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THE PROFOUND DARKNESS OF THE HYPOCRITE

For that purpose 'they pretend to be a pious Muslim' as much as they can. In the
Qur'an, it is stated that in line with their imposter plans, hypocrites 'make a show
off' in order to be considered as sincere Muslims:
So woe to those who pray,
And are forgetful of their prayer,
Those who show off. (Surat al-Ma'un, 4-6)
Hypocrites try to show themselves as believers with their conspicuous worships
and then by this way they start to use Muslims' opportunities. Hypocrites perfectly
know that when Muslims encounter a statement such as, 'I have faith in God, I
love God and Muslims very much, I want to serve for Islam' they would not re-
spond by saying, 'No you are not a Muslim, we don't believe you'; because Muslims
rejoin that statement with benefit of the doubt. Since hypocrites are aware of this
truth, they try to abuse Muslims' good intentions and propitious point of view in
the utmost way.
Thinking that Muslims are powerful, rich, and live in peace, tranquility,
prosperity, blessings and not being able to abuse them enough makes hypocrites
very angry. As Muslims get wealthier, his greed for exploiting these opportunities
increases. Whenever possible they start to array their wishes slowly with various
justifications. Almost everyday they find a new subject to exploit Muslims' privileges.
This is an 'evil amusement' for hypocrites. From the moment they wake up, they
start to enquire 'what kind of financial and intangible demands I can make,
what kind of troubles I can cause to Muslims, how can I abuse their financial
opportunities?' Hypocrites one day want to go to the doctor for some reason, the
next day to the coiffeur for the need of hair care, and want to go to shopping with
lying that it is a necessity on the other day. At times they want to make people
serve for them pretending they have health issues or get others cook for them, have
their clothes washed and wardrobes cleaned etc. At times they claim that the place
they live affect their health in a negative way and demand more comfortable,
more luxurious and special opportunities to be provided for them.
Sometimes, with finding various excuses on Muslims around them, hypocrites
claim that believers harm them and thereby try to insult Muslims. Hypocrites at-
tempt to lead disturbance with lies such as, "the voice of this person triggers my
migraine'', or "this Y person turns up the volume of TV and prevents my work-
ing'' which are all unsubstantial. With these fanciful vindications, hypocrites aim
at preventing Muslims' activities by hindering them. At the same time, hypocrites
venture 'obtaining new opportunities that will eliminate these so-called distur-

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