The mask of hypocrisy... for how long?
✒️ Mufti Muhammad Tasleem ud-Din Al-Mahmoodi
A strange tragedy of today's era is that everyone is only busy furthering their own interests. There is such a race for personal gain, selfishness, and ostentation that religion, morality, and truth have all been left behind.
The surprising thing is that people who are apparently righteous, religious, hold high positions, and claim to be serving religion—when you sit in their private gatherings, their reality is revealed in such a way that one seeks refuge in Allah. Those faces that we considered a mirror of piety and sincerity, in fact, turn out to be a bitter example of duplicity and hypocrisy.
This double standard, this outward piety and inward hypocrisy, for how long will it last?
We have to think about what we are doing in the name of religion? Sermons and advice on social media, posts in the name of "serving religion," live lectures, and videos—but in private life, the same person is involved in the same sins, the same selfishness, and the same moral degradations against which he is using his tongue.
This is the time for us to look inside ourselves, take stock of our intentions, and eradicate this hypocrisy. The beginning of reform "does not start with changing others, but with changing oneself."
Either purify your heart and actions, or silence your tongue!
May Allah Almighty grant us the ability to be truthful outwardly and inwardly, to be sincere, and to act accordingly, and may He protect us from hypocrisy, duplicity, and double standards.
Ameen, O Lord of the Worlds.