Page 169 - 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 )

Do you order people to devoutness and forget yourselves, when you recite
the Book? Will you not use your intellect? (Surat al-Baqara, 44)

In the verse, God states, "Do you forget yourselves?". Indeed, it is a significant

sign of hypocrites to be contented with themselves and forget their own faults.

God says, "when you recite the Book". Hypocrites recite the Qur'an and know

very well about the verses. God says, "Will you not use your intellect?" This way,

God invites people who know the verses of the Qur'an yet fail to live by them to use

their intellect and conscience.

Although hypocrites know perfectly well about the moral values of the Qur'an,

they do not put them into practice but instead use this information to criticize

Muslims. This is indeed a tactic that they have learned from satan. However, as re-

vealed in the Qur'an, "the satan's scheming is always feeble." (Surat an-Nisa', 76).

Satan is doomed to be defeated against Muslims. Therefore, it is by no means

possible for hypocrites, who follow satan and attempt to play games based on his

tactics, to be successful against sincere believers.

H HYPOCRITES ARE INSANELY PROTECTIVE OF THEMSELVES
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Hypocrites regard themselves as the most precious beings on earth. Conse-

quently, their ambition to protect the very thing they value the most turns into an

insane obsession with them. They have no tolerance to well-intentioned criticism

or even the slightest advice given; no tolerance to hear the utterance of any of

their deficiencies, mistakes or slip ups about any topic. They imagine that it

would severely discredit them and believe that the 'charisma' they imagined

themselves to have formed would thus be ruined and that they would 'stoop' to

the position of ordinary people like everyone else. For that reason, they try to

present themselves as if they are 'flawless,' even more than perfect, extraordinary

people with rarely found 'intelligence, knowledge and talents'. They carry out

every kind of crookedness that one might imagine, to protect this 'fake image' they

imagine they have. When they think that even a slightest harm would touch them

they become unrestrained. Their facial expressions, gazes, tones, speeches, body

language and gestures would be completely out of control.

What drags hypocrites into this insane state of mind is merely their 'devilish

fondness of their lower-selves'. They have almost idolized, deified themselves-

may God forbid. Since they do not believe in God, they themselves are the only

things they value and regard as the goal of their lives. They behave not for the

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