Chapter II: Patience and Gratefulness
Basari said : Had I known that I am free from hypocrisy, it would have been dearer to me than all the things over which the sun .shines. The signs of hypocrisy are many. The Prophet said : He Who has got four things in him is called a hypocrite evern though he prays, fasts and thinks that he is a Muslim — (1) to speak falsehood when he speaks, (2) to break promise, (3) to break trust when he is entrusted and (4) to do wrong at the time of dispute (or to break trust after contract). The companions and their followers gave such an interpretation of hypocrisy that nobody is safe from it. The saint Hasan Basri said : The meaning of hypocrisy is to make difference between open and secret matters, that the tongue and heart are not the same and the inner and outer things are not the same. The companions of the Prophet used to say : You commit such sins which are more insignificant to you than a hair, but we considered them as great sins at the time of the Prophet. A certain companion said : The signs of hypocrisy are to bate which a man does and which he does, to love one who does an oppresive act and to get dissatisfied with truth. Huzaifa once heard a man rebuking the tyrant Hajjaj and said to him : Do you think that if Hajjaj would have been present here, you could have rebuked him ? He said : I could not have rebuked him. Huzaifa said : We considered it a hypocrisy at the time of the Prophet. Hazaifa was an expert in the matter of hypocrisy.
MEANING OF ULTIMATE EVIL END: The are two
conditions of ultimate end. One of them is greater then the other.
If the greater thing becomes strong at the time of death, there is danger. The second thing is below the first. In this condition, love of the world becomes strong and punishment becomes due. If the hearts of believer is sound and turns away from the attachment of the world, the fire of Hell tells him : O believer, take rewards as your light extinguished my flame. The second cause is weakness of the original faith and attachment of the world over mind. God says : Say : If your parents, your children, your brothers, your wives, your relatives, your wealth which you hoard, your merchandise, slothness of which you fear and your abode which gives pleasure to you are more loved by you than God and His Messenger and fighting in His way, then wait till God comes with Hisorder-9:24.
Second condition of ultimate end: In this condition, there are two stages one stage is many sins with strong faith and
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