زندگى تحت توفيقات اصول اخلاق - مكارم شيرازى، ناصر - الصفحة ٧٦ - Lie in exceptional cases

correction, and the cases mentioned in the traditions are someexamples. For instance, since reconciliation among people and joining scattered hearts and washing out the dust of hatred and enmity from hearts is more important than the lie, which does not harm anyone else, it is permitted. The same is true in exigency cases for preserving life and honor of oneself or others, and or in planning and implementation of war plans, a lie, causing expedition in termination of war and preventing blood shedding and or repressing an unjust and corrupter enemy in this way, and also when two spouses argue about some matters, the continuation of which may result in their divorce or other corruption, but it is possible to solve their problem through one lie. In all of these cases, lie would be permitted for preservation of more important expedient affairs. If we pay attention accurately, in these cases, disadvantages and harms of lie which were already mentioned, are much less and do not overweigh its advantage and benefit.

It is also noteworthy that prescription of" lie" in such cases isjust like prescription of eating carrion, which should becontented as much as the necessity, and not so that exceptionscause daring performance of this" capital sin", and saying lie foreach little issue with the pretext of lie permits.

In fact, moral mistakes are always around the excep tionalcases and notes. These are the same ambiguous matters whichare the" risk area" bounded by the" forbidden area":

«مَحارِمُ اللَّهِ حِمَى اللَّهِ فَمَنْ يَرْتَعْ حَوْلَ الْحِمى‌ يُوشَكُ انْ يَقَعَ فِيها» ..

The forbidden degrees are divine forbidden areas; one wholeads his animal near the forbidden boundaries, there is the risk