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Zeal and Enthusiasm Described in the Qur’an

‘Did we not gain the advantage over you, but we protected
you from the believers?’ Allah will judge between [all of]
you on the Day of Resurrection, and never will Allah give
the unbelievers over the believers a way [to overcome
them]." 115
These people want to take advantage of the benefits believers
enjoy, so at times they try to attract their attention and convince
believers of their commitment to the religion. However, since the

believers have witnessed their indifference and slackness openly
displayed up to that point, they cannot succeed in persuading
them.
Hypocritical people have such a distorted rationale that they
manage to deceive even themselves and think that they can share
in the rewards believers will obtain in the next life. In the Qur’an
their true position in the hereafter is described:

"...On the Day the hypocrite men and hypocrite women will
say to those who believed, ‘Wait for us that we may acquire
some of your light.’ It will be said, ‘Go back behind you and
seek light.’ 116 And a wall will be placed between them with
a door, its interior containing mercy, but on the outside of it
is torment. They [i.e., the hypocrites] will call to them [i.e.,
the believers], ‘Were we not with you?’ They will say, ‘Yes,
but you afflicted yourselves and waited and doubted, and
wishful thinking deluded you until there came the com-
mand of Allah. And the Deceiver [i.e., satan] deceived you
concerning Allah. So today no ransom will be taken from
you or from those who disbelieved. Your refuge is the Fire.
It is most worthy of you, and wretched is the destina-
tion." 117

Such people must realize that unless they have sincere faith in

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