Page 131 - The Profound Darkness of the Hypocrite

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and a mercy for those among you who have faith.' As for those who insult
the Messenger of God, they will have a painful punishment. (Surat at-Tawba,
61)

Hypocrites, knowing that they lie, made 'insincere, sneaky, venomous and
wrathful accusations' towards our Prophet (pbuh) with the purpose of 'aggrieving
and annoying' him. In the Qur'an it is stated that same immorality was also an im-
portant characteristic of hypocrites in the era of the Prophet Moses (pbuh):

You who have faith! Do not be like those who abused Moses. God absolved

him of what they said and he was highly honored with God. (Surat al-Ahzab,

69)

God explains how hypocrites who have lived throughout history and will live

until the Day of Judgment show the same evil iniquity and how they can use the

same methods in a verse as follows:

Stir up any of them you can with your voice and rally against them your

cavalry and your infantry and share with them in their children and their

wealth and make them promises! The promise of satan is nothing but delu-

sion. (Surat al-Isra', 64)

In the verse, one of the most important parts of the ones who are indicated as

"any of them you can'' are 'hypocrites'. Satan can conduct the ones who listen to

him, obey him and thereby who aim a struggle against Islam, the Qur'an and Mus-

lims. Satan can direct them and make his way as he wants. Indeed, 'hurting Muslims

with sharp tongues', 'stirring up with voice and rallying against' are all methods
that satan teaches to hypocrites and makes them carry out. In every era, hypocrites
used this treacherous and grubby method with satan's whisperings and they still
continue to use it.
When they are applying these methods, again with the inspiration they receive
from satan, hypocrites pay attention to use 'sharp tongues' as it is reported in the
verse. They carefully use specific words, which they assume to be able to put a
damper on Muslims, make them hopeless and deject them. They use a way of
speaking that is allusive, envious, vindictive, quarrelsome, mordacious, intriguer
and highly-charged. They aim embarrassing Muslims with trying to revive their
incapability, deficiencies, defects and faults. They also assume that they can
efface other believers' respect, compassion and trust towards them with this
method.
Especially they surmise – up to their conjecture - that they find a deficiency
of the spiritually leading Muslims and mention it with huge excitement and ex-

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