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Telling the truth is a very good habit.If you 1 speak the truth, you can save yourself from a lot of 2 ! Here is a story of a man who did a lot of 3 things, but his promise to tell the truth 4 him.
Once a man came to a teacher and said, “Excuse me, but I have many bad 5 .Which one of them should I 6 first?”The teacher said, “Give up telling 7 first and always speak the truth.”The man promised to do so and went home.
At night the man was about to go out to steal.Before setting out, he thought for a moment about the 8 he made with the teacher.“ 9 tomorrow the teacher asks me where I have been, what shall I say?Shall I say that I went out 10 ? No, I cannot say that.But nor can I lie.If I tell the truth, 11 will start hating me and call me a thief.I would be 12 for stealing.”
So the man 13 not to steal that night, and gave up this bad habit.The next day, he 14 drinking wine.When he was about to do so, he said to himself, “What shall I say to the teacher if he asks me what I did during the day?I cannot tell a lie, and if I speak the truth people will 15 me, because a Muslim is not 16 to drink wine.”And so he gave up the 17 of drinking wine.
In this way, 18 the man thought of doing something bad, he 19 his promise to tell the truth.One by one, he gave up all his bad habits and became a very 20 person.