Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Baqara, Ayah 42
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Other Scholars on This Ayah
Tafsir
(Confound not truth with falsehood), do not mix the Truth with falsehood, i.e. the description of the anti-Christ with the description of Muhammad (pbuh) (nor knowingly conceal the Truth), nor conceal the Truth while you know what is the Truth.
Related Hadiths
It is obligatory for you to tell the truth, for truth leads to virtue and virtue leads to Paradise, and the man who continues to speak the truth and endeavours to tell the truth is eventually recorded...
"The Messenger of Allah forbade giving a false impression."
Avoid suspicion for suspicion is the most lying form of talk. Do not be inquisitive about one another, or spy on one another.
The Messenger of Allah said: "Do not mix raisins and dried dates, nor Al-Busr and dried dates."
‘Do not make Nabidh with dried dates and unripe dates together, make Nabidh with each of them on its own.”
“Do not combine fresh dates and unripe dates, or raisins and dates; rather make Nabidh with each one of them on its own.”*
The Messenger of Allah said: "Do not soak Az-Zahuw and ripe dates together, and do not soak raisins and ripe dates together."
Do not mix fresh dates and dry dates, and grapes and fresh dates for preparing Nabidh.
Do not prepare Nabidh by mixing nearly ripe dates and fresh dates together, and do not prepare Nabidh by mixing grapes and dates together, but prepare Nabidh from each (one of them) separately.
Do not sell gold for gold and silver for silver weight for weight or of the same quality.
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
And do not obscure confuse the truth that I have revealed to you with falsehood that you fabricate; and do not conceal the truth the description of Muhammad (s) wittingly that is knowing it to be the truth.