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THE PROFOUND DARKNESS OF THE HYPOCRITE

life goes and ends fast, people get closer to death rapidly. No matter how tied people
are to the worldly life, everyone has to leave this world after a really short time.
This clear fact increases Muslims' love and reverential fear of God and makes
them attain superior moral values in line with the Qur'an. However, this creates a
'huge nightmare' in the soul of the hypocrite. Since they don't believe in hereafter,
in their point of view death is an uncertainty, which is full of horror and in
which they don't know what will happen. They don't believe that they will be
questioned for what they did in this world and continue to live an eternal life in the
hereafter. Therefore they never want to get closer to death and don't deal with
anything that will remind them of death.

Signs of elderliness that gradually occur on their bodies as they get older

make them crazy. With an incredible panic they look for 'ways to get rid of these

signs, to stop getting older and rejuvenate'. They search for formulas that will al-

ways keep them young, they try every possible thing they know. They go to various

doctors, follow latest innovations that technology offers and patiently try each one

of these methods.

This horrendous fear of hypocrites is explained in the Qur'an as follows: "Yet

you see those with sickness in their hearts rushing to them, saying, 'We fear the

wheel of fate may turn against us.'" (Surat al-Ma'ida, 52)

With the statement in the verse, "We fear the wheel of fate may turn against

us" hypocrites' 'fear for getting into trouble, illness, elderliness and death' is in-

dicated. They are also in fear of the "wheel of fate" which may turn against them,

and this may also be 'incurable cancer, another pitiless disease or a distress which

has no solution'.

The part of the verse where it says "We fear the wheel of fate may turn against

us" also expounds an important detail for understanding psychological state of

hypocrites. Because the concern in here is not that fate will turn as a disaster against

'other people' but only to 'them'. Thus, the hypocrite lives in fear due to this fact.

Hypocrites feel dreadful emotions due to disaster possibilities they fiction-

alize. While they practice the wicked immorality and infamy by giving ear to the

inspiration of satan for all their lives, the other half of their mind is also busy strug-

gling with the fear of these disasters.

As a requirement of God's Creation of natural laws and order, it is of course

not possible for hypocrites to be happy, get over their fears and find peace while
cooperating with evil. The fear they are going through is a part of the spiritual hell

that God created for hypocrites on earth. And as long as they don't gravitate towards

to the sincere faith, they will never find peace in their hearts.
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