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THE PROFOUND DARKNESS OF THE HYPOCRITE

that the one who was richest by means of wealth and possessions should be the
leader. However, in the verse God points out that superiority doesn't come with

goods and wealth. Leadership happens not based on ignorant and ostensible

measures, but is granted through God's will and choice and God gives a special
knowledge, erudite, physical strength and enlightenment to the servants He choses
to make leaders, therefore favors the leader of Muslims with eminence and superi-
ority.
However, hypocrites' value judgments are incompatible with the Qur'an. In

the direction of their own idolatrous beliefs they have described rules of the time of

ignorance as 'realities of life'; and they think that the spiritual leaders of Muslims

are unaware of these realities. They presume up to their thinking that the leaders of

Muslims 'don't know people well, can't recognize people's real characters, can't

evaluate incidents right and therefore don't take wise decisions'. Besides, hyp-

ocrites believe that everything should be evaluated in accordance with the ostensible

benefit calculations. For them 'the wisest person is the one who preserves his

benefits better and who gets more interest.'

Therefore hypocrites can't comprehend the fact that our Prophet (pbuh) didn't

live in accordance with the ignorant people's 'deviant value judgments and their

desire to get benefit .' With their wimpy minds they described our Prophet's (pbuh)

choices which he had made considering most of God's approval instead of preserving

benefits as 'inexact' or 'wrong'-surely our Prophet (pbuh) is beyond this.

However, God gave the prophets, messengers and His saintly servants a special

enlightenment and taught them 'hidden knowledge' besides 'outward knowledge'.

Therefore these blessed and enlightened people conduct with awareness of many

things that normal people can't know; and they are granted this special knowl-

edge with guidance and inspiration from God. They can see details ordinary
people can't see and notice possibilities others don't realize through their high en-

lightenment, insight and prudence. Therefore their speeches, decisions and assess-

ments are highly erudite, well-directed and full of wisdom, considerably superior
than the understandings of people who only ponder through outward knowledge.
Our Prophet (pbuh) acts with the outstanding wisdom and knowledge God
grants to him and conducts with the inspiration of Almighty God, Who has infinite
wisdom, Who also creates the totality of unbelievers, hypocrites and rules of people
of ignorance. The Prophet (pbuh) evaluates people and affairs with this higher wis-
dom, profundity, penetration and foresight; and makes his decisions with God's
guidance and inspiration, his conscience and according to the moral values of the
Qur'an . Therefore he takes the most auspicious decisions, diagnoses in the most
accurate way and acts with best guidance and direction. As a result, God gives the

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