زندگى تحت توفيقات اصول اخلاق - مكارم شيرازى، ناصر - الصفحة ٦٦ - Lie ,source of all sins

All vices are put in a room and its key is lie.. [١]

It is easily inferred from this tradition that lie is the key ofall vices and evils.

Now we study the effects of truthfulness and lie in man'sdeeds:

١- Lie is the source of hypocrisy, because truthfulness refersto harmony of tongue and heart, and lie is inharmony of thesetwo, and hereof difference between man's interior and outwardis started, and the liar gradually proceeds to full hypocrisy.

Holy Quran refers to this fact and says:.

فَاعْقَبَهُمْ نِفاقاً فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ الى‌ يَوْمِ يَلْقَوْنَهُ بِما اخْلَفُوا اللَّهَ ما وَعَدُوهُ وَ بِما كانُوا يَكْذِبُونَ‌ ..

So, as a result, He puts hypocrisy into their hearts, until theday they meet Him, for that they failed God in that they promised Him and they were liars.. [٢]

٢- Lie is the tool of most sins. Dishonest and guileful, robberand treacherous, short weighing and hoarder, tricky and perjurer individuals can not continue anymore and reach to a stalemate if they do not lie.

٣- An envious person for envying, a proud person forostentation and frippery, a subservient and flatterer person forachieving his goals, greedy and secularist individuals forattaining their objectives, usually resort to die. They debase theenvied person in public view falsely, and glorify themselves falsely. They say thousands of flatteries falsely, and resort to liefor satiation of their greedy souls.

٤- One who is bound to truthfulness, has no alternative save

[١]Majlessi ,BeharolAnvar ,٣٦٢ /٢٧

[٢]Repentancesura (٩) ,verse ٧٧