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THE PROFOUND DARKNESS OF THE HYPOCRITE

of speaking and gentle conduct. As it is stated in the Qur'an with the verse "You
have an excellent model in the Messenger of God, for all who put their hope in

God and the Last Day and remember God much,'' (Surat al-Ahzab, 21) God ex-

emplified him with his morality and life for all Muslims. It is unthinkable that a

person close to our Prophet (pbuh) who is an amazing blessing will not notice his
outstanding morality. Every person who acts in line with his conscience and strives
for attaining God's approval can take his superior morality as an example for himself
and beautify his conduct. Besides, it is clear that our Prophet (pbuh) who perfectly
knows gentleness, kind thoughts, respect, and love and carry out them consum-
mately, will see reverse of these attitudes exhaustively in detail and be disturbed by
evil or ignorant misbehavior that is opposite to moral values of the Qur'an.

Yet, hypocrites were aware of all these truths. They exhibited those repugnant

attitudes with emphasizing their deviant point of views in order to bother Mus-

lims and to be esteemed in the eyes of hypocrites.

Hypocrites who yell and raise their voices during our Prophet's (pbuh) con-

versations, who try to preclude our Prophet (pbuh), who call him behind doors

and outside his private quarters, of course give significant evidence against them-

selves with these attitudes. Therefore Muslims can clearly differentiate them from

sincere Muslims who are deeply committed to our Prophet (pbuh), who hold a

profound love for him in their hearts and treat him with ultimate grace and respect.

Thus believers also recognize those who cannot be trusted and should be watched

out.

Those sick souls could not appreciate our Prophet's (pbuh) outstanding morality,

high conscience, patience and compassion, and were not conscious of how a precious
blessing it was to live in the same era with our Prophet (pbuh); they surely sustained
losses both in this world and the hereafter.
Just like in the era of our Prophet (pbuh), today's hypocrites who exhibit the
same evil attitude towards Muslims and their spiritual leaders will face the same
detriment. They will never be able to damage Islam, Muslims or messengers that
God chose and made superior. The darkness of the evil world they desire will first
parch them with pain, distress and unhappiness within this world, and then they
will meet with the hell's torment. In a verse in the Qur'an, God reveals the end of
the ones who spurned their Lord's command:

How many cities spurned their Lord's command and His Messengers! And
so We called them harshly to account and punished them with a terrible
punishment (Surat at-Talaq, 8)

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