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THE PROFOUND DARKNESS OF THE HYPOCRITE

Being unable to prevent such activities despite all these efforts and all these
plots enrages the hypocrites. While the hypocrites are perfectly decoded, making
sure that everyone has instant access to this information would make the hypocrites
get into a panic. They feel terrified thinking about the harms all these could bring
them.
Having to listen to the verses of the Qur'an about the signs of the hypocrites
and the explanations in this regard would cause the hypocrites go even madder, be-
come wilder and be seized by fear.
In Surah Nuh, God informs us that every time the Prophet Noah (pbuh) called
the hypocrites and the unbelievers around him to the Qur'an; every time he called
them to be saved from hypocrisy and disbelief, these people 'never wanted to
listen' to this call. Just like it is explained in the verse, when other Muslims com-
municate the morality of the Qur'an to the hypocrites and tell them about their in-

sincerity, as the Prophets did, they start looking for a place to hide, not to hear the

things they are told. If the subject came up during a conversation, they either

open another topic instantly and try to close it or come up with an excuse and

wander away from that environment. If they hear this conversation of the Mus-
lims from another room, they instantly close their doors and turn up the volume
on their stereos or televisions to muffle the sound of their speaking. If they hear
the verses about the hypocrites and their explanations on a television channel,
radio or over the Internet broadcast, they then instantly turn off the TV or turn
down the volume or change the channel. Or they make noise and try to prevent
others from listening to it as well as themselves. In a verse, God informs us about
this attitude of the hypocrites as follows:

When Our signs are recited to such a person, he turns away arrogantly as if

he had not heard, as if there was a great weight in his ears. So give him

news of a painful punishment. (Surah Luqman, 7)

In this verse God says that the hypocrites 'turn away arrogantly' and not listen
to what's being said. The hypocrites deliberately and wittingly avoid listening to
the things that are said. In their twisted minds, they thus engage in an 'act' against
Muslims and try to give the message that 'whatever you do, whatever you keep ex-
plaining, I am not listening to you and I am not influenced by the things you
are talking about'. With this act the hypocrites try to openly demonstrate Muslims
around them that 'they don't want to be saved from hypocrisy,' that 'they have no
intention to be sincere,' and that 'they are determined to continue with their in-
sidious lives.'
What is remarkable here is the foolishness of hypocrites. Hypocrites imagine
that they can handle everything and solve the issue simply by avoiding hearing

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