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THE PROFOUND DARKNESS OF THE HYPOCRITE

him'. Yet another may tell about how 'birds alighted on her head and walked with
her on the street for hundreds of meters'.
Another character trait that remark lies of hypocrites is that 'they forget their
previous lies and make contradictory speeches'. They say something in the morn-
ing, and something totally different at night. They may say, 'I haven't slept at all
last night' and five minutes later they may start telling a whole different story
saying, 'I have slept through well, and I had so many dreams until the morning'.
Muslims are very honest and greatly conscientious people. They know that
lying is a moral disorder that God prohibited. They seek refuge in God from telling
any harmful or harmless lies. Even if they would suffer grievance due to telling the
truth, they never condescend to such a thing. They fear God and always tell the
truth of everything. So much so that when a little detail of a subject is left unstated
and may lead to some misunderstanding, they correct it and make sure that it is

understood properly.

Hypocrites, who live among such deeply conscientious people, make a huge

contrast with their impostures and naturally attract attention. Muslims immediately

understand that these people don't have normal intelligence or conscience and they

take their precautions accordingly. Hypocrites on the other hand, do not realize

that they have been spotted, so they continue to tell lies carelessly.

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In the Qur'an, God tells Muslims about hypocrites' habit of 'lying' with the

verse, "... so abandon them and all they fabricate'' (Surat al-An'am, 112).
In another verse He tells about this immoral habit of hypocrites, saying "...
they are truly liars" (Surat al-Hashr, 11). Hypocrites tell lots of lies in order to
cover their secret activities and impostures they engage in. They then need more
lies to cover their previous lies. As a result of this, they continuously tell lies to
Muslims' faces from morning till night without any shame.
Another significant feature of hypocrites is that 'there is no sign of shame,
embarrassment or blush on their faces while lying'. They can talk for hours
based on obvious lies, without any uneasiness, in an enormously cheeky and in-
glorious way.
One other remarkable trait of hypocrites is that 'they lie dimwittedly'. There
are some people among unbelievers who tell lies too; and this is no doubt wrong.
However, unbelievers try to tell lies 'shrewdly' in their own way. They don't leave
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