Page 65 - The Profound Darkness of the Hypocrite

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this would both make them look like a pious person who follows the teachings of

the Qur'an, and such writing or speech would have a positive impact on people's

hearts with regard to faith. Thus, hypocrites despise contributing to the good of

Islam in such a way, since their purpose is 'not to invite people to religion, on the

contrary, to estrange them from it'. Hypocrites find personally preparing a work

based on the Qur'an that will deal a fatal blow to their own evil philosophy as ago-

nizing as death, so to speak. Therefore, if they have no other choice but to prepare

such a work, they certainly include 'hypocritical elements' in the said composition.

For example, if they have to write about God or religion, they add 'elements that

could lead to mischief' in their writing. Thus, the resulting writing becomes a far

cry from an article that is written with a deep love towards God and the Qur'an.

They sneakily add subtle statements between the lines that 'could estrange people

from God, raise questions about religion and Muslims in people's minds -surely

God is beyond such thoughts- cast doubts and misgivings regarding God's justice,

wisdom and Creation, and attempt to legitimize deviant ideologies.' They use a

rather distant and technical language that 'is meant to raise suspicions in people's

subconscious minds, and does not reflect the warmth and mercy of religion."

Each evil element hypocrites use in their writings or speeches are at the same

time 'a diabolical message they convey to their friends among the irreligious'.

This allows hypocrites to clearly get across the message to them implicating that

even though they might seem like a Muslim, they actually do not have faith and do

not share the same beliefs and views with the Muslims, and 'they do not aim to

serve the religion but unbelievers'. Those who read the writings hypocrites sup-

posedly wrote for the good of Islam clearly realize how they are actually far

away from Islam and in opposition to religion.
However, just like it is with all the schemes of hypocrites, this ruse of theirs

fails as well. As Muslims are people with sincere faith in the first place, these
insidious efforts of hypocrites do not have any influence on them. As for unbelievers,
they already share the same mindset with hypocrites, so they are not concerned
with this evil discourse of hypocrites. The only thing hypocrites achieve through

such schemes is 'making insincere friends among unbelievers. Unbelievers, who

seek to make temporary use of hypocrites in line with their interests, get the

message hypocrites try to convey through all these methods and take actions

accordingly to collaborate with them. However, God willing, this is only a fleeting

cooperation based on self-interest. After the friends of hypocrites among unbe-

lievers use them for their self-interest as they see fit, they will dispose of hypocrites,

once again leaving them alone in their dark, evil worlds. Just as in this world, hyp-

ocrites will also taste the loneliness in the hereafter; they will be alone and friendless

when they come before God to account for their schemes. In the end, they will pay

for all their insidious ploys by suffering an eternal agonizing torment in hell.

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