📘 ❞ The Signs of the Hypocrites ❝ كتاب ــ عائض القرني اصدار 2005

عن كتاب The Signs of the Hypocrites:
Surely, praise belongs to Allah. We praise Him and seek
His help. And we seek refuge in Him from the evil of
ourselves and our misdeeds. He whom Allah guides,
none can mislead but He whom He lets go astray, none
can guide. And I bear testimony that there is no God but
Allah who is One, who has no partner. And I bear
witness that Muhammad is His slave and His
Messenger
{O you who believe! Fear Allah as He should be feared,

10 The Signs of the Hypocrites
and die not save you be Muslims. (3.102)}
{O mankind! Fear your Lord who created you from a
single person, and from him He cheated his mate, and
from the twain He spread abroad many men and
women. So fear Allah by whom you demand (your
rights) of one another, and fear (breaking) kinship of
wombs. Surely Allah is ever watchful over you. (4:1)}
{Q you who believe! Fear Allah and speak words
straight to the point. He will set right your deeds for
you and will forgive your sins. And whosoever obeys
Allah and His Messenger, he indeed has gained a
mighty triumph. (33:70-71)}
To proceed! The best of words is the Book of Allah and the
best of paths is the path of Muhammad 0 . And the worst of
affairs are innovations in religion, and every innovation is a
bid'ah,® and every bid'ah is straying from the path, and every
straying leads to hell.
When Allah sent His Prophet 0 and he announced his
mission, some people rejected him and some believed. Of the
latter kind, some merely put one garb of faith without really
believing so that they caused mischief. They are called the
Munafiq or hypocrites. A hypocrite is two-faced and such
people are the worst of mankind. The Prophet 0 said about
them, "Surely, the worst of men are the two-faced. Who come
to these with a face and to those with another face."® The
hypocrite will lean towards that which seems profitable and is
the most dangerous of men. The history of the Muslims bears
witness that they have always suffered at the hands of the
hypocrites, and it is the same story today. If a ruler is a
hypocrite then Muslims suffer a set back and decline. The
Prophet 0 warned the Muslims of the hypocrite very often.
He said (as narrated by Umar Khattab 4k "What I fear most
for my Ummah is every eloquent-tongued hypocrite."®
This is why the Sahabah and their successors in every
generation were ever wary of hypocrisy lest it grow in their
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0 Bukhari # 6058, 7179, Muslim # 100-2526, Tirmidhis # 2025, Abu
. Dawud # 4782, Ahmad 21307 (narrated by Abu Hurayrah 4®)
0 Jami Saghir # 239, Ahmad # 137, Foryabi # 23.

The sign of a believer is that he understands the Religion and is constantly increasing his
knowledge of certain matters and benefits and he is covetous of all that is good, as well as the gatherings wherein it is disseminated. The hypocrite, however, completely turns away. When the people talk in a gathering about matters to do with the Prayer or worship, it is to him as if they are speaking in a different language. A useful work in current times when Hypocrisy has made deep roads in the Muslim Society.