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A D N A N O K TA R ( H A R U N Y A H Y A )

into trouble with the plans and traps they have set, but in reality that trouble sur-
rounds them. Every word they say, each association they make with unbelievers
against Muslims, pushes them into a dark chasm. They feel much deeper humiliation
and pain, which pierces them with every treacherous action they take. In short,
each vileness, trap or plan comes back to them like a boomerang.
This is just a small part of the torment for hypocrites in this worldly life. After
this, eternal suffering awaits them in the afterlife. God warns of how hypocrites'
trap will surround them in the next world:
When those who disbelieve were plotting against you to imprison you or

kill you or expel you: they were plotting and God was plotting, but God is
the Best of Plotters. (Surah Al-Anfal, 30)

Hypocrites struggle against Muslims all their lives but this struggle never ends

as they expect. Every treacherous act they take against Muslims to make themselves

endearing to unbelievers causes them to be insulted time and time again. Behaving

like a Muslim among Muslims but drawing a blank, defending a system without

believing it, praising God with a heavy heart or performing prayer unwillingly in-

creases his pain ten, a hundred, even a thousand times more. And this causes inde-

finable anger and hatred. Finally, this spiral of fury brings about their dramatic

end. Day by day, the hatred that covers their souls consumes and disorders them

and drives them insane. Dying with grudges and anger is the doom of a hypocrite.

God tells us that the cause of death for hypocrites is this anger and hatred:

There you are, loving them when they do not love you, even though you believe

in all the Books. When they meet you, they say, 'We believe.' But when they leave

they bite their fingers out of rage against you. Say, 'Die in your rage.' God knows

what your hearts contain. (Surah Al Imran, 119)

God clearly described the end of hypocrites. Every hypocrite's destiny is to

live the demeaned and despised life that causes this anger, and ultimately drown-

ing and dying in that anger.

But it should not be forgotten that the door of repentance is always wide

open for every person. God's forgiveness expands to hypocrites as well. Even a

person who was once a hypocrite can be saved from this dirty swamp after realizing

his errors one day and clinging to the religion of God, regardless of the sins he has

committed.

But hypocrites who are enemies of religion and God, and who are determined

and insistent upon treachery, will face hell with all its fury and hatred and continue

living there in a pit, suffering from humiliation and despisement.

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