Ninth droplet

You know, if you have some understanding of man's essential nature or character, that it is not easy for a sensible man, however infamous he is, to tell a lie that will embarrass him when it is found out. Even if it concerns an insignificant claim or matter and is told in tne presence of a small group, still it is not easy. If he tells such a lie comfortably without blushing or feeling shame, this points to his being a lying trickster, and his opponents will publicize this trait of his. This being so, how can it be possible for one—especially if he is famed for his trustworthiness and truthfulness—who carries the greatest responsibility, to tell a lie concerning the most important and greatest mission before the whole of mankind until the Last Day? How could he lie before people who feel a strong antagonism towards him and are impatiently on the look-out for a lie to fall from his lips?
We see that noble being giving utterance to whatever he had to say without fear of his opponents and without any hesitation or anxiety, with absolute sincerity and enthusiasm, and in a way to vex and discomfit their reason, arguments and attitudes. Is it then possible for such a one to have lied and deceived people concerning his mission? No! [Wliattver he says] is but a revelation revealed.¹
Truth is absolutely free and independent of deception and has no need of it, and the eye able to see truth cannot be deceived. Therefore, the path of that noble being is true and therefore he is wholly free of deception of others, just as his truth-perceiving eyes were wholly free of being deceived by illusions.


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1.al-Najm, 53.4