Page 163 - 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 )

Indeed, every time I called them to Your forgiveness, they put their fingers
in their ears, wrapped themselves up in their clothes and were overweeningly
arrogant. (Surah Nuh, 7)
Then he looked. Then he frowned and glowered. Then he drew back and
was proud. (Surat al-Muddaththir, 21-23)

As one can clearly understand from these verses, when Muslims give advice to

hypocrites based on the Qur'an, their immediate reaction is to turn their backs;

they immediately make up excuses to leave the place where the verses of the Qur'an

are read. In the meantime they try to cover up this insidious escape with a seemingly

convincing excuse. Sometimes they move to another room pretending that they

have work to do and therefore cannot listen to the conversation. Sometimes they
pretend that they are either sleepless or tired, or need to complete an urgent job

so they need to leave early.
These people with insidious souls also use certain methods of psychological
struggle against Muslims in order to escape from the environments where the
verses of the Qur'an and good moral values are narrated. When hypocrites apply
these methods, they especially use their eyes and tone of voice rather than solely
talking. For example, they stay where they receive advice but insidiously try to
reflect that 'they do not listen to', 'do not care about' or 'are not affected by what
they hear'. With their evil and insidious glance, they make a long and sour face,
put on an aggressive expression, knit their brows, look meaninglessly with an
open mouth, do not confirm what they are told, and speak only in a low voice
and say just the opposite of what they are told. This way, in their own feeble

minds, they wish to make it obvious to the Muslims that they are not affected by

their speech at all.
God reveals in the Qur'an, "Do you not see those who have been given a por-

tion of the Book being invited to let God's Book be the judge between them?

But then a group of them turn away" (Surah Al 'Imran, 23). This means that hyp-
ocrites are encouraged a lot by the believers in order to live by a Muslim way of life
and think in line with the Qur'an. However, their arrogance causes them to get of-

fended when Muslims give advise to them and they show their dislike clearly in

their speeches and body language.

In a verse, God reveals that when the verses of the Qur'an are recited or hyp-
ocrites are given advice based on these verses, they do not endure to listen to
these recommendations:

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