Page 63 - The Profound Darkness of the Hypocrite

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However, God informs in the Qur'an that He preserves Islam through the fol-
lowing verse, "It is We Who have sent down the Reminder (Qur'an) and We Who
will preserve it." (Surat al-Hijr, 9). God will safeguard the religion of truth until
the Day of Judgment. And with the verse of the Qur'an saying, "They desire to ex-
tinguish God's Light with their mouths but God will perfect His Light, though
unbelievers hate it" (Surat as-Saff, 8), God forewarns the believers of the attempts
of unbelievers and hypocrites to corrupt and degenerate Islam through their
diabolical speeches. God reminds hypocrites and unbelievers will never succeed
in doing so. Despite all the ruses of hypocrites, God will make His religion prevail
over all the superstitious beliefs and philosophies and establish the moral values of
Islam over the entire world.

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One of the issues that galls and pains hypocrites the most is remembering and
praising God. On the contrary, praising the name of God is one of the issues that
Muslims regard with the utmost care and attention. Therefore, people who are
lacking in that sense do not escape the notice of Muslims. So as to not be exposed
and revealed, hypocrites have to occasionally attend conversations, albeit unwillingly,
where God is praised and remembered. However, they still try to make use of such
situations in line with their evil schemes. While they act as if they are remembering
God, in fact, they subtly promote the beliefs, ideologies and philosophies against
God through the evil details they include in their speech. For example, when
they begin their speech that is supposedly intended to praise God, instead of de-
picting God in the way that God depicts Himself in the Qur'an, they depict Him
philosophically. They attempt to interpret God not through the Qur'an, but
through logic- surely God is above such thoughts. They emphasize their faith in
the power of unbelievers and science instead of the power of God. For example,
they try to explain the Creation of the universe philosophically instead of basing
their explanations on the Qur'an.
Being a 'science snob' in its strictest sense, hypocrites 'ground none of their
explanations upon the Qur'an.' In their speeches, they draw upon the snobbish
definitions of the scientists who are in denial of God's Creation, and convoluted
assertions of philosophy. Surely, science is a great blessing, which is a guide to
comprehend the greatness of God. However, hypocrites speak, surmising that
science is -God is above such thoughts- independent from God and is a greater
power which is certainly a fallacy.
Furthermore, instead of explaining the existence and Oneness of God through
the verses of the Qur'an, hypocrites speak with a tone that is completely unrelated
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