Page 53 - The Hypocrite According to the Qur'an

They Cause Fitnah (Tribulation)

cording to a plan, down to its minutest detail, and everything
takes place under His control and will.

They Cause Fitnah In Times Of Difficulty
Hypocrites show their deviousness especially in times of
difficulty. They become involved in conspiracies with other
hypocrites, and carry on a concerted struggle to divert those
they consider having profound faith from the righteous path.
To this end, they will not even hesitate to cooperate with disbe-
lievers. But, hypocrites forgot that all their plans, actions and
speech are preordained, one by one, and that Allah is witness

over all their deeds. With the verse, “Allah will not give the
disbelievers any way against the believers”, (Surat an-Nisa’,
141) our Lord states that the efforts of the hypocrites will be in
vain. And, in another verse, Allah reveals that believers will al-
ways be victorious:

As for those who make Allah their friend, and His
Messenger and those who have faith: it is the party of
Allah who are victorious! (Surat al-Ma’ida, 56)
In times when the hypocrites deem the believers to be
weak, they strive to mislead them into treachery, despair and
despondence. Insidiously, they try to attract adherents with
words that will instill doubts in their hearts and harm their
faith. One of the methods used by them to this end is to spread
lies about the believers.
Allah tells us in the Qur’an that they will try to plant vain

desires by claims such as, “what Allah and His Messenger
promised us was mere delusion,” (Surat al-Ahzab, 12) or “...
these people have been deluded by their religion...” (Surat al-
Anfal, 49). Hypocrites believe they recognize truths believers
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