Page 69 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

These verses refer to hypocrites. These are creatures who say
they are Muslims, who live among Muslims and appear to be one of
them, but who actually harbor a great hostility toward God and
Islam, and seek to stab Muslims in the back. God reveals that those

who die as hypocrites are cast into the lowest circle of hell. As can be
seen, because of its two-faced and treacherous nature, hypocrisy is
an especially dangerous and despicable human trait, quite unlike
traits of the deniers or the polytheists.

It is forbidden in verse 89 of Surat an-Nisa' to adopt as friends
hypocrites, who abandon Muslims and who strive to make Muslims
fall into the same perversions as themselves. What justifies fighting

against them is the state in which the hypocrites in question engage
in physical attacks on Muslims. We can see this from the verse that
follows, verse 90. As is clear from the words "If they keep away
from you and do not fight you and submit to you," there is nothing
to be held against a community that does not engage in attacks. The
community the killing of which is permitted is quite clearly one that

has declared war on Muslims first. Muslims are clearly given the
right to defend themselves in the face of attacks here.

In addition, verse 90 of Surat an-Nisa' is another manifestation
of the just, forgiving and affectionate language, that always favors
peace, of the Qur'an. Some hypocrites, who until then had always
stabbed Muslims in the back and betrayed them but who later adopt-
ed a peaceful attitude toward Muslims are also immune, as we can

see from the words; "Except for those who seek shelter with people
with whom you have a treaty, or who come to you greatly per-
turbed at the prospect of fighting either you or their own people."
In the same verse God says, "If they keep away from you and do not

fight you and submit to you, God has not given you any way against

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