Abu Zaid Al-Muqri Al-Idrisi: These are the characteristics of hypocrites and the reasons for the progress of the nation despite their plots

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The Islamic thinker Abu Zaid al-Muqri al-Idrisi said that the goal of the unbelievers is to resist and fight Islam and to remain weak and humiliated, while the goal of the hypocrites is “to blow up Islam from within, and to annihilate it as a human, social, material, and moral ideological entity.”

This came in the 19th episode of the program “Sharia and Life in Ramadan,” which dealt with the characteristics of hypocrites and their destructive role from the era of the Prophet until our present era.

Al-Idrisi pointed out that the hypocrites continued their roles and used different means for each era, especially after the Islamic society developed and increased in wealth, wealth, breadth, knowledge and culture, indicating that the nation was penetrated by three lines, the first “literary - intellectual - cultural”, the second “political - ethnic”, and the third “ Religious - emotional.

However, he stressed that the nation continued its progress and prosperity and spread its civilization throughout the earth despite the plots of the hypocrites, thanks to awareness, immunity, cohesion, clarity and publicity of the Islamic project and methodological discipline, in addition to the scholars and numerical abundance that made the hypocrites few in number.

Definition of hypocrite

Al-Idrisi explains that the hypocrite is an Islamic name that the Arabs do not know. He is the one who conceals his disbelief and shows his faith. He is very cunning and manipulative, cunning and good at getting rid of things, and he has many faces.

He added that the legal definition of a hypocrite means that a person always, consciously and consciously harbors something other than what he appears for the sake of evil goals with the intention of harming the faith, which he appears to be seeking to serve its interests.

He pointed out that the hypocrite is a person who believes that he is smarter than the infidels and believers, and he has no certainty in God, nor certainty in the reasons, tricks, and alliances on which he relies.

He stressed the necessity of distinguishing between hypocrisy and piety, because the latter is temporary and temporary, and comes out of necessity, as a result of submission to coercion and a request for salvation. Likewise, it is not permissible to confuse hypocrisy with politeness, since the latter is part of piety, specific to the social dimension and human relations in daily life.

A distinction should be made between hypocrisy and hypocrisy - according to Al-Idrisi - because hypocrisy is partial, practical hypocrisy that has nothing to do with belief.

The Holy Qur’an devotes a large amount of space to warning against hypocrites, more than talking about believers and infidels, as stated in Surah Al-Baqarah (13 verses), An-Nisa’ (13 verses), The Hypocrites (8 verses out of 11), and Repentance, according to the Islamic thinker.

Al-Idrisi stated that the Qur’an mentioned hypocrites 37 times, using 6 derivations and conjugations, pointing to the prevalence of the danger of hypocrisy for the Islamic project, because hypocrisy and disbelief are allied.

He explained that hypocrisy was mentioned without a word in two cases: the first described it as repeated disbelief, and the second described it as extremism, where hypocrites believe in a selective, opportunistic, whimsical way and reject something according to their mood.

He stressed that the Qur’an’s description of the hypocrites was accurate and repeated so that Muslims could understand the reality of the hypocrites and their danger because they exist within them, speak with their tongue, and are among their people, and they pray with them in the mosques, and go with them on Hajj, and they hear from the Muslims and learn about their faults and weaknesses.

Characteristics of hypocrites

The Islamic thinker touched on the negative qualities of hypocrites, which are: lying, deception, delusion, sickness of the heart, corruption on earth and denial of that, vanity, ignorance, contempt for others, duplicity, company with devils, mockery, tyranny, blindness and wandering, loss, deafness, mutism, blindness, and persistence.

He added that among the deals of hypocrites - also - are deception, hypocrisy, laziness in worship, hesitation, misguidance, betrayal, allegiance to non-Muslims, mockery, opportunism, and lurking, indicating that God has judged them to be in the lowest level of Hell, and to defeat, humiliation and boycott, and the final result is necessary. Beware of them.

He pointed out that hypocrites are enemies, immoral, ignorant, and arrogant people who do not know, in addition to death of the heart, divine duel, and eternity in hell.

The Prophet dealt with hypocrites

Regarding the approach of the Messenger Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, in dealing with hypocrites, the Islamic thinker said that his position is directed to him by the Qur’an and indicates a high moral level, adding that a divine will is behind their continued existence within the framework of the struggle between truth and falsehood.

He confirmed that the Messenger knew them one by one - through revelation - after the strict prohibition from the Qur’an not to pray for them was revealed to him after the incident of praying for Abdullah bin Abi bin Salul, and he explained that he knew from the revelation that he would die, so he confided the list of hypocrites to Hudhayfah bin Al-Yaman.

He added that the list is a precaution in order to implement one legal ruling, which is not to pray for them. He pointed out that the Prophet forbade the use of violence against them even though he was subjected to 12 assassination attempts, including 3 attempts by infidels, and 9 by Jews, part of which was planned by hypocrites.

He stated that the Qur’an forbade the Prophet Muhammad from going to the Dirar Mosque because it was a den of spying, plotting, lurking, and stirring up strife, after the hypocrites tried to transform their work into an institutional system carrying a project and goals.

After the death of the Prophet, the plots and deceit of the hypocrites did not stop, and the beginning of their return to their systematic work of sabotage and sedition occurred during the era of the third Rightly Guided Caliph, Othman bin Affan, as his term in office was long and he was lenient, so that the hypocrites found it an opportunity to incite mobs among the weak Muslims.

Source: Al Jazeera