Asalamu alaikum Quran Weekly,
I actually wanted to share with you ayah number 147 of Surah al-Nisaa’. I read three ayat; two ayat before that in which Allah says the hypocrites will be in the lowest pit of the Hellfire. Then He says, ‘The only ones who won’t be in the Hellfire are the people who repented among the hypocrites’, meaning there are people who suffered from hypocrisy and came back.
Therefore, hypocrisy is not a terminal state – you can come back from it. You can suffer from this disease and come back to believing also because the doors of ‘توبة’ ‘tawbah’ are still open – beautiful thing to know.
‘وَأَصْلَحُوا وَاعْتَصَمُوا بِاللَّهِ’ (Wa ‘Aşlaĥū Wa A`taşamū Billāhi) And they corrected themselves. They reconciled. They fixed themselves up and they held onto Allah. ‘وَأَخْلَصُوا دِينَهُمْ لِلَّهِ’ (Wa ‘Akhlaşū Dīnahum Lillāhi).
And they made the religion sincere to Allah because obviously, what’s the problem of a hypocrite? It’s insincerity. They made their religion sincere to Allah.
Then those are among the ‘مُؤْمِنِينَ’ (Mu’uminīna), ‘فَأُولَٰئِكَ مَعَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ’ (Fa’ūlā’ika Ma`a Al-Mu’uminīna), now they are counted among the believers. They are no longer considered hypocrites. So they came right back in and that old label that they had on them has been shed.
Source: Nouman Ali Khan, Quran Weekly Channel
