Page 195 - The Profound Darkness of the Hypocrite

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In this way, they will Hypocrites do not get shaken at all when their lies are disclosed or when their
h game plan is interrupted. They go on acting corruptly as they lack wisdom and
sense and because their mind and soul have become foul and wicked.
When the Muslims uncover the lies of hypocrites and say "You lied"; hypocrites
start telling a new lie to continue their game. They immediately swear before the
Presence of God. In Surat at-Tawba, God emphasizes that hypocrites swear falsely
so much that it becomes a habit of lying and He warns the believers against this
evil game of hypocrites:

As for those who have set up a mosque, causing harm and out of disbelief,

to create division between the believers, and in readiness for those who

previously made war on God and His Messenger, they will swear, 'We only

desired the best.' But God bears witness that they are truly liars. (Surat at-

Tawba, 107)

When hypocrites are reminded that swearing falsely in the name of God has

consequences in the Sight of God, hypocrites start crying and say, 'You do not

believe me, you make false accusations against me.' They immediately pretend as

if they are really offended and oppressed. Especially when Muslims talk to hypocrites

alone, hypocrites immediately start telling comprehensive lies and they continue to

spread these lies among the believers.

Another characteristic of hypocrites is that they have a really strong memory.

However, they never remember the kindness, blessings, generosity shown towards

them. Instead, they continuously make a record of imaginary evil deeds, delu-

sional acts of brutality and cruelty. Whenever they come across something that is

against their interests, they pick up every single detail from their foul memory

archive so that they can use them to falsely accuse the believers. And then, they

slander by talking about these imaginary material in their schizophrenic mind.

Even so, they try to put forward their lies as facts by talking about them in a

chronological order just to cite as evidence. For instance; they say, 'you said so

and so to me when we were talking at so and so location on so and so date.'

When believers say 'no such conversation took place'; in their feeble minds hyp-
ocrites make fun of the believers' memory in an arrogant and impudent way and

they insist on their lie. By doing so, they convince themselves that they are superior
to the Prophet (pbuh) and other Muslims and that they have attenuated Muslims'
explanation - the prophets and the Muslims are beyond that description.
God has uncovered this calumniator, false swearing, crier, skeptic, obster-
perous, fearful and paranoid character of hypocrites in many verses in the Qur'an.
These verses are great blessings for Muslims to train themselves and thus to avoid

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