What is the difference between practical hypocrisy and creedal hypocrisy?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: What is the difference between creedal hypocrisy and its definition, and practical hypocrisy and its definition?
Answer:
Oh, glory to Allah, we see this talk as if it were the wind. Creedal hypocrisy is displaying faith while concealing disbelief. This is creedal hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is displaying faith while concealing disbelief. It is like the state of the hypocrites about whom the Qur'an was revealed. Allah threatened them with the most severe warning. Practical hypocrisy is when a believer possesses one of the characteristics of the hypocrites. He is a believer, he is a believer outwardly and inwardly, but some of the characteristics of the hypocrites manifest from him. This is the lesser hypocrisy.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: What is the difference between creedal hypocrisy and its definition, and practical hypocrisy and its definition?
Answer:
Oh, glory to Allah, we see this talk as if it were the wind. Creedal hypocrisy is displaying faith while concealing disbelief. This is creedal hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is displaying faith while concealing disbelief. It is like the state of the hypocrites about whom the Qur'an was revealed. Allah threatened them with the most severe warning. Practical hypocrisy is when a believer possesses one of the characteristics of the hypocrites. He is a believer, he is a believer outwardly and inwardly, but some of the characteristics of the hypocrites manifest from him. This is the lesser hypocrisy.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1904- 4717] ما الفرق بين النفاق العملي والنفاق الاعتقادي؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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