Fraud linguistically means cheating, and the seller deceived that is, concealed the defects of his goods from the buyer, and technically it means falsehood and deception, especially in the field of thought and opinion.

As for the deceivers, in this regard, they are a group of people of knowledge, thought and culture who use their goods, skills and hadiths to deceive people, deceive them, and falsify their minds and awareness.

They are like the poets whom you find wandering in every valley, saying what they do not do.

Fraud does not differ, here, much from deception, which means showing falsehood in the form of truth through camouflage and deception, as well as showing the former and concealing the other by mixing truth with lies.

He confused the facts, that is, mixed them up and concealed their truth and showed their disagreement.

God, Glory be to Him, forbade the Jews from what they were deliberately attempting to do by misleading the truth with falsehood, and said in His Noble Book: “Do not confuse the truth with falsehood and conceal the truth while you know” (Surat Al-Baqarah: 42).

Today, an Arab society is hardly devoid of deceivers and deceivers, who confuse truth with falsehood through deception and deception, and many of them assume the characteristics of scholars, thinkers, intellectuals, media professionals, influencers, etc.

Some describe them in ignorance as “scholars” and call themselves, arrogantly and arrogantly, the “elite”, who knows everything, understands everything, and talks about anything, and that if she speaks, people should listen, and if she is silent, her silence is wisdom and inspiration.

Take - for example - that "Great scholar", who deliberately mixes truth with falsehood, and practices fraud against people, in order to justify certain actions of those with authority and influence. He is shown by his thick white beard.

His students described him as “the scholar,” the jurist, the revamped sheikh, and the ascetic Sufi worshiper, who has no doubts in matters of jurisprudence and fatwas, which is what made him sit on the throne of “fatwas” in Egypt for a whole decade.

He was, and perhaps still is, aspiring to become a sheikh of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif.

Suddenly, the man's dignity fell, and his prestige dissipated, after he fell into the arms of the authority, glorifying it, flattering it, blessing all its actions, and waging a fierce war against its violators.

His tongue turned into a machine gun, and expressions of hatred and incitement to kill violators jump from between his lips, after his blood became lawful, and he described them as "bastards" and "outsiders of this age" and "dogs of the people of Hell."

Thus, the friendly Sheikh, with a cheerful face, and a beautiful appearance, turned into an angry, sullen face, spouting lies and hatred against his opponents, while his tongue praises and hypocrisy for the authority, no matter how wrong it is. with scholars and clerics.

Some journalists have “meaning paranoia” to the point that he imagines himself as a jurist and a religious scholar issuing fatwas to people in matters of their religion and their worldly affairs through his television programs and media meetings, and he was struck by “the gold of the goats” and suddenly became one of the most important “drama and cinema writers” in Egypt.

Take also that "great intellectual" who was defending freedom and demanding democracy as the solution. When he brought his opponents to power, he turned on his heels, cursed democracy, incited its opponents to turn against it, and then justified their action by saying that it was in the interest of the nation.

There is also that professor (or professor), and the university (or university) lecturer, who kept lecturing people about freedom, and teaching them the rules of democracy.

He praises tyranny and justifies crimes, forgetting everything he used to say about freedom and democracy.

I know one of them, and he was once a respected university professor who was referred to as an eminent person for his excessive intelligence and research capabilities, and for his positions that were opposed to tyranny during Mubarak's days.

But he turned and turned on his heels after the third of July 2013, and even refuses to dialogue with anyone who disagrees with him in seeing what happened.

I met him about 6 years ago - on the sidelines of a scientific conference in Beirut - and I was presenting a research paper at the time, which I called "The Resistance under the Military after the July 2013 Coup." July is not a coup, because it came as a result of a "popular revolution" that is the revolution of June 30, 2013. Yes, he said it publicly without shaking an eyelid, then he repeated the same sayings, a few days ago, on Al Jazeera Mubasher, which was It defends the "national dialogue play" that we are currently watching.

Finally, take that outstanding journalist and brilliant media figure, who raised the sword of his pen in the face of the Mubarak regime, and was almost imprisoned because of that, and when the January 2011 revolution took place, he was at the forefront of the ranks, but later turned into a supporter of tyranny, and a defender of its crimes. While he does not dare to open his mouth with a word of criticism to an authority.

He recently reached “paranoia” to imagine himself as a jurist and a religious scholar issuing fatwas to people in matters of their religion and their worldly affairs through his television programs and media meetings, and he was struck by “the gold of the goats”, and suddenly became one of the most important “drama and cinema writers” in Egypt.

We all know them well, and we see and hear them on TV screens and social media that haunt us day and night. How many of them are in our midst, tirelessly promoting their wares, and shouting at people to believe them and follow them.

Sheikhs, scholars, university professors, intellectuals, researchers, media professionals, journalists, etc. have all fallen into the unforgiving trap of history.