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Honesty reaps the greatest rewards
We all encounter situations in life where uttering a lie seems the most convenient course of action. We end up convincing ourselves that the lie will not hurt anyone and so it is okay to be untruthful. However, the trustworthy ones are those who speak the truth even in the most precarious circumstances. Musa (AS), for instance, could have told the kind old man he met in Madyan that the murder charge against him was false; he, however, narrated the entire incident of how he unintentionally killed a man, and admitted his guilt. Such honesty earned him the respect of the entire family. As the old man’s daughter remarked, 'O my father, hire him. Indeed, the best one you can hire is the strong and the trustworthy.' (28:26)