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THE PROFOUND DARKNESS OF THE HYPOCRITE

secretly while they are still living among Muslims. Hypocrites would draw far
more enjoyment from deceiving them while still living among them. Furthermore,

while they are still living among Muslims they will have far more types of means

to carry out their vileness, their ignominy and infamy. They have tens of

different angles to work with: their voices, faces, gazes, mimics, looks and

grumpiness. Their means to carry out all these when they are away from

Muslims would be far less.

On the other hand, inwardly, hypocrites have a great desire 'to go and side

with the unbelievers as soon as possible and to be as far as possible from

everything that would remind them of God and Islam'. Because only then could

they be alone with satan, and they believe that only then could they attain the

devilish happiness they desire.

Every moment they spend with Muslims, they bear witness to their joy, their

peace, their unbreakable devotion and passionate love for one another. They are

consumed with jealousy and this is a source of constant pain for them. And

because of all those, they feel a great yearning with a desire to run away from them

as soon as possible.

Consequently, hypocrites live among Muslims, constantly calculating these

aspects and they live 'agonizing over these gain and loss calculations'. When

they believe that they have caused the greatest harm they can muster to Muslims

from the inside, and that they have secured their place among the unbelievers

to their liking, hypocrites will then start to implement their plans for leaving

Muslims. To do that they need to have a guarantee that their gains from the un-

believers will exceed their current gains from Muslims, and also they need to

have sufficiently harmed the Muslims from within. Unless all of these conditions

are met simultaneously, hypocrites will not leave Muslims and will continue with

their insidious plots until they actually attain these means.

There is a very important point that the hypocrites are unaware of while

making all these calculations and devising all these devious plans. Both hypocrites'

staying among Muslims and their leaving would be auspicious for Muslims in

any case. Both their staying among Muslims and their leaving is a blessing from

God for Muslims. Muslims' efforts to make religion prevail, despite the devious

activities of such evil creatures, would increase the reward they would attain at the

Sight of God. The departure of the hypocrites from the Muslim community, on the

other hand, would create an amazing cleansing, enlightening and abundance for

Muslims. Consequently, whatever the hypocrites do, all their evil efforts eventually

work in favor of the Muslims and every insidious effort they make end up aus-

piciously in Muslims' favor.
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