Page 213 - The Profound Darkness of the Hypocrite

A D N A N O K TA R ( H A R U N Y A H Y A )

In their own feeble minds, reaping benefits from opportunities of Muslims
and doing nothing for God's sake, is considered as 'a great profit' by hypocrites. To
pretend to be one of the Muslims and not to be unmasked, sometimes they may
lend a hand with a few things as a show-off from time to time. Even when they do
it as a formality and just as a pretense, they go through terrible misery. In truth,
they do not ever desire to help Muslims even a bit.
God describes this immorality of hypocrites as, "Leave them to eat and enjoy
themselves. Let false hope divert them. They will soon know." (Surat al-Hijr, 3)
In accordance with this view, hypocrites abstain from undertaking any respon-
sibility that would be for the good of Islam or to the benefit of Muslims. They
watch believers at a distance as if they are 'tourists' or complete strangers. With
this attitude, they intend to give the message to Muslims, 'This is your religion,

your cause, and I have no interest in it. So, I am simply an observer'.
Of course, they never misbehave openly for whole world to see as hypocrites

always come up with an evil excuse for whatever they do. This is because hypocrites

cannot explicitly get across their mind saying 'I do not wish to serve in the way of
God' while Muslims work in favor of Islam in the most active way and without stop

day and night. For that reason, hypocrites have to find an excuse for turning away
from making efforts in the way of religion as well as for their laziness. To this end,
they make use of different tactics every single time and they are very meticulous in

choosing these sly ploys so that 'they cannot be proven the contrary'.

For instance, when hypocrites see Muslims working on something important

altogether, they immediately vanish in case they could be asked for help and

they would be obliged to give support. Sometimes, they avoid striving for God's

approval pretending 'as if they were sick'. And at other times, hypocrites put on an

act of "having fallen asleep" and not being unaware of the circumstances. This is

another ruse of hypocrites to avoid helping Muslims. At times hypocrites remain

as observers with claims that 'they are really tired' although they have done

nothing exhausting. While Muslims are busy working, they pick up a remote con-

troller in their hands and spend hours pointlessly doing nothing but surfing on

TV channels. Hypocrites simply wait for time to pass by watching the street or

the neighborhood. In addition to being of no use to Muslims, hypocrites try to

interfere in their efforts to slow Muslims down or delay their work. They try to

keep them busy by talking about some irrelevant task they are engaged in just

for their personal gain. Hypocrites set out to offend Muslims by asking completely

irrelevant and unnecessary questions. They even make fake demands just to tie

them down and say 'they are stuck and need help'. And this way hypocrites want

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