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THE PROFOUND DARKNESS OF THE HYPOCRITE

wives are devoted to them with great love and passion, and that they wouldn't want
to leave them not for a moment neither in this world nor in the hereafter, turn in to
an agonizing torment for hypocrites. Therefore, the hypocrites do their best to be
able to steal their happiness, joy, love and friendship. Hypocrites want to create
unrest, edginess and disturbance between Muslims and thereby steal their blessings
and beauties by playing evil ruses, telling vile lies, adopting a quarrelsome attitude
and by casting aspersions about them.
Another blessing that hypocrites want to steal from Muslims is 'time'. Believers
spare every moment of their lives in elucidating God's greatness, beauty of morality
of Islam and thereby doing auspicious activities. This is something that hypocrites
hate the most and try to prevent with all their might. Therefore 'they want to steal
their energy and time which they would spare to auspicious activities and
pleasant environments' by causing trouble to stall them off and trying to make
them busy with trivial things as much as they can.
However, as stated in the verse that reads; "... God will not give the unbelievers
any way against the believers." (Surat an-Nisa, 141), God will not let this ruse of
the hypocrites be successful. With their superior wisdom, perception and foresight
stemming from their faith, Muslims see hypocrites' aims and immoralities, and de-
fuse their traps with the morality of the Qur'an. Hypocrites' efforts on stealing
Muslims' time, peace, happiness, joy, love and friendship result in failure, unrest
and heart pain on their behalf.

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One of the most infamous hypocrites who made history with his theft is

'Samiri'. Samiri is one of the Israelites whose name is mentioned in the Qur'an

and who lived in the era of the Prophet Moses (pbuh). The name 'Samiri' is an

adjective-noun derived from the root 'shemer' which is a word that means 'stranger,

foreigner' in the ancient Egyptian language.

Samiri was a 'sculptor and molding craftsman' whose family and entourage

were gold craftsman and who was famous for manufacturing golden calf statues in
Egypt. Samiri was firstly preparing a mold for these calves and then casting gold on
these molds to make golden calves and he was making money selling them. He was
very adept and talented on this and other artistic activities. Another feature of the
calves he manufactured was that they were designed as musical instruments at the
same time. These calf statues which were placed on high places were making a
noise like a 'calf lowing' with the wind blowing on them. The noises coming from
these statues, which were made leaving holes on front and back, were giving the
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