Page 233 - The Profound Darkness of the Hypocrite

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much time. We will burn it up and then scatter it as dust into the sea. (Surah
Ta Ha, 95-97)

As it is explained in the verses, the Prophet Moses (pbuh) expelled Samiri

from his tribe saying "the punishment you deserve in this world is to live un-

touchable -alone- until the end of your life." With the story of Samiri, God draws

attention to 'the hypocrites' greed for this world, to their ambition to hoard

goods and to the fact that they can do anything including theft, fraud and

murder to attain these goals.' Samiri who had been a member of Egyptian deep

state under the rule of the Pharaoh, was a hypocrite who was accustomed to theft,

robbery, usurpation, immorality, lies and dishonor even in those days.

However, Samiri couldn't attain any results with his ruses and villainy; his

greed for greatness caused him to fall into disgrace and lose everything he had.

After Samiri was expelled from the Prophet Moses' (pbuh) tribe, he lived alone

until the end of his life. He was humiliated, degraded and despised because of the

immoralities he perpetrated and he lost everything he had and ended up alone.

This was only the retribution he received in this worldly life. In the hereafter,

as the requisite of God's infinite justice, Samiri and all other hypocrites who

choose insincerity like he did, will certainly have to answer for the vileness they

have carried out.

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T THEIR TRUE COLORS INSTANTLY IN TIMES OF DIFFICULTY
Hypocrites are very fond of their comfort. Since they are insanely attached to
this world, they are terrified of death. If all the conditions and means are in their
favor, then they act along with the Muslims. So long as their interests are not
harmed, they lay low and stay small among Muslims even if it is hard for them to
do so; they even face up to doing many things they do not want to do for the sake
of appearing to be one of them. They do not want to perform their daily prayers
but they do. They do not want to do good to Muslims, but even though it pains
them to do so, they do good when the situation calls for it. They even occasionally
serve for them if they come up to that point. But if there is any pressure, difficulty
or hardship on the Muslims by unbelievers, they instantly start to make 'gain and
loss calculations'. They consider what they would be gaining and what they would
be losing if they appear to be with the Muslims. And they take into account that the
possible hardships awaiting Muslims would more or less, yet definitely touch them
as well. That is one of the greatest fears of a hypocrite; because it is themselves that
they value more than anything in the world and this would hurt them. Right at this
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