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THE PROFOUND DARKNESS OF THE HYPOCRITE

Such slanders never come to an end as long as hypocrites continue to stay
among Muslims. Even though they know that Muslims are the people who are the
most conscientious and honest people they can ever meet, they want to 'cause dis-
turbance and hurt Muslims trying to defame these immaculate people'. However,
all they do results in benevolence for Muslims and punishment for hypocrites.
God states in the Qur'an that hypocrites who tell lies and slander will encounter a
painful punishment in the hereafter:

Woe to every wicked liar who hears the signs of God recited to him and
then persists in his arrogance just as if he had never heard them. Give him

the news of a painful punishment. (Surat al-Jathiyya, 7-8)

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With their slanders, hypocrites aim to 'cause an atmosphere of unrest and

disturbance among Muslims, make them fall out with each other, and harm the

trust they feel for one another'. In this matter, their primary targets are 'God's
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messengers and spiritual leaders of Muslims, whose wisdom, good morality and
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words are most trusted, and who are known to be the most pious, honest and
Joseph (pbuh) was kept in dungeon undeservedly, even
fair'. Telling lies, bending the truth and casting aspersions, hypocrites continuously
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try to prove them wrong in their own feeble minds, and try to make them seen by

Muslims as supposedly 'unfair and unreliable'. In the Qur'an, God informs this

evil method of hypocrites as follows:

Who could do greater wrong than someone who invents lies against God

thus leading people astray without any knowledge? God does not guide the

people of the wrongdoers. (Surat al-An'am, 144)

Throughout history, hypocrites have used these insidious tactics and tried to
stir the same strife in Muslim communities, trying to cast the same aspersions on
the prophets, messengers and God's righteous servants. The Prophet Joseph
(pbuh) was accused with the slander of 'soliciting the wife of the vizier with
whom he stayed in Egypt'; and as a result of the woman's statements based on lies,
he stayed in dungeon for years. This case clearly shows how raving mad people
with hypocritical characters who don't fear God, who don't think that they'll be
brought to account in the hereafter and who perfidiously lie for self-benefits can
become.
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