Why lying decreases faith and truthfulness increases it — explained for children, with what lying costs a person in this life and the next. 4.7 x 6.7 inches.
| Publisher | Dar-us-Salam Kids |
| Author | Dar-us-Salam Research Division |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Pages | 48 |
| Size | 4.7x6.7" (11.7x17cm) |
| Weight (lbs) | 0.1 |
Children are told not to lie constantly, and mostly they hear it as a rule adults enforce for their own convenience. This book gives a different reason, and it is one a child can check for himself.
Iman increases and decreases. That is the foundation the whole book rests on, and most children have never been told it.
It follows that for our faith to increase, we have to be among those who are truthful — and that whoever lies has, by that act, decreased his own faith. Lying is not a rule broken; it is something done to yourself.
The book does not soften the consequences. Allah is angry with the liar. Lying is among the characteristics of the people of the Fire and of those who lose in this life and the next. It is degrading to whoever practices it, it is the key to corruption, and it brings people's anger down on the one who does it.
For a child, that last point often lands hardest, because he can already see it happening around him.
Children roughly six to eleven — the age at which lying becomes strategic rather than imaginative, and the age at which the reason behind the prohibition starts to matter more than the prohibition.
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