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THE PROFOUND DARKNESS OF THE HYPOCRITE

in the infinite power of God, are unaware of the fact that God sees and knows
everything they do, while they are plotting against Muslims or sneakily spying on
them. If they are plotting in a place where no one can see or hear them, after taking
their precautions, they will be convinced that no one knows about that. They don't

believe that if there is a secret council of two, God is the third of them. That's why

what makes them concerned is not God knowing 'how treacherous and deceitful'

they are, but people hearing about it. God tells us in a verse that He knows the

secrets that the hypocrites are secretly discussing:

Or do they imagine that We do not hear their secrets and their private talk?

On the contrary Our messengers are right there with them writing it down!

(Surat az-Zukhruf, 80)

In another verse God reveals: "Say: 'Go on mocking! God will expose every-
thing you are afraid of.'" (Surat at-Tawba, 64). As the hypocrites imagine that
they harm Muslims with cunning schemes without anyone being aware of it, God
sees everything they do. And God promised that He would 'expose' all of them.
Everything that the hypocrites are trying to disguise, to keep under covers, God
will expose 'everything they are afraid of' one by one. Everything that they are
running from will come back to haunt them.

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One of the things that give hypocrites away is their 'evil talent in lying'. Since
they have sly brains, they won't lie randomly. When they are to tell a lie, they first
build a mental picture with all the details. They have their excuses ready in their
minds to offer should they ever get caught. That's why it is very difficult to 'catch
the hypocrites in the act'. Even if their plots are clearly diagnosed and revealed,
they will still shamelessly deny them. Even if the Muslims see with their eyes an
evil practice, they will rush to offer dozens of demonic excuses. They tell series of
lies to mask their immoral acts. Since they are articulate and argumentative, they
can easily make up lies on the spot. And when their lies are spotted, their excuse
will always be that 'they only mean well, they only want goodness'. They assert
that everyone is 'prejudiced against them' and that they are therefore always sus-
picious of them.
At the time of our Prophet (pbuh), when the hypocrites built the Masjid al-
Dirar, their sole goal was gathering hypocrites together against the Prophet (pbuh),

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