Point of View of Lying In Islam

There are many verses of the Holy Quran and many hadiths which tell us that we should not tell lies. From the point of view of Islam, lying is considered as a crime, and it might even consider as a major sin.
The Prophet Muhammad (SAW) also recommended Muslims to be honest. He said: “Maintain truthfulness, for truthfulness leads to righteousness, and righteousness leads to Heaven. A man continues to maintain truthfulness until he is recorded in Allah’s book as truthful. Refrain from lying, because lying leads to blatant evil, and evil leads to the fire. A man continues to lie until he is recorded in Allah’s book as a liar,” (Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawood and Al-Tirmithi).

This hadith clearly define that if we lying Allah gives us punishments and it takes to the hell fire as well. In another hadith, the Prophet (SAW) narrated that he saw a liar being punished in the Hereafter by having his mouth, nose and eyes torn with an iron hook. (Bukhari 5745)
Despite the punishment and hell fire, many people tell lies because telling lies becomes the habit of people but we should try to avoid this habit because it is a major sin, when we do Quran reading we finds Quran also forbids lying, Quran says: “And cover not Truth with falsehood, nor conceal the Truth when ye know (what it is)." ( 2:42) Islam as well forbids lying and its related acts such as dishonesty, fraud, insincerity and providing fake testimony.