Page 137 - The Profound Darkness of the Hypocrite

A D N A N O K TA R ( H A R U N Y A H Y A )

Undoubtedly that, each incident that took place in the era of our Prophet
(pbuh), each provision that are stated regarding to them, are also guide ways for
each subsequent Muslim community. The 'respect and reverence convenance' to-
wards our Prophet (pbuh) that is described in the Qur'an shows Muslims how the
respect that is shown between each other and towards their spiritual leaders who

have outstanding morals should be.

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In the Qur'an, another important thing that is reminded to Muslims is 'the im-

portance of prioritizing our Prophet (pbuh) in every setting that he is present

and on every subject, revering him ahead and treasuring him the most'. This

morality is a very important 'sign of believers' that manifests Muslims' love, respect,

reverence and devotion towards our Prophet (pbuh).

The ones who don't feel these sincerely, can't show these moral values of the

Qur'an even through mimicking. Hypocrites who feel 'jealousy, rage, anger, intol-

erance and greed for coming to the fore or superiority' towards our Prophet
(pbuh), can never show respectful behaviors of a true Muslim. Contrarily, hypocrites

attract notice with their 'disrespectful attitudes' that are total opposite of Muslims'
in the presence of the Prophet (pbuh).
In the Qur'an, God reveals how Muslims' respect and propriety should be both
to hypocrite characters who show this ill morality and to the good-intentioned
ones who adopt wrong manners due to their ignorance or uncouthness as follows:

You who have faith! Do not put yourselves forward in front of God and of

His Messenger; and fear God. God is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Surat al-
Hujurat, 1)

As it is known, at that time there were people from every belief, culture and

character around our Prophet (pbuh) as well as sincere Muslims. There were the

ones who were actually well-intentioned but did not know moral values of Islam
yet or the ones who had defects on matters of kind thoughts, courtesy, kindness
and respect due to their upbringing. But hypocrites were different than all the
others as they were showing these immoralities and attitude disorders deliber-
ately and intentionally. That is to say that hypocrites perfectly knew how to
behave in the presence of our Prophet (pbuh) with due respect. But in order to
make him sense their evil mindset sneakily, they especially weren't adopting this

respectful manner. In order to cover their insincerity they were saying that they

loved our Prophet (pbuh); but essentially there were grudge and hatred within

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