Page 287 - The Profound Darkness of the Hypocrite

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hidden nature of hypocrites. Hypocrites are beings that can never be fully diagnosed.
Along with this, God also draws attention with this verse to the insidious and
If a definitive diagnosis could be made, Muslims would never keep these people
among them; they would isolate them and not befriend them. A hypocrite is "a
manifestation of satan." This being the case, just like Muslims avoid satan and
try to keep their distance from him, if they were assured of the hypocrites, they
would assume the same attitude. But because they can never be definitively sure

about it, no matter how suspicious Muslims may be about people with the
character of a hypocrite, they can never arrive at a certain conclusion and they
continue to keep these people in their community.
This is a special situation God creates as a requisite of Muslims' trial in this
world. The presence of a person with hypocritical character in a Muslim community
surely brings many hardships along with it, against which Muslims must persevere.

Although Muslims suspect certain people to be hypocrites, they patiently continue
to approach them with the morality of the Qur'an, in the hope that one day they
may be rightly guided.

However, each of these hardships leads to great blessings and beauties for

the Muslims, both in this world and the hereafter. That is because a hypocrite,

at the same time, is an important part of the Muslim's training in this world.
Witnessing flaws in the character of the hypocrite becomes instrumental for
Muslims to be able to reconsider their own character, as a result of which they
become more devoted Muslims with even deeper faith and more perfect morality.

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Since the beginning of history, God has created good and evil together and has
wanted people to choose the right one by employing their conscience. No doubt if
God willed so, He could have created the world as a place abounding with goodness
and beauties alone. He might have never created evil. But with much hidden
wisdom, God created good and evil together.
Satan, the advocate and leader of evil, struggles to make wickedness and
perversion dominate the world by inspiring his own philosophy in unbelievers and
hypocrites. Each hypocrite and unbeliever is a follower and soldier of satan.
Upon the instructions they receive from their leader, they make efforts to make
sincere believers who advocate a swerve from the true path and turn them into
followers of satan.

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