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THE PROFOUND DARKNESS OF THE HYPOCRITE

People who live in ignorance refer to such behavior hypocrites display as 'syco-
phancy' among themselves. This is a common characteristic seen among people
who have a tendency towards unbelief and hypocrisy. Thus, both sides treat each
other with a mutual 'perspective of self-interest'. While hypocrites seek to derive
personal gain from people they deal with through the sneaky tactics they employ;

it is quite clear that unbelievers whom hypocrites try to ingratiate themselves with
also formulate their own plans on how they can exploit hypocrites.
At this point, the only way to deter hypocrites from such hypocritical and
sneaky endeavors is to expose their insidious schemes aimed at the interest
groups they wish to exploit and demonstrate them how weak the people or the
organizations they try to get in touch with actually are in comparison to God's
infinite power. It leaves hypocrites extremely disappointed to think that the groups

once they hoped to derive tremendous personal benefits from fall from grace.

Seeing the popular and well-known people, the prestigious organizations they

once held in high esteem turning into ordinary entities causes hypocrites to

back down. Losing any respect they feel towards these people, hypocrites realize

that they will not be able to gain any personal benefit from them. Therefore, when

they are faced with such a situation, they abandon their endeavor to ingratiate

themselves with these individuals or organizations.

However, this is surely a temporary and short-term hesitance. At the first

opportunity they get, through the inspiration from satan and their evil intelligence,

hypocrites will certainly engage in new insidious activities to find a way to further

their relations with unbelievers.

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