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their twisted mentality and beliefs peculiar to unbelievers into the minds of
people.
However hypocrites are not aware how strong Muslims' belief, love, trust
and commitment to God is. They cannot comprehend that Muslims have absolute
faith and trust in God, the Qur'an and the commandments in the Qur'an as well as

in destiny, in hereafter and in God's eternally beautiful morality. Therefore, they
never foresee that this strong personality of Muslims cannot ever be shaken by
a few hypocritical words. All these devious tactics employed by hypocrites, such
as their exhaustive efforts to spread the mischief and speaking words that give rise
to doubts in the hearts, make it easy for the Muslims to realize that the person they
are dealing with is a hypocrite with a diseased soul and weak faith and under the
control of satan. Catching this sneaky side and evil character of theirs is a blessing
for the Muslims.
Another quality of hypocrites is that 'they try to spread fear into the hearts of
Muslims'. Hypocrites always report supposedly troublesome news from the unbe-
lievers in order to 'disturb and agitate the believers in their feeble minds'. They

think they can 'frighten Muslims, upset and discourage them' considering the

unbelievers and their power behind them. Hypocrites try to impose on Muslims

the idea that unbelievers are more powerful than Muslims and there will soon be

developments against the Muslims. They put an effort to unsettle Muslims by high-

lighting the endeavours of the unbelievers against the Muslims with fearful, sinister

and faithless words such as 'Oh no!', 'We are devastated', 'It's all over'; in short

hypocrites try to make Muslims uneasy. While doing so, they always try to adopt a

tone that is similar to Muslims as if they were religious Muslims themselves, and

they scatter evil elements they intends to spread within the threads of their speech.

However, the true belivers never get affected by this malign indoctrination

of hypocrites. Muslims believe in destiny and they believe in our Lord, the Creator

of destiny whom they truly devote themselves; and as a result, they fear none but

God. God informs us about this truth in one verse:

Those to whom people said, 'The people have gathered against you, so fear
them.' But that merely increased their belief and they said, 'God is enough
for us and the Best of Guardians.' (Surah Al 'Imran, 173)

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It is very important for hypocrites to show off to the people around them. This

is because they live merely for the sake of this world. And 'showing off' is considered

'highly valuable' and 'influential to gain respect' among those who are closely at-

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