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THE PROFOUND DARKNESS OF THE HYPOCRITE

were a group accepted and advocated by a majority of the popular, wealthy and in-
fluential segment of the society and decided that it would be more rational to side
with them.
This wannabe, debased, self-seeking and sycophant approach is the general
attitude of hypocrites who are subservient to unbelievers. They think that they
are 'very smart and shrewd' and Muslims are people who do not know how to
protect their own worldly interests and who are 'fools' (Surat al-Baqara, 13) as re-
vealed in the verse. They believe that they are protecting their worldly interests by
siding with people whom they think are strong and that Muslims are in vain siding
with the weak. They are not aware how humiliating and insulting it is to befriend
people who embrace this loathsome abomination only for personal gain.
Just like every other hypocrite, the hypocrite wife of the Prophet Lot (pbuh)
was acting in line with such irreligious stance. While the Prophet Lot (pbuh) was
striving against this deviant group inside his community, his hypocrite wife was
secretly confiding with homosexuals intending to carry out factious deeds against
the Prophet (pbuh). She did not approve of the Prophet Lot's (pbuh) attitude –
surely the Prophet Lot (pbuh) is beyond this- and sided with the homosexuals at
the risk of going against him as a result. Since she thought that homosexuals
were a majority and stronger, she hoped to reap some personal benefits. She was
making worldly plans like, "Maybe I can gain money and power, and reputation,
or I can get people's respect and protection by leaning my back on powerful
people and be comfortable all through my life and turn out to be a prominent
figure." Otherwise, of course she knew that this deviant community was made up
of insidious and abhorrent people with debased characters. But since she did not
have high moral virtues, she did not care about their perverted actions.
The hypocrite wife of Lot (pbuh) could have left him and other believers to
lead a life among these deviant people whom she admired. However, it became ap-
pealing to her to stay among the believers in order to stealthily support this deviance
and play unruly tricks against the believers. She preferred to stay with the Prophet
to pursue her plots there, thinking that she would become a very significant

personality among unbelievers and homosexuals depending on her level of

treachery against Muslims.

The wife of Lot (pbuh) who followed this point of view gathered intelligence

about the Prophet and the believers, and then communicated this information
to homosexuals of her community as a crucial duty. In those days when there
was an intense struggle between believers and the irreligious community composed
of homosexual perverts, this hypocrite woman posed as a believer and 'communi-
cated all the intelligence she gathered to the homosexuals in her community.'
She was 'spying' against the believers insidiously. She 'transferred information' to

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