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THE PROFOUND DARKNESS OF THE HYPOCRITE

1- Contemplating and planning evil actions beforehand:

In the verses, God reveals that hypocrites think keenly and design their treach-

erous and perfidious plans before stepping into action. Hypocrites designate every

detail of their prospective villainy beforehand. When they start a new day, they

make detailed plans as to 'What kind of accusations can I implement towards

Muslims, what kind of aspersions can I cast, how can I depress them, prevent
their beneficial activities, or how can I encumber them and steal their time,

how can I make them exhausted or keep them sleepless and make them consume
the energy they need for spreading God's message?' No doubt that their advisor
and source of inspiration while planning these sinister and treacherous thoughts is
'satan'.

2- Their evil looks: don't speak. S

The second stage of hypocrites' action is 'reflecting the planned treacheries

to their eyes'. Looking with the most disturbing and evil glare distant from

Muslim morality, reflecting the character of unbelievers, in the most big headed,

sniffy, snob, insolent and impudent way is a method that hypocrites implement

fastidiously and patiently. They want to make Muslims feel 'uneasy and perturbed'

by roving among them. They assume that they can cause damage to Islam and

Muslims by making them occupied with themselves and steal their time. They want

to incentivize them to the character of unbelievers with their irreligious conduct

among them. If there are some of them who are prone to being hypocritical, with

this morality they want to forward a message to them and pull them to their side.

Or there may be ones who are well intentioned, newly learning Islam and who have

recently had faith in God and hypocrites also want to deviate them from true faith

and pull them to their side.

3- Their scowling:

Hypocrites, who plan each contamination and malice beforehand and then re-
flect this treachery with their looks, use 'scowling' as another part of their actions.

As it is known, 'scowling' is a gesture, which is deliberately made to give some

message. Indeed its lexical meaning is 'to draw down or contract the brows in a

sullen, displeased, or angry manner'.
Of course in normal conditions, a person can scowl as a natural human mimic.
But when it comes to hypocrites, all these details are 'sneaky and ugly actions

which are used for specific purposes'. In an environment where everyone looks at

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