What is it and the difference between it and honesty? It is known then that backbiting is not truth, but it is truthfulness. That is why the truthful person is asked about his truthfulness, and the one with the truth is not asked if he did it. Backbiting, gossiping, and the like are truthfulness, not truth, since the truth is what is required, and truthfulness is what is reported in the manner in which it is. It is obligatory, so it is true, and it may not be obligatory, and it is truthfulness, not truth. For this reason, the truthful person is asked about his truthfulness if he was obligated to do so. He will be saved, and if he was not obligated to do so, but was prevented from doing so, he will perish in it. So whoever knows the difference between truth and truthfulness, it is obligatory for him to speak about entitlement, and in it he knows what results from humiliation for others. God granted him the status of his Lord, out of his ignorance of Him. If he humbled himself to th