Page 293 - The Profound Darkness of the Hypocrite

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God. Meanwhile, everyone better understands that conscious Muslims of sound
and open mind with moral perfection are a great blessing compared to people
with the character of hypocrites. Hence, Muslims embrace the Qur'an even more.
They always bring up signs of hypocrisy, perform a much better analysis of these
signs thus it becomes instrumental for all Muslims to have a deeper understand-
ing of hypocrites. Muslims constantly remember God, read the Qur'an and carry
out activities explaining the character of hypocrites to people. In this way, they
also communicate the message of Islam.

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He said, 'My Lord, because You misled me, I will make things on the earth

seem good to them and I will mislead them all, every one of them, except

Your servants among them who are sincere.' (Surat al-Hijr: 39-40)

In the verses above, God informs us that satan may take all forms to make all
the people in the world veer away from the true path. Until Judgment Day, satan
will make every effort to misguide people without making any differentiation among

them.

However as the same verse relates, "except Your servants among them who
are sincere", satan will have no impact over those who are sincere in their love

of God. Consequently, one has the opportunity to get rid of the influence of

satan at any period in his life, no matter who he is - a hypocrite, an idolater or a

denier - if he so truly desires, his determination to be sincere shall be sufficient to

eliminate the impact of the satan upon him.

This being the case, Muslims should never forget that a person always has the

ability to repent before he faces death, even if he exhibits too many signs of a hyp-

ocrite, and no matter how treacherous or immoral he might have been previously.

That is why Muslims never approach anyone thinking, "He once committed such

and such wrongdoings and sins, so redemption is no longer possible for him."

They know that God may forgive everyone who sincerely repents and proceeds

down the path of righteousness. For this reason, in presence of anyone they suspect

to be a hypocrite, Muslims will approach him with this high level of consciousness

and conscience brought about by the morality of the Qur'an.

Otherwise, it would be quite easy for Muslims to distance themselves from

anyone suspected to be treacherous and vile and thus live their lives at ease.

However, this person has the possibility of "being remorseful of his mistakes and
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