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THE PROFOUND DARKNESS OF THE HYPOCRITE

beautiful feeling God has created as a blessing, as a cover to keep on with their vile-
ness and evil acts, would never be successful with these methods. Every vile, per-
fidious and fraudulent act they commit would certainly return them as torment
both in this world and in the hereafter.

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Hypocrites 'know nothing about love.' Likewise, they have 'no goals to be
loved' either. They know that no one would ever love them because of their rude,
bad-tempered, arrogant and impertinent character. For that reason they have 'no
such tendency to go after love, try to make themselves loved or desire love.'
Nevertheless, love is a 'very important and effective weapon' for the hypocrites.
The mask they use most frequently while carrying on their immorality is 'the mask
of love' because they are very well aware of the importance Muslims attach to love.
They are very well aware of the fact that being in search of love, asking for Muslims'
love is considered as a very reasonable and legitimate demand, a nice attitude that
is encouraged by Muslims, moreover 'a sign of being a Muslims.' With an evil
sharpness, they use this means to carry out their ignominy, satisfy their earthly
desires and attain superiority.
In line with this demonic plan, when they have to give an account for the im-
moral acts they have done, they use the topic of love to cover up their immoralities
telling lies such as "I did so, to make myself loveable," "I said that to earn your
love," "I behaved like that because I love you." They claim that they have 'good
intentions' and even if there is a mistake in their behaviors, the real reason that lies

beneath it is always their 'search for love.' Thus they claim that they carry out

many immoral acts such as 'being vexed, losing face, sulking, not speaking and

grimacing' only to be loved. In this manner they try to give their filthy and sly
souls a 'so-called innocent' appearance.

In the Qur'an, God draws attention to hypocrites' 'habit of carrying out im-

moral acts by using goodness as a pretext':

When they are told, "Do not cause corruption on the earth," they say, "We

are only putting things right." No indeed! They are the corrupters, but they
are not aware of it. (Surat al-Baqara, 11-12)

God informs us in these verses that when these people with sick souls are told
not to cause corruption on the earth they would reply saying, "We are only putting

things right." When the hypocrites are asked why they committed such ignominy,

such vileness, they only come up with fake excuses saying, "We merely want to ex-
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