The Consequences of Hypocrisy in Belief: Insights from Surah Al-Hadid (57:13-15)

Understanding the Warning Against Hypocrisy in Surah Al-Hadid

On the Day when the hypocrites - men and women - will say to the believers: Wait for us! Let us get something from your light! It will be said: Go back to your rear! Then seek a light! So a wall will be put up between them, with a gate therein. Inside it will be mercy, and outside it will be torment.

˹The hypocrites˺ will call the believers: Were we not with you? The believers will reply: Yes! But you led yourselves into temptations, you looked forward for our destruction; you doubted ˹in Faith˺ and you were deceived by false desires, till the Command of ALLĀH came to pass. And the chief deceiver (Satan) deceived you in respect of ALLĀH.

So today no ransom will be taken from you or from those who disbelieved. Your abode is the Fire. That is your maulâ (friend - proper place), and worst indeed is that destination.

{Al-Hadīd || Verse 13-15}

BENEFICIAL POINTS FROM SŪRAH AL-HADĪD, VERSEV13-15

1⃣. Perfect your Wudu.

The believers will be distinguished from the hypocrites by the light attained by virtue of their belief and acts of righteousness, one of which is the perfection of ablution as related by al-Bukhārī (136).

2⃣. Purify your intention.

The hypocrites also engage in good deeds along with the believers deceitfully and ostentatiously, but their deceit will be made apparent to the believers in the Hereafter.

3⃣. The believers are tested.

Whoever professes faith will be tempted and tested within it. True believers remain steadfast, while hypocrites succumb to the tests.

4⃣. Always root for the success of the believers.

One of the characteristics of hypocrites is that they hope for misfortune to befall the believers who adhere to the religious teachings and support disbelievers against them.

5⃣. The doubters are not believers.

The promises and words of ALLĀH are true, as are the authentic narrations of HIS Messenger ﷺ, even when they contradict our intellect.

6⃣. Your Eeman is priceless.

If a soul owned everything in this world twice over, it couldn't ransom itself from torment. The only accepted ransom is belief in ALLĀH accompanied by good deeds.

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