prevention of mischief and discord if they have spoken
words, which are based on lying for hidden wisdom, then certainly they
fall under the category of Toriya which cannot be considered as lying.

This point is worth remembering that in circumstances when the duty of
man is Toriya or lying for hidden wisdom, if he tells the truth, he is a
sinner. In the same way he is responsible for the mischief that is
created in this way.

Obviously there is no scope of Toriya or lying for hidden wisdom in the
explanation or interpretation of the ayats of Holy Qur’an. That is as a
rule there is no such need as for as ayats and Islamic laws are
concerned.


