Lying as a means to forbid evil
24-10-2007 | IslamWeb
Question:
Asalamualeykum. is it allowed to lie during ramadan in order to stop munkar? when i bought a truck recently the owner forgot to take his shikh religion book, its kept in a globe compartment wrapped in a red cloth. i wanted to return it to the person however a local shyke advised me since this is munker i have to throw it to a garbage , and if the owner ever ask for it to tell him that i never saw it. however i try to tell him we should be respectful to other religion and invividuals beleifs, yet the shyke said we dont respect other religion since they all are full of disbeliefs and munker...he also siad they prophet salalhualey waslem before his death he advised muslim to drive jewish and christian from the land of arab..based on this he is telling me to distroy his book. what is your advise?
Answer:
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
It is not permissible to respect other religions as they disbelieve in Allaah. Hence, it is an obligation to destroy such a book so that it could not be read by people. If lying is the only means to achieve this, then this is permissible. The scholars 
stated that it is permissible to lie in order to achieve a praised objective which cannot be achieved except by lying.
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