Surat an-Nisa, 142-145

Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on A9 TV dated 22 March 2012

Verse 142

“The hypocrites think they deceive Allah.”

In their opinion, hypocrites think that they deceive Allah. For instance, if you look at the statements of hypocrites, they show themselves as if they believe but a hypocrite never believes in what he tells. This is similar to the case of people who have to pretend to be communists under a communist system, although they hate communism. This was also the case in the neighborhoods in the past in Turkey where communism was dominant. Then those who were severely against communism pretended to be communists when they were surrounded by communists. They pretended to be more communist than the communists. They pretended to be communists because they were afraid.

The same thing holds true for bigots; in order not to lose his interests in that system, he shows himself as a bigot who believes in superstitions- he, in fact, does not believe.

 “But He is deceiving them.”

Allah deceives them. They think that they deceive Allah but Almighty Allah says that He, in fact, deceives them. “When they get up to pray, they get up lazily.” This is the main trait of hypocrites. “...showing off to people.” By what means? By every means that comes to your mind. By skull-caps, cloaks, swords, flags, the flags that they themselves make, by using the miswaq. They show themselves off by new methods that they develop. If you notice, bigots intensely show off but sincere Muslims have some sort of sweetness, some kind of beauty.

Verse 143

“They vacillate between the two – not joining these or joining those.” They neither join Muslims nor disbelievers. 

‘If Allah misguides someone, you will not find any way for him to go..” They can not find any way once a person swerves.

Verse 144

 “You who have faith! Do not take the disbelievers as friends rather than the believers. Do you want to give Allah clear proof against you?”

Allah says that a certain proof comes into being. What does one commit against Muslims? He cooperates with disbelievers, he takes them as guardians. They come up and say, “The Qur’an says not to take Jews and Christians as guides.” Notice that Allah also says, “Do not take disbelievers as guides.” Your father is a disbeliever, so why do you take his as a guide? The businessman you flatter is a disbeliever, why do you take him as a guide? Your own child lives the life of a disbeliever. You also take him as a disbeliever. From the way she speaks, it is comprehended that your own wife has also fallen into disbelief. You also take her as a guide. What happened to your claim that you were not taking them as guides? You were giving advice to the people around you? This means that if there are disbelievers, no union comes into being. If one curses against Islam, our religion and faith. There is no problem if one does not give any harm to them. That is to say, we do not interfere with them, for Allah says that if they do not struggle against Muslims in their religious issues, there is no harm in doing good to them.

Verse 145

I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed satan.  “The hypocrites are in the lowest level of the Fire. You will not find any one to help them.”