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tongue and nurse hatred in their hearts, and when they sever the ties of
relationship, which bind them, Allah will visit His wrath upon them and curse
them, He will render their tongues mute and their eyes blind.” The truth of this
tradition, which was related by Al Hasan, has been verified as these conditions,
which it predicts have been witness and seen.
Another is to resist truth and detest it and to persist in disputing it so much so
that the most hateful thing to a debater is to see the truth revealed by his
opponent; no matter what it may be, he would do his best to refute and deny it
and would exert his utmost in deception, trickery and fraud in order to disprove
his adversary until contention becomes in him a second nature. He is unable to
hear anything without immediately expressing his objection to it. This habit of his
would even drive him to dispute the truths of the Koran and the words of tradition
and would cause him to cite the one in contradiction of the other.
Another is hypocrisy and flattering people in an effort to win their favor and
mislead. Hypocrisy is that virulent disease, which leads to the gravest of the
major sins. The debater wants nothing but to the gravest of the major sins. The
relationship, which bind them, Allah will visit His wrath upon them and curse
them, He will render their tongues mute and their eyes blind.” The truth of this
tradition, which was related by Al Hasan, has been verified as these conditions,
which it predicts have been witness and seen.
Another is to resist truth and detest it and to persist in disputing it so much so
that the most hateful thing to a debater is to see the truth revealed by his
opponent; no matter what it may be, he would do his best to refute and deny it
and would exert his utmost in deception, trickery and fraud in order to disprove
his adversary until contention becomes in him a second nature. He is unable to
hear anything without immediately expressing his objection to it. This habit of his
would even drive him to dispute the truths of the Koran and the words of tradition
and would cause him to cite the one in contradiction of the other.
Another is hypocrisy and flattering people in an effort to win their favor and
mislead. Hypocrisy is that virulent disease, which leads to the gravest of the
major sins. The debater wants nothing but to the gravest of the major sins. The