Many advises are given by many prophets, found in books of many religions to remain loyal to truth only.
Is it possible to do so in every moment of life?
Or we are just some hypocrites in true sense?
I think it is the general problem of the "white lie".
No, practically it is not possible in today's world to remain loyal to only truth in every second of life.
It is very simple and depending on the inner orientation. The orientation is the first step and determinates every step behind. Love or Fear! Orientated to love we expand and open, than we become knowledge (truth). Orientated to fear we close us and ignore knowledge (truth)...
Standing with truth is very well but due to different circumstances it look like difficult and hard
No it is not possible to say truth all the time. Personal matters can't be disclosed to others. But social responsibilities need to clarify the truth to the concerned persons.
Truth is absolute. Lies are not. Truth leads to truth. The only way for lies is truth. Whatever is its nature, truth can never resist in from of truth.
Even if one is a strong believer, loyalty to truth are really important at the critical moments of life challenges. One shouldn't shoot a bee flying around.
Lies can never resist in front of truth.
There is another problem. We often confuse between fact and truth. If truth is the absolute, the abstract, fact is the concrete, the palpable.
Yes, definitely.But it depends on how you are defining "TRUTH". If you think that you need to follow a temporary path of untruth for the better cause of ultimate truth (may be in near future), you can sincerely do that.
Truth will remain as truth at last. Truth will win. Truth is omnipresent. Truth can never be destructed.......because truth is LIFE..
I would say not. The question is how we define truth. Ought not I have the duty to lie, if by telling the truth I put in danger the life of other people, for instance? There can be situations in life in which to tell the truth would be immoral, and to lie moral.
Having lied once, who will believe you? (74th aphorism from The collection of thoughts and aphorisms "The fruits of meditation" (1854) by Kozma Prutkov).
On the other hand, you should expect that in the case of your "telling the truth always" you will not have friends.
Gianluigi Segalerba
You have raised a very difficult question: is it possible to "a lie for salvation". I subdivide lies into several levels: blatant lies, skillful lies (when a false conclusion is drawn from the correct facts), habitual lie, uncritical repetition of someone else's lies, partial lies, not telling the truth, not telling the whole truth, "a lie for salvation", etc. They often talk about this kind of lie in the case of hopeless patients. Nevertheless, the tendency of recent years (at least in Russia) to inform the patient of his diagnosis without lying - only in this case it is possible to obtain an active participation in the treatment from him (sometimes it works). If a person use to "lying for salvation", he considers a object person (even if he is in a hopeless situation) to be a meaningless creature that can be manipulated by assuming the powers of a higher being. This is at least immoral. Sometimes it's better to keep quiet than to lie.
I think to remain loyal to only TRUTH in every second of life is near to impossible.
It’s easier to say the truth than lying. Have you ever told a lie and then forgotten the details about it? Sure, you may have been able to ad lib and thus save your butt for the time being, but lies tend to spiral outwards and have to be maintained with an even larger web of lies. These are incredibly tiring to maintain, and unless you want to carry a notebook with you in which you’ve written down the different fibs associated with the original lie, you’ll have a hard time keeping track of it all. https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/4-reasons-why-you-should-always-honest.html
If you stick with the truth, it doesn’t matter how often you’re asked about the subject—you’ll always respond the same way, because you’re being honest about what really happened. https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/4-reasons-why-you-should-always-honest.html
The Worst Truth is Better Than the Best Lie. No matter how badly you think someone will react when you tell them something, you can rest assured that they will be a thousand times more upset if (or rather, when) they find out that you’d lied to them. Not only that, but sometimes the lie can cause much more dismay than honesty, like telling kids that their grandmother “went to sleep” instead of letting them know that she had died. If they’re young, they’ll end up terrified of going to bed for fear that they’ll never wake up again, and if they’re older, they’ll be furious with you for being patronising towards them. https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/4-reasons-why-you-should-always-honest.html
The problem is the contest. If telling a truth I put in danger lives of other people, I ought to lie. If I know, for instance, the hiding place of a person who is searched for by a murderer, and I were asked by the murderer where the person is hiding himself, ought I to tell the truth? In my opinion, not. I ought to lie. in this case Morally, I ought to lie. If I told the truth in this case and in all cases like this, I would act immorally, in my opinion. Instances of this kind can be infinite numerically. Unfortunately, the principle that I always ought to tell the truth does not function when I apply the principle to the concrete cases of life. This is at least my opinion.
It's a little easier with old people - rarely who in 75 or 85 years old are sure that he will live forever. The problem with raising children. Can we lie to them? Of course, at an early age, we do not need to tell them the whole truth, but where is the border between "light version" and a lie? As a result, we can see same time 10-year-old cynics and 17-year-old fine-minded idiots, the degree of children's awareness of the realities of life can vary depending on the pedagogical abilities of their parents. The funniest thing is when they receive information "on the side" and are surprised how their parents, at a very old age (and 30-40 years seem to be a very old age to a teenager) do not know elementary things. It is still better for children to receive information from their parents, and not on the street. And lie is a bad assistant here.
مستحيل ويعود لاساب كثيرة ويطول شرحها ولكن الاقتراب والتمسك بالحقيقة واجب
The truth is a hard journey, risking unpopularity, causing offence. But no one owns the truth. It is multilevelled, not a single storey.
Yes, the very basic thing is to be loyal to the truth one has found. One cannot be loyal and not be truthful in this life
Loyalty is holding allegiance to a sovereign or leader or idea. This can and has been pitched against truth - blind belief. But, I would argue, there is no absolute truth of which we can be certain. We might achieve a working understanding or work towards one but it will always be brought into question. To act ethically requires constant vigilance and revision. All this before we examine the cultural and social construction of our knowledges, wherever we find ourselves on the planet. Many religions, and the sciences, for example claim that they are the holders of truth, and all have multitudes of believers, and yet they have differing ideas on what the truth is and where it is to be found. Reducing everything to one truth, a belief, is fraught with danger, especially when contesting beliefs clash. Fundamentalism. The world is complex and requires patience and listening, and respecting others we do not understand.
Every single second of time of a true follower of Mohammad (PBUH) passes as a loyal to TRUTH (ALLAH).
Regards
Ijaz
Dear Dr. Harry Freemantle ,
I agree with your comments.. 'We might achieve a working understanding or work towards one but it will always be brought into question. To act ethically requires constant vigilance and revision' ... loyalty to any blind faith/ trust without raising any question is against science, and perhaps against truth.
But then again the same question arise - are we loyal to the newly felt truth? or we will behave just as a hypocrite?
Expectation makes life possible. Living is expecting to get something. it does not mean necessarily that you get, but still hoping to get it makes life meaningful. The Absolute Truth is beyond our reach. We never get it, yet, it makes us life and searching for. In other words, imperfection is benediction to humanity. Perfection for human means annihilation, nothingness, a shot of impossibility: S'accomplir c'est s’anéantir." The only perfect in this world is God: He is the cause without cause for all the causes.
The Truth could mean many aspects of our behavior. It may be speaking a truth without a lie, and it may be in an act representing the truth or in defense of the truth. In our daily lives, we are required to speak the truth, stand up for the truth, and work to establish the truth. In all these aspects, we have to make more and more efforts to reach the best possible level of our behavior. It takes a lot of effort, strength of character and loyalty to our fundamentals and beliefs.
We are called to seek the Truth and to follow it as much as we can with perseverance as long as we are alive. So we will be in perpetual struggle with ourselves to achieve the high levels of truth in our behavior whether it is words or deeds.
We must always strive for the best in our behavior towards others in the path of righteousness and to go to the best in our relationship with our Creator (The Source of Truth) .
The Holy Quran says in Sura 18 ("the Cave" or "El Kahf", verses 23 and 24): "And do not say about anything: Surely I will do it tomorrow “without adding” Unless Allah (GOD) pleases; and remember your Lord when you forget and say: May be my Lord will guide me to a nearer course to the right than this".
Action our TRUTH is helping us to move toward the successful truthful life of our planning phase however in practical move I have also express my opinion some years back which I submit herewith for your perusal
Our mind all the time works for the action of our life & we carry out the same according to our chosen path. As human beings for our selfish end we carry out certain action for which we cannot place our seal on honest stamp . If this be a case we have not follow the road to the ''TRUTH''.
For understanding & accepting the road of Truth .We have to be careful & conscious with our mind for selecting a chosen action . Truth is a very noble road for our chosen path & all though in certain cases it may not help us to work successfully in our action ,how ever this practice certainly makes our life to the chosen road for which it becomes a road for successful life line.
With this during my higher secondary study very often due to my natural intuition gift certain person including professional level use to come & ask me regarding their problems which i used to reply as part of my natural gift . When this matter come to notice of my father he advised me in a very friendly manner that all though you are helping the person in a natural way but it is my feeling & suggestion that in future for every of your action & even for your progressive line keep the motto that '' Fame is the food that Dead men eat .''
This is my personal opinion
There seems to be a direct coincidence between belief and truth. If a speaker is sincere. However there are nuances that need to be examined. What about relations of power and how is one to speak truth to those in power? This concerns what the Greek's termed parrhesia, to give a complete and exact account of what one has in mind. This could be dangerous (think of whisleblowers now or slaves in ancient Greece). Who is able to speak the truth, under what conditions, and what are the consequences of this action? Even when permission has been granted (the freedom) to 'tell the truth' the consequences can be dire. For self preservation would it not be better to remain silent?
Loyalty, general term that signifies a person’s devotion or sentiment of attachment to a particular object, which may be another person or group of persons, an ideal, a duty, or a cause. It expresses itself in both thought and action and strives for the identification of the interests of the loyal person with those of the object. Loyalty turns into fanaticism when it becomes wild and unreasoning and into resignation when it displays the characteristics of reluctant acceptance. Loyalty has an important social function. Only by an individual’s willingness, in cooperation with others, to invest intellectual and moral resources generously and wholeheartedly in something beyond a narrow personal circle has it been possible for communities of various kinds to emerge and continue to exist.
I think , it is not possible.
Even , I think , It is not needed .
Because, there are eternal truth which is the ultimate truth and more than what we think as truth.
Thanks
N Das
People are always capable of delusion and self-deception.
If a so-called believer (1) believes that he is doing X, (2) believes that God is always aware of what he is doing, including doings of X, if any, and (3) believes that God wants him not to do X, then the so-called believer either doesn't really believe at least one of (1)—(3), or else has a pragmatically discordant triad of beliefs.
Telling the truth is never easy but, truth as incredible power in itself and is a necessary component for a fulfilling life.
It is very tough but can't be denied. One must try his best to be true.
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