Page 247 - 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 )

Hypocrites have signs that give them away: "Their greeting is a curse. They feed
on extortion and plunder. Their prize is deceit and profit. They rarely visit mosques.

They hardly arrive at the mosque before the end of prayers. They are arrogant.

They neither love nor be loved. They are quiet like a log by night, noisy by
day." (Imam Ahmad and Bazzar, Jam'ul Fawaid, Hadith No: 8110)

ADNAN OKTAR: "They neither love nor be loved." Hear this?
They cannot love, and they are not loved. But they pretend
to love. They pretend to want love, but actually they don't

know how to love. They use 'love' only to cause problems.

"I love, so why don't I get this? I love, so why am I not given
that? Why do you love that person and not me?" They
exploit love for their immoral deeds …
... No one really loves the hypocrites. And hypocrites don't
love anyone; they just pretend to love. They pretend to be

interested, pretend to love. But in truth, hypocrites love no
one else other than themselves. They are full of hatred.
They don't like anyone, but they pretend to love. That's why

the believers cannot love such people; it is a natural

reaction. Everyone hates the hypocrites. Since they know
that they are not loved, it's easier for them to carry out their evil acts. (A9 TV,
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they need to maintain contact with in order to further their interests. The scale of
the lovelessness of the hypocrites is so immense that they cannot even love chil-

dren, flowers, trees, animals; in short they love none of the beauties God creates.
Hypocrites do not have a sense of respect either since respect is the most
beautiful expression of love and the value one attaches to another. Since hypocrites
don't value Muslims, they have neither love nor respect for them. God describes
this feature of the hypocrites in the Qur'an, by calling them 'gross and coarse':

But do not obey any vile swearer of oaths, any backbiter, slandermonger,

impeder of good, evil aggressor, gross, coarse and furthermore, despicable,

(Surat al-Qalam, 10-13)

With these verses, God commands Muslims to shun from all sorts of immorality
and attitude that is against Islam. The fact that hypocrites are 'gross and coarse'
makes it clear that they try to solve their problems not with love, respect and kind-
ness; but with aggression and hostility, by fighting and yelling and throwing tantrums.
For instance, at the time of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), the hypocrites called
out to the Prophet (pbuh) from behind doors, raised their voices or tried to come
to the fore in his presence. Such behavior stems from the hypocrites' gross, coarse
and impertinent characters. They deal with everything 'with aggression and crude

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