Transliteration Table 8
IbnQayyim 9
His Name 9
His Birth and Education 9
His Teachers and Shaykhs 9
His Manners and Worship 10
His Students and Works 11
The Statements of the Scholars about him 12
His Death 14
Sifat al-Munafiqin 15
Hypocrisy is a deep rooted and all-pervading
spiritual disease 16
The characteristics of faith are not to be found in their
hearts 19
They treat the texts of the Book and Sunnah like 20
Their capital is deception and scheming 20
Their lying 20
Their ignorance of Allah 21
The disease of desires and doubts has consumed their
hearts 21
Spreading corruption in the land 23
Their making mockery of the religion and looking down
on it 24
Each one of them has two faces 24

Their belittling the religion and those who follow it 24
They have turned away from the Book and Sunnah,
making mockery of those who follow them and looking
down on them 24
They ply their trade in oceans of darkness 25
The fire of faith alights for them 25
The hearing of their hearts is burdened by a heavy load 26
They thrust their fingers in their ears and draw their
garments over them 26
Their spiritual sight is too weak to bear what the rain
contains 27
They are a people prone to laziness and laxity 28
They are like a sheep that has strayed and finds itself
between two flocks 29
They are on the lookout to see what happens to
Ahlus-Sunnah 29
Silkiness and softness of their speech 30
What they enjoin upon their followers entails corrupting
them 3
They are all similar, enjoining the evil 31
They are miserly in giving their wealth 31
They turn away in aversion 32
How can they be successful 32
The vileness of doubts and suspicion cling firmly to
their hearts 3 3
How distant they are from the reality of faith 34
You will find one of them taking oaths before
commencing his words 34
They think they have found a good life and they sleep
comfortably in their beds 3 5
The best of men in physical appearance 36
They delay the Prayer 36
They may think they are many but in reality they are few 37

Allah abhors their obeying Him 39
The texts of the revelation bore down heavily on them 40
They hide their disbelief and display their faith 41
The descriptions of these people are numerous 44
The plant of hypocrisy grows from two stems 45
Their hearts are heedless of performing good 46
APPENDIX 1
The Parable o f the H ypocrites
Ibn al-Qayyim on al-Baqarah (2): 17-20 48
APPENDIX 2
ash-Shanqlti on al-Baqarah (2): 19-20 64
Index of Proper Names 7 6
Glossary of Arabic Terms 78-80

 By Shaykh alIslam Ibn alQayyim alJawziyyah with an appendix from the work of ashShanqiti. In the Qur’an, Allah has revealed the machinations of the hypocrites, He has unveiled their beliefs, their qualities, and made their goals clear so that the believers can be aware of them. He divided mankind into three groups in the beginning of Surah alBaqarah: the believer, the disbeliever, and the hypocrite. He mentioned four verses concerning the believers, two verses concerning the disbelievers, and thirteen verses concerning the hypocrites due to their plenitude and the great harm and tribulation they bring to Islam and the Muslims. The harm they cause to Islam is truly severe for they claim to be Muslims, they claim to aid and support Islam, whereas in reality they are its enemies seeking to destroy it from within, covertly spreading their corruption and ignorance such that the unwary thinks that what they are upon is knowledge and right action.