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THE NECESSITY OF FIGHT AGAINST HYPOCRISY
The most difficult of all the fights is the one with
hypocrisy, because it is fight with such crafty people who exploit the idiots.
In degree it is a combat more difficult than the one with infidelity. Fight
against infidelity is the fight against an open, explicit and exposed current.
The fight against hypocrisy is a fight against infidelity in disguise.
Hypocrisy has two faces, the one obvious being that
of Islam and Muslim-hood and the other hidden one being that of evil and
infidelity. The correct identification of groups and people is ordinarily very
difficult and sometimes impossible. Probably fight against hypocrisy is a losing
battle, because no mass of luminous rays (ALPHA or BEATA) can pass their surface
to bring the hidden to light, it does not have penetration to the depths of
souls.
Amir-ul-Momineen (PBH) in his epistle written to Muhammad
bin Abu Bakar says, "The Prophet said to me 'for my Ummah, I am not afraid
of Momin and Polytheist because God will abstain the Momin because of his faith,
and will humiliate the Polytheist because of his idolatry. But, for you, I am
afraid of a fair tongue tenanted by a fiendish soul because he says what you
like and does what you hold vicious".
Herein the Prophet of Allah has alerted against the posture
of hypocrisy and the hypocrites. The Ummah, in general ignorant and not well
informed, may be deceived by the spurious.
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