BUt the hypocrites are always there, day and night....

[fisabililah]

Assalamu a'leykum, brothers and sisters, regarding the munafiqeen it is said;

Firstly Allah (subhanahu wa ta'laa) says in Qur'an,

They are the enemy, so beware of them (An Nisaa,145)

This expression requires further explantion; while the Literal meaning of the words seems to imply that they are the only enemy, the real import is that there is no other enemy like them, or even equal to them. In fact this verse is of the strongest in condemnation of them. No one could have imagines that they were not in fact enemies of Islam, simply by virtue of their apparaent loyalty and intimacy with the beivers and by their hollow claim to be muslims. Rather, of all people theirs is the clearest case of enmity, they are openly denounced for what they are.

'The havoc which these people wreak from within, while concealing their true feelings, is more severe, more unrelenting and more enduring than anything inflicted by those who openly declare their animosity. the struggle against the disbelievers is for an hour or for a day, then at the close of battle they withdraw, but the hypocrites are always there, day and night, hiding their hatred in their hearts and waiting for disaster to strike their enemies who are powerless to fight them. They hope to abandon their 'freinds' to humiliation and disgrace, this longing of their hearts brings the wrath of Allah upon them and earns them their place in Hell.

Whoever puts himself beneath their wing, his heart becoming darkened in their shadow, will find himself stripped bare, in body and soul. even as he is dragged into the depths of pain and anguish, lying supine crawling backward, he will still believe he is moving forward.'

Tariq al-hijratayn wa baab as-saadatayn, Ibn al qayim,p402.

Taken from al-walaa wal-baraa by shiekh muhammed saeed al-qahtani.

May Allah expose the plots of the munafiqeen. Ameen.