the reason for the 2jjah is in approving lying in some places and in disparaging truthfulness in other places and in attaching lying to the rank of truthfulness and in lowering truthfulness to the position of lying. and that people wrong lying by forgetting its virtues 3 and remembering its faults 4 and they love 5 truthfulness by remembering its benefits and forgetting its harms.
وعلة الجهجاه ٢ في تحسين الكذب في مواضع، وفي تقبيح الصدق في مواضع، وفي إلحاق الكذب بمرتبة الصدق، وفي حط الصدق الى موضع الكذب. وأن الناس يظلمون الكذب بتناسي مناقبه ٣ ، وتذكر مثالبه ٤ ، ويحابون ٥ الصدق بتذكر منافعه، وبتناسي مضاره.