Four fingers

The Commander of the Faithful, Ali ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him, was asked: What is the difference between truth and falsehood? He said: Four fingers, and the Commander of the Faithful placed his hand on his ear and his eyes. He said: What your eyes see is the truth, and what your ears hear is mostly falsehood. And based on this underlying meaning in the saying of Ali ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him, I recalled many situations that I saw and others that I heard, and those I lived through or read about or witnessed or part of, so I found myself amidst them trying to distinguish the truth from falsehood in what I saw, heard, read, and experienced. And because I discovered that the profession is really difficult, I decided to record it on my papers so that it becomes a book through which I remember, by recalling some of its information, what my memory might fail to retrieve when I truly need it. The lawyer, Muhammad Ouda Al-Khalidi.