Al-Munāfiqūn

24 passages reference this surah

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Book 2: The Book of Belief

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "He replied, My brother, if the hypocrites were to perish, you would feel lonely on the road. Someone remarked, If hypocrites had tails, we wouldn't be able to walk on the ground. Ibn Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, heard a man reviling al-Hajjaj."

   Source in The Book of Belief →

2. "God, peace be upon him, which would make him a hypocrite. This was reported by Ahmad with a chain containing unknown elements. Another hadith from Hud Haifa states. There are more hypocrites today than during the era of the Messenger of God, peace be"

   Source in The Book of Belief →

3. "free from it. Hudhayfa also noted, There are more hypocrites today than during the Prophet's era, peace be upon him. Then they used to hide it, and today they reveal it. This hypocrisy opposes the truthfulness and completeness of faith."

   Source in The Book of Belief →

Book 23: The Book of Breaking the Two Desires

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din

1. "requiring two sincere acts of repentance. The matter of the hypocrites is emphasized in the Quran, as Allah the Exalted says, Indeed, the hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of the fire."

   Source in The Book of Breaking the Two Desires →

Book 27: Condemnation of Miserliness and Love of Wealth

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "the dinar and dirham were first minted, Iblis lifted them, placed them on his forehead, kissed them, and said, Whoever loves you is truly my servant. Sumayyid ibn Ajlan said, The dirhams and dinars are the reins of hypocrites, leading them to the fire. Yahya ibn Muadh said,"

   Source in Miserliness and Wealth →

The Story of Isa

Ibn Kathir · Stories of the Prophets

1. "of others. They said, When Jesus, son of Mary, was sent and came to them with clear proof, the hypocrites and disbelievers from the children of Israel marveled at Him and mocked Him, saying, What did so-and-so eat last night, and what did he store in his home? He informed"

   Source in The Story of Isa →

Book 33: Fear and Hope

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "only to fall silent when he appeared, I have found no basis for this. Hudhayfah was uniquely knowledgeable about the hypocrites and the causes of hypocrisy. He used to say, a time comes upon the heart when it fills with faith so that hypocrisy finds no space like the"

   Source in Fear & Hope →

Book 16: Etiquettes of Seclusion

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "concern is pure hypocrisy. Sari said, If a brother entered and I adjusted my beard with my hand for his entry, I would fear being recorded in the register of the hypocrites. Fudayl was once sitting alone in the sacred mosque when a brother approached him and asked,"

   Source in Etiquettes of Seclusion →

Book 4: The Book of Prayer

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "if your words are correct. This is similar to how he attested against the hypocrites who acknowledged the Prophet as the Messenger of Allah, yet their hearts were not sincere. If your desires take precedence over Allah's commands and you obey them more than Allah,"

   Source in The Book of Prayer →

2. "except on the day and night of Jumu'ah. During the Maghrib prayer on the night of Jumu'ah, he would recite, Say, O you disbelievers, and say, He is Allah, who is One. In the Isha prayer on the night of Jumu'ah, he would recite Surat al-Jumu'ah and al-Munafiqun."

   Source in The Book of Prayer →

3. "The hadith about prayers being expiation for what is between them, as long as major sins are avoided, is recorded by Muslim from the narration of Abu Huraira. The hadith regarding the difference between us and hypocrites being in the Isha and Fajr"

   Source in The Book of Prayer →

Book 8: The Mysteries of Qur'an Recitation

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "arrogant. It is fitting for a bearer of the Quran to be meek and gentle, not coarse, argumentative, loud, or harsh. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, warned, the majority of the hypocrites of this community are its reciters. He also advised, recite the"

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2. "The hadith about the hypocrites being the reciters was reported by Ahmad from Uqba Ibn Amir and Abdullah Ibn Amr. The hadith about reciting the Quran to prevent sin was extracted by al-Tabarani, though with a weak chain of narration. The hadith stating that"

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Book 35: The Book of Divine Unity and Trust in God

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din

1. "The first level of monotheism is for a person to say with his tongue, There is no deity but God, while his heart is heedless or denies it, as in the monotheism of hypocrites. The second is for the heart to believe in the meaning of the phrase, as believed by"

   Source in The Book of Divine Unity and Trust in God →

2. "so seek provision from Allah and worship Him. He states, To Allah belongs the treasures of the heavens and the earth, but the hypocrites do not understand. He, the Almighty, also says, He manages the matter, no intercessor is there except after"

   Source in The Book of Divine Unity and Trust in God →

Volume One: From Tangier to the Lands of the East

Ibn Battuta · Rihla — The Travels of Ibn Battuta

1. "We ask for protection in our movements, stillness, words, wills, and thoughts from doubts, illusions, and suspicions that veil the heart from witnessing the unseen. For the believers have been tested and shaken severely, so that the hypocrites and those"

   Source in Volume One →

Book 12: Book of Marriage

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "The Hadith states, Any woman who asks her husband for divorce without harm will not smell the fragrance of paradise. In another narration, paradise is forbidden to her. The Hadith about women seeking cool from their husbands labeled them as hypocrites."

   Source in Etiquette of Marriage →

Book 19: The Book of Commanding Good and Forbidding Evil

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din

1. "distress you have brought upon them or the injustice you have delivered unto them? Makhul narrated to me from Urwah ibn Ruwaym that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, held a stick from which he used to scare the hypocrites."

   Source in The Book of Commanding Good and Forbidding Evil →

Book 9: The Mysteries of Supplication

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "and poverty, in sickness and health, both secretly and openly. Allah criticizes the hypocrites, saying, And they do not remember Allah except a little. He also advises, Remember your Lord and yourself with humility and fear and without being"

   Source in Invocations & Supplications →

Book 28: Condemnation of Status and Showing Off

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "of hypocrites. This is the essence of ostentation and its various forms. If you wonder whether ostentation is forbidden, discouraged, or permissible, it has distinctions. Ostentation is the pursuit of status, whether through acts of worship"

   Source in Status & Showing Off →

2. "the two testimonies of faith, but internally denies them. Such a person displays ostentation through the outer form of Islam. The Quran addresses this in several verses. For example, Allah says, when the hypocrites come to you they say,"

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3. "individuals are the most detested hypocrites to Allah because they use obedience to their Lord as a means to commit sin. Closely related to them, though lesser, is someone who stands accused of an offense and insists on it, but wishes"

   Source in Status & Showing Off →

Book 15: Friendship and Brotherhood

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "Allah will say, O My servant, I only concealed them for you in the world, and today I forgive them for you, and he will be given his book of good deeds. As for the disbelievers and hypocrites, the witnesses will say, These are the ones who"

   Source in Friendship and Brotherhood →

Book 34: Poverty and Asceticism

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "As for the hypocrites, they fled from battle out of fear of death. It was said to them that the death they flee from is indeed coming to meet them. Their preference for life over martyrdom was an exchange of the better for the lesser."

   Source in Poverty & Asceticism →