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a new opportunity to carry out evil acts. However, despite this relentless campaign
of vileness by the hypocrites, they always fail at their attempts to strip the Muslims
of their happiness and joy. All the evilness comes back to haunt them, and condemn
them to a lonely, loveless, sad life, without a single true friend or a person who
loves them.
Our Lord explains in a verse that hypocrites 'will pay for their evil acts with a
painful punishment in the hereafter' which "will suffice them":
God has promised the men and women of the hypocrites and unbelievers
the fire of hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. It will suffice them. God
has cursed them. They will have everlasting punishment. (Surat at-Tawba,
68)

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One of the most definitive qualities of Muslims that sets them apart from the
unbelievers is that they constantly praise 'the name of our Lord', both verbally and
in their hearts, because they love God more than anyone else. Believers know that
God creates everything and everyone, has the sole control over everything and
everyone, and that He has the sole and infinite power. They also know that no one
can either help or hurt them unless God wills so and that God will enrich whomever
He wills and restrict His blessings for whomever He wishes. For this reason, Muslims
turn to God for every desire in their hearts. When they have a problem, knowing
that help can come only if God wills it, they turn to Him and appeal only to Him
for help. When they wish to obtain something, they know that only God can make
it happen, so they pray to Him. When something good happens, they know that it
happened by the grace of God, so they give thanks to Him. When they are saved
from something bad or when they escape a disaster, they also know that they were
protected only because of God's love for them and therefore give thanks to Him for
this blessing.
This deep 'love for God' that the Muslims have is something hypocrites do not
have. Since they have no love in their hearts, they don't 'remember God' in their
words either. They don't believe that God has the sole power and that His power is
infinite -Surely God is above that. They assume anything good that happens is be-
cause of themselves, deep states of the world, demonic circles and other hypocrites,
as far more 'powerful and invincible' than God -Surely God is above that. For this
reason, they believe that they themselves or the deep powers have made anything
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