Page 209 - The Profound Darkness of the Hypocrite

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of those against believers and become aware of their difference from Muslims, thus
they act accordingly.

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In order to praise themselves and give a superior image to themselves than

Muslims in their opinion, hypocrites always 'pretend as if they are really smart

and know-it-all types'. In order to gain the admiration of unbelievers, hypocrites

incessantly endeavor to increase their knowledge and culture so that they can use

this know-how as an element of superiority and arrogance among Muslims. However,

Muslims do not care 'who is more intellectual, on the contrary, they only care

about who is more religious, who loves God more and who is more devoted in

abiding by the morals of the Qur'an'. Yet, hypocrites are unaware of this truth be-

cause of their claims of arrogance. They assume they can prove themselves to be

superior to Muslims if they have a know-all approach and pretend being smart

when they are with believers.

Hypocrites display this lack of morality mainly to the prophets, to the mes-

sengers or people who take the responsibility of spiritual leadership of Muslims.

This is because Muslims revere these persons by attaching great value to them

and consider them as spiritual leaders to whom they trust based on their wisdom

and conscience. Hypocrites, however, attempt to present these opinion leaders as

'weak and lacking knowledge' to Muslims so that they can break the bonds of

trust, respect and devotion entrusted to them. Whereas, God strengthens His

prophets, messengers and guiding servants in terms of wisdom and intellect, and

grants them a 'unique prudence and foresight.' Therefore, no matter how hard

hypocrites venture, it is impossible for them to succeed in their perpetrations

against God's messengers. However, hypocrites are ignorant of this very law God

has decreed and that is why they persist in their endeavor against Muslims.

Usually hypocrites prefer staying away from Muslims and spending time alone.

They never would like to be in the atmosphere of friendship and gathering of be-

lievers. On the other hand, they constantly pursuit ways 'to show them how knowl-

edgeable and superior they are and to accentuate their precedence'. Therefore,

whenever they come close to believers, they try to show off as 'a know-it-all' person

in every sentence and use all means to be a 'smart aleck'.

It is noteworthy that almost anything they know consists of insignificant details.

Their assumption that knowing all this information will make them superior reveals

'how simple-minded' hypocrites are.

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