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The Intricacies of the Evil's Alliance

the good. These devious aims of the hypocrites are related in
several of the verses:

If they had gone out among you, they would have
added nothing to you but confusion. They would have
scurried about amongst you seeking to cause conflict
between you, and among you there are some who
would have listened to them. God knows the
wrongdoers. (Surat at-Tawba: 47)
O Messenger! Do not be grieved by those who rush
headlong into disbelief among those who say 'We believe'
with their tongues when their hearts contain no belief.
And among the Jews are those who listen to lies, listening
to other people who have not come to you, distorting
words from their proper meanings, saying, 'If you are
given this, then take it. If you are not given it, then
beware!' If God desires misguidance for someone, you
cannot help him against God in any way. Those are the
people whose hearts God does not want to purify. They
will have disgrace in the world and in the hereafter they
will have a terrible punishment. (Surah al-Ma'ida: 41)
The character of the hypocrites and their end is also
referred to in the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh):

On the Day of Resurrection, the one in the vilest of conditions will
be a two-faced person. He says one thing (in favour) of one person
and then another thing (in regard to the same affair) to another
person. 4
We should still remember that, although these people
seem to attain their goal in the short term, God definitely
renders their striving futile and inflicts indefinable suffering
on them both in this world and beyond.