Page 221 - 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 )

Whenever Muslims are pleased with a certain activity carried out among
them, the hypocrites, with the nudging of satan, go and pester those who are
praised for these activities. It is of the utmost importance for the hypocrites to
criticize those who carry out the activities that are widely discussed and consid-
ered as most important at the time and to stress that they are better than them.
For instance, if someone has written a good article and has been influential
in communicating the message of Islam, the hypocrites instantly start looking
for ways to criticize that article somehow. If someone else has decorated a place
very elegantly, they instantly use a specific tone to underline that it is unfash-
ionable and tasteless. Another one may have made a video and used high-end
technology and high quality images for it: Hypocrites would immediately adopt
a patronizing attitude looking down on them in their own feeble minds and
with a contemptuous and scornful style saying that these are old-fashioned tech-

niques and ordinary images. Then, with their evil but very feeble minds, they go
on to the second phase of their atrocious games. They start saying that they know
about those activities they have constantly been criticizing, reproaching and

finding deficient and imperfect, more than everyone else and that they could

do them much more effectively using the most perfect techniques. When there

is a new activity to be carried out, they instantly jump in and say that they are

willing to do it. For instance, if there is a water well to be opened, hypocrites move

forward and say, "Let me do this." In this way, they give the impression of being

useful and by undertaking a work that is sure to succeed, they think they will

become 'the architect of that success'.

But of course, the hypocrites' intention is never to make an effort and spend

time for such a work and thus to do something to strengthen Islam and Muslims.

Their only intention is to try to present themselves as superior to others by

being abhorrent, creating unrest and making a fuss. As a matter of fact, when

they are told, "Alright, if you are better than everyone else, you may undertake

this work," people see that they would not lift a finger and would not bring about

the desired result. That is because in this way, they would have already achieved

what they wanted all along. In a way that everyone would hear and know, it would

be said out loud that 'he is the most knowledgable, most competent one in this.

And that is why he was assigned that task.' And thereby he would supposedly be

proving his superiority. Even with these words alone, he would be gaining the

prestige he desires and when he encounters successful people, he would have ob-

tained the ammunition he could use against them.

As you see, like every other game of the hypocrites, this one is also 'hollow

and foolish'. It is obvious that Muslims will not form an opinion about a person

with a single word without the sincere effort and good work to back it up. But the

hypocrites imagine that Muslims will 'think highly of them and will be immensely

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