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THE PROFOUND DARKNESS OF THE HYPOCRITE

of hypocrites, for that reason that resentment is exhibited as a nonsensical talk of
pessimism all the time. Even if they want to do so, hypocrites can never praise an
environment where Muslims are present or appreciate their belongings, beauties
and the holy light manifested on them. This is because hypocrites truly suffer real
pain when complimenting Muslims or appreciating the beauties they have. Even
saying, 'you are beautiful' to a Muslim would virtually inflict incredible pain on
hypocrites and make them feel like dying. Even though hypocrites have to use flat-
tering words from time to time in order to look sweet to Muslims, they just do so
out of obligation since it means a deep state of grief for hypocrites.

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As noted in previous chapters, hypocrites are with Muslims not because of
their faith in God or their desire to live by the morals of the Qur'an. Hypocrites

want to both benefit from the blessings Muslims have and at the same time
strengthen unbelievers by transferring intelligence they have gathered about Mus-
lims. In other words, they have completely different intentions and goals from Mus-

lims.
Muslims live solely to gain God's approval and love. For that reason, they
always strive to act in a way that is pleasing to God in every single moment of their

lives from morning till night and make their choices in favor of what is right, good

and beautiful. They make their choices as per their conscience on every matter, not

going in for their own comfort, egoistic desires or personal profits. God informs of

this hardworking character of Muslims in the Qur'an with the following verse,

"Those who turn away from worthless talk" (Surat al-Muminun, 3).

Yet, hypocrites persist their lives only for making themselves happy and pro-

tecting their interests in the best possible way. Therefore, they only work hard if

their profit is at stake. If they have no personal gain, hypocrites never run them-

selves into the ground or put on effort for anyone. That is why hypocrites never

want to help Muslims when they are together with believers. Since hypocrites have

no aim for 'gaining God's pleasure', they consider 'making efforts for something

that will not pay them back materially' to be severe 'foolishness'. For this reason,

serving Islam gives them immense pain. Since hypocrites hate God –surely God

is beyond that- they never want to serve in the way of God. And in a similar way,

because they also detest the Prophet (pbuh), they abstain from paying service

to religion. Thus, due to their hostility to Muslims, they do not want to help

Muslims either.
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