Good deeds and manners 04: Ultimate fate of truthfulness and falsehood

In this series of weekly posts, I am going to reminding us about some good deeds we need to do and bad deeds we must not do. My posts will be based on Sahih (Authentic) and Hasan (Good) hadith. Today's topic is truthfulness and falsehood.

Here Prophet (PBUH) has advised us to do two things:

1. Abide by truthfulness
2. Refrain from falsehood

He has also told us the benefit of doing first one and danger of doing the second one. Truthfulness leads to the righteousness which ultimately leads us to paradise. Who doesn't want to go to Paradise?? This is a shortcut. Always try to tell the truth and try to do the right things. Eventually, the creator will consider us a truthful person and He will be satisfied with us. The behaviour will make us worthy of paradise.
On the other hand, Falsehood leads to wickedness followed by entry to the eternal hellfire. Who consistently tells lie, will be considered as a liar to the Almighty. And He will definitely be happy with a liar.

Two completely opposite qualities. Two can't exist at the same time. We should always try to be the better version of ourselves.
We all know the story of a liar shepherd boy who ultimately got the punishment for his consistent lies. Lets us read the story again:

In a village, there was a shepherd boy. Every day he was herding goats in the pasture away from the village. The shepherd was a naughty child. He liked nosy to her friend.
On a hot day, he was herding his goats in a pasture, not far from his village. In another group, people's goats the village herded as well, although no one guarding.
Suddenly, he had a bad idea to lie to the villagers. Then he cried out, "There are wolves.! There are wolves.! Please ... please ... please...!" "The wolf will eat our goats." He hoped the villagers heard him and immediately ran toward the prairie.
Villagers who heard the cries of the boy immediately ran to the pasture to save goats them. But when they arrived, but to no wolf. Only a herd boy who laughed heartily saw villagers who had succeeded him lied.
Next day, the shepherd boy to repeat the trick. She screamed louder than ever, "there are wolves ... There is a wolf ... the goats we want to be eaten ... Villagers back rushing to save their goats. Shepherd boy came back roaring with laughter.
Until one day, a pack of wolves actually came over to the goats,Story For Child the herd boy. The shepherd boy was so scared and immediately shouted loudly, "Please... please..., there are wolves will eat my goat. Please... please...!"
The villagers heard the cries of the shepherd boy. But they said nothing, though admittedly it was a hoax shepherd boy again. So they remained silent in the village to continue their work. Poor shepherd boy, all his goats gone devoured the wolves.source

If we once tell a lie, we have to tell more lie to keep it going. And we need to keep it remembered otherwise there chances of getting caught. But a truth teller doesn't need that. We know the famous quotation of Mark Twain:

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

#JummahMubarak #FridayMotivation

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What is a hadith?
According to britannica.com

Hadith, Arabic Ḥadīth (“News” or “Story”), also spelt Hadīt, a record of the traditions or sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, revered and received as a major source of religious law and moral guidance, second only to the authority of the Qurʾān, the holy book of Islam.

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