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Lesson: 21 Discussion of Hypocrisy & Hypocrites continued
Some Important
Points
1 - Muslims
should remember that the danger which has, till now, threatened the Muslim society,
was the internal assault a blow inflicted from within by apparently Muslim but
really Al Kafir persons.
It is narrated
from the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) that: I do not ear, for Islam, the known friends
and foes because a friend does not assault and no co-operation is forged with
a known enemy. But I fear those hypocrites who show themselves as Muslims and
who assault Islam. So Samarah bin Jandab and Abu Hurairah who attributed their
lies to the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) and verse able to harm Islam. Amirul Mo-mineen
(a.s.) says about this group: If people recognize that such persons are hypocrites
and liars they will never testify them and will never believe them but people
got deceived due to their being the Ashaab companions of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.)
and they tell to themselves that they are those who have seen the Holy Prophet
(s.a.w.s.) and have heard this words and have accepted him and hence they never
tell untruth whereas the masses are not aware of the position of this group.
And these hypocrites
were apparently Muslims who, through their lying, were able to strengthen the
foundations of the usurped and oppressive governments of the Umaiyads and the
Abbasids.
And today too
our revolutionary masses should know that all the blows which our Islamic society
has suffered were inflicted by the hands of such people who made themselves
appear as Muslims and who penetrated into the Islamic organizations and consequently
succeeded in their evil aims like bomb blasts, blood shed, strikes, rumour mongering
etc.
2 - It is the
duty of Muslims that they should admonish the hypocrites and if thereafter they
notice that the hypocrites still do not desist from hiding themselves under
the garb of munafiqat then they should be removed from the Muslim society and
they must be dealt with harshly. That is why it has been repeatedly stated in
the Holy Quran, for instance:
O Prophet!
Strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to
them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination.
It is alike
to them whether you beg forgiveness for them or do not beg forgiveness for them;
Allah will never forgive them; surely Allah does not guide the transgressing
people.
Ask forgiveness
for them or do not ask forgiveness for them; even if you ask forgiveness for
them seventy times, Allah will not forgive them; this is because they disbelieve
in Allah and His Apostle, and Allah does not guide the transgressing people.
And those
who built a masjid to cause harm and for unbelief and to cause disunion among
the believers and an ambush to him who made war against Allah and His Apostle
before; and they will certainly swear: We did not desire aught but good; and
Allah bears witness that they are most surely liars. Never stand in it; certainly
a masjid founded on piety from the very first day is more deserving that you
should stand in it; in it are men who love that they should be purified; and
Allah loves those who purify themselves. Is he, therefore, better who lays his
foundation on fear of Allah and His good pleasure, or he who lays his foundation
on the edge of a cracking hollowed bank, so it broke down with him into the
fire of hell; and Allah does not guide the unjust people. The building which
they have built will ever continue to be a source of disquiet in their hearts,
except that their hearts get cut into pieces; and Allah is Knowing, Wise.
Commentators
have written: A group of hypocrites approached the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) an
said: Permit us to build a mosque among the tribe of Bani Salam near Masjid
Qubaa so that old sand infirm and ill and disabled may pray therein and likewise,
in rainy nights, when some weak people who are unable to come to your Masjid
may fulfil their Islamic duty therein. This was the time when the Holy Prophet
(s.a.w.s.) was setting out for the war of Tabuk.
The Holy Prophet
(s.a.w.s.) gave them permission.
But they added
to their request whether it is possible that you Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) come
there personally and pray therein.
The Holy Prophet
(s.a.w.s.) said: At present I am leaving for jihad. On return, God willing,
I will come to that Masjid and pray therein.
When the Holy
Prophet (s.a.w.s.) returned from the War of Tabuk, that group name back to him
and said: We request you to come to our mosque and to pray therein and pray
to God so that He may bless us. This happened when the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.)
had not yet reached the gate of Madinah.
In the meanwhile
Divine Revelation came with the above-quoted verses, which exposed the secret
of their deed. Following it, the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) ordered to put that
mosque to fire and to destroy its remains and to make at that place for collecting
city garbage!
Apparently,
if we look at the work of this group along with the offer which they had made
in the beginning we become astonished. But, is it not that the construction
of a mosque and that too for assisting the weak and the sick and for exigencies
really a deed of religious service as well as a human aid? Yet, in reality,
it is a bad deed that brought such Divine commandment. Why?
However, when
we study the hidden aspect of the problem we will see how well calculated was
this Divine Order. Abu Aamir was from the fugitive Christian monks who had relations
with the hypocrites of Madinah. Under the show of a mosque we wanted to build
a centre from where he may be able to hit deadly assaults on Islam.
3 - Many narrations
also give signs of hypocrites, for example:
The Holy Prophet
(s.a.w.s.) said: A hypocrite has three symptoms: To lie while talking, to break
promise and to be dishonest when trusted.
It is reported
through Imam Sadiq (a.s.) that the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) said: There are three
are three things. Anyone who posses as then is a hypocrite even if he fasts
and prays and calls himself a Muslim: the one who breaches a trust, tells lies
and breaks promise.
The Holy Prophet
(s.a.w.s.) also said: If the outward courtesy of body exceeds the inward courtesy
of the heart, then it is, in our view, hypocrisy.
Imam Sadiq
(a.s.) said: There are four signs of a hypocrite: 1 Hardness of heart, 2 Dryness
of eye, 3 insistence on sinning and 4 greed to live long in the world.
The Holy Prophet
(s.a.w.s.) said: Excessive love for status and wealth grows hypocrisy in the
heart of man just as water grows vegetable.
A Warning
to Hypocrites
If one does
not beg forgiveness make Tawbah and dies while having this dangerous vice he
becomes the target of this verse:
On the day
when the hypocritical men and the hypocritical women will say to those who believe:
Wait for us, that we may have light from your light; it shall be said: Turn
back and seek a light. Then separation would be brought about between them,
with a wall having a door in it; as for the inside of it, there shall be mercy
in it, and as for the outside of it, before it there shall be punishment.
They will
cry out to them: Were we not with you? They shall say: Yea! But you caused yourselves
to fall into temptation, and you waited and doubted, and vain desires deceived
you till the threatened punishment of Allah came, while the arch deceiver deceived
you about Allah.
So today
ransom shall not be accepted from you nor from those who disbelieved; your abode
is the fire; it is your friend and evil is the resort.
O God! We give
you the oath of your Holy self and of the high status of your Friends and of
the blood of the martyrs of your path! Keep us far away from the evil of hypocrisy
and selfishness and egotism and make us the possessors of good morals and attributes
of your righteous slaves.
The Ominous
Signs of Hypocrisy
1 - The Holy
Prophet (s.a.w.s.) said: One who has two faces in this world will have two tongues
of fire on the Day of Judgement.
2 - The worst
man in the sight of God on the Day of Judgement is the double-faced one.
3 - Imam Sadiq
(a.s.) said: The one who talks with Muslims with two tongues and two faces will
arrive on the Day of Judgement two tongues of fire.
4 - Imam Baqir
(a.s.) has reportedly said: How bad is a slave who has two faces, who praises
his brother in front of him and in his absence, eats him up backbites him and
if he is wealthy becomes jealous of him and if he comes in trouble refrains
from helping him.
In conclusion,
the one who, for earning this world, talk with everybody according to his liking
and, as the saying goes, eats bread at current price and moreover conceals the
truth and usurps the rights of others, is, according to the opinion of great
scholars, like Allamah Majlisi, is total a hypocrite. Let us pray to God the
Great so that He may protect us from this wicked vice.
