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lievers. Some of the opportunities that such behavior opens to
them may seem attractive, and they may want to benefit from
them. While doing this, however, they refrain from any physical
or spiritual difficulty.
However, believers understand such people's real intentions
very well. Yet they often do not mention it, for such insincere
people may realize their mistake later on and turn to Allah in re-
pentance for it. Indeed, believers can never be deceived by insin-
cere people.
Unbelievers and hypocrites have some attributes in common.
The most salient one is their reluctance to remember Allah. The
Qur'an refers to unbelievers, as follows:
When Allah is mentioned on His own, the hearts of those
who do not believe in the afterlife shrink back shudder-
ing; but when others apart from Him are mentioned, they
jump for joy. (Surat az-Zumar, 45)
This is exactly the attitude of those who strive to be with be-
lievers in order to derive some benefit. They do not like to be re-
minded of Allah's remembrance and His commands, but rejoice
at anything that furthers their personal interests.
Believers are very compassionate and merciful people; they
never treat people unkindly. However, insincere people can
never grasp this attitude. Being used to conflicts and quarrels in
their own unbelieving societies, they attempt to abuse this le-
niency and behave arrogantly toward them. In fact, this attitude
only causes them to humiliate themselves.
Insincere people soon realize that they cannot gain any bene-
fits from believers and start distancing themselves from them
and return to their former life. They find a new pretext that al-
lows them to revert to the ignorant life that they really never left.
The verse below relates what will happen to them in the

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