{"id":15242,"date":"2025-05-29T02:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/?p=15242"},"modified":"2025-05-29T02:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:20:39","slug":"what-is-the-hypocrisy-in-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/what-is-the-hypocrisy-in-belief\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the hypocrisy in Belief?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aaa3bae e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-accordion-item-25642\" data-id=\"aaa3bae\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-251a80e elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"251a80e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p><span class=\"elementor-drop-cap\"><span class=\"elementor-drop-cap-letter\">H<\/span><\/span>ypocrisy in belief, or <em>Nif\u0101q I\u02bftiq\u0101d\u012b<\/em>, is when a person outwardly claims to be a Muslim but secretly disbelieves. This type of hypocrisy is extremely serious, as it involves deception at the level of faith itself. A person with hypocrisy in belief acts as a Muslim publicly but internally rejects the core beliefs of Islam. This type of hypocrisy places a person outside the fold of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Forms of hypocrisy in belief include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Denying the Prophet Muhammad\u2019s message:<\/strong> Outwardly, they may say they believe, but internally they reject the truth of his prophethood.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hating what the Prophet brought:<\/strong> This includes disliking parts of Islamic teachings, such as the Qur\u2019an, even while pretending to accept it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rejoicing in the hardship of Islam:<\/strong> Secretly hoping for Islam to weaken or celebrating when Muslims face hardship or defeat.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pretending loyalty while wishing for Islam\u2019s failure:<\/strong> Outwardly appearing supportive but hoping for the downfall of the Islamic community.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>All\u0101h warns of the severity of hypocrisy in belief in the Qur\u2019an:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cIndeed, the hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of the Fire, and never will you find for them a helper.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2014 <em>Surah An-Nisa (4:145)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypocrisy in belief, or Nif\u0101q I\u02bftiq\u0101d\u012b, is when a person outwardly claims to be a Muslim but secretly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamqa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15243,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15242\/revisions\/15243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}