Page 175 - The Profound Darkness of the Hypocrite

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in the world. In actual fact, hypocrites don't have 'wisdom' because wisdom is a
blessing which God grants people only if they have faith in Him. But since hypocrites
don't have wisdom, they can't realize neither 'their unwiseness' nor 'Muslims' out-
standing wisdom'. Because of their foolishness, they believe Muslims to be 'fools'.
However, 'hypocrites are the foolish ones but they are not aware of this truth';
God informs this truth in the verse with these words, "They are the fools, but they
do not know it."
Due to their unwise assessment, hypocrites think that Muslims cannot realize
their insidiousness, immorality and fatuousness. However, Muslims do realize every
evil sign on them with God's guidance via the Qur'an and the strong wisdom that
God granted them.

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L LYING TAKES THE FORM OOF A ''MENTAL DISEASE' IN HYPOCRITES
Hypocrites need to continue their impostures perpetually, support each of their
ruses with another one and keep strengthening their evil acts in order to survive in
the sneaky lifestyle they built for themselves. While preserving this vile system,
'lying' is one of the immoralities that they need and make use of the most.
For hypocrites who base their lives on 'double-dealing, insidiousness, im-
postures and ruses', 'lying is an ordinary and random activity just as breathing'.
The hypocrite wouldn't be a hypocrite without lying. According to hypocrites'
feeble minds, being honest will not gain them anything; on the contrary, it will
make them lose a lot and risk all their benefits. Therefore, hypocrites have adopted
lies as an important part of their lives and they have become spending a huge part
of their daily lives telling lies.
There is one more thing that should be known about hypocrites. They use
lies for all sorts of evil purposes; for example they lie 'to play dirty tricks, to cast
slanders, to cheat on people, to portray Muslims as bad people, to entrap and

render them unsuccessful, and to support the unbelievers'. But after a while

this habit of theirs turns into an almost 'mental disease' for them. They start to

lie in every phase of their lives in any subject, 'even in inconsequential or pur-
poseless ones', and without any sign of shame or embarrassment on their faces.
This attracts the attention of the people around them. Everything they say is very
exaggerated, like a tale, utopian and rare. They tell 'illogical and exaggerated'
stories. One may tell about how 'he swam across the Bosphorus when he was a
child, or how a car passed over him and he just stood up as nothing happened to
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