disbelieved, or being swept away by worldly pleasures had possessed their hearts

so that it left no place for the love of Allah - the Most High - and His Messenger - peace and blessings be upon him -

or greed and love of wealth overcame them,

and envy and malice and similar vices of morals and habits

so that there no longer remained in their hearts the freshness of faith,

and the sweetness of supplication and earnest prayer, and the blessings of acts of worship,

or they plunged into their worldly affairs to the extent that they had no opportunity for acts of worship,

or they plunged into their worldly affairs to the extent that they had no opportunity to anticipate the Hereafter and ponder over it,

or there used to pass through their thoughts and hearts evil suspicions and superficial, flimsy doubts regarding the message of our Prophet - peace and blessings be upon him -

despite the fact that their state did not reach the point of stripping off the shackle of Islam from their necks,

and shaking their hands completely free of it.

And these doubts and suspicions used to arise within them

due to what occurs of human conditions upon the person of the Messenger - peace and blessings be upon him -

and due to the appearance of the Islamic nation in the form of kings' dominance and their seizing of the regions of the lands,

and the likes of that

(of the material causes that may confuse some of those weak in faith and give rise to doubts in them)

or for their love of their tribes and clans - for example -

which drove them to help them, strengthen them, and support them - to the best of their effort -

even if at the expense of Islam and opposing its people,

and by that they weaken Islam and inflict harm upon it.

And this category of hypocrisy is the hypocrisy of deeds and morals.