# Lying in Islam

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-in-islam/226763>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 30, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-in-islam/226763 "2004-01-30T15:31:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-in-islam/226763/1 "2004-01-30T15:31:04Z")

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Is there an Islamic equivalent to “Thou shall not bear false witness” in the Koran or the Hadiths ?

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**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-in-islam/226763/2 "2004-01-31T01:29:28Z")

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I’m not Muslim, but I am under the impression that Muslims, Jews and Christians all accept the Ten Commandments as given to Moses.

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**Author:** ![Cillasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@Cillasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cillasi)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-in-islam/226763/3 "2004-01-31T02:10:59Z")

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Here are the 10 commandments as espoused in the Quran:

[http://www.submission.org/quran/ten.html](http://www.submission.org/quran/ten.html)

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**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-in-islam/226763/4 "2004-01-31T20:41:12Z")

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> [@grienspace](#):
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> Is there an Islamic equivalent to “Thou shall not bear false witness” in the Koran or the Hadiths ?

Yes. Testimony is given to Allah, as in ‘with Allah as my witness.’ Lying then becomes a matter between the liar and Allah on Judgement Day.

If you are looking for specific verses a [Koran lookup](http://www.hti.umich.edu/k/koran/simple.html)can help.

**Cillasi** , Koran only, no weight to hadith, belivers are a small but growing fraction of Muslims. Submitters, the authors of your cite, are a small mostly American fraction of those (who also belive in a numerical proof of the Koran.) I say this only as a footnote for your cite is most useful.

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**Author:** ![Spezza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Spezza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spezza)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lying-in-islam/226763/5 "2004-02-01T02:32:33Z")

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Cillasi, I think whomever compiled that list may be making an over-enthusiastic comparison between the Old Testament and the Qu’ran. I’m not disagreeing with it, but collecting a bunch of verses from the Qu’ran to compare it with the Ten Commandments is rather presumptuous; IMHO.  
Although I am not an expert, I am a religious studies student specializing in Islam (albeit from a school without a full-time Islamic professor!), from what I understand, most revelations in the Qu’ran came from Muhammad in response to a certain situation. By taking a single verse or quote from particular chapter it would be easy to misinterpret the passage. I just like to warn people about our natural desire to make over-enthusiastic comparisons; especially when comparing different religions we are not familiar with