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the Last Day," when they are not believers. They think they
deceive Allah and the believers. They deceive no one but
themselves, but they are not aware of it. There is a sickness in
their hearts, and Allah has increased their sickness. They will
have a painful punishment because of their disbelief. (Surat al-
Baqara, 8-10)
Hypocrites want to appear to be believers because they hope to

receive some benefit from the real believers. They are jealous of
the believers' material wealth, influence, and glamour and so
pretend to be believers in order to benefit from these things.
However, as revealed in the Qur'an, they are only deceiving
themselves because it is impossible to "imitate" a believer, for they
can only imitate some of the external forms of religion. Thus, all
believers can immediately detect such insincerity, as can any
Messenger. It is revealed in the Qur'an that Allah gives each
Messenger a special understanding that enables him to recognize
hypocrites:

Or did those with sickness in their hearts imagine that Allah
would not expose their malevolence? If We wished, We would
show them to you and you would know them by their mark
and ambivalent speech. Allah knows your actions. (Surah
Muhammad, 29-30)
Allah's Messengers may not immediately disclose the
hypocrites' true nature, but this will become apparent when they
are called upon to sacrifice for the religion, for instance. Since they
are interested in the believers and religion only for personal gain,
their basic insincerity will become evident when they are asked to

do something that will not materially benefit them.
This brings us to one of the hypocrite's salient characteristics: