“If a man tells you a lie,” asks our Grandshaykh, “what will be your position? You must not say, ‘No! that isn’t true.” You must not refuse his words. This is a high character and good manners.

“You may tell him, “Oh? Is it so?” Maybe, in your sight his statement has no reality, but you must be gentle. We have not been ordered to refuse people, but to make them more pleased. We are living in a time when people may say anything and everything; you must be patient with them, and excuse them, always without fighting. You must know that people are ill in their egos. If you are claiming to be doctors, you must excuse them. If you are on the way of prophets , you must help them and be tolerant of them. This is the highest degree of good manners.

-Shaykh Maulana Nazim al-Hakkani