Munafiq

In Islam, the munafiqun ('hypocrites', Arabic: منافقون, singular منافق munāfiq) or false Muslims or false believers are a group decried in the Quran as outward Muslims who were inwardly concealing disbelief ("kufr") and actively sought to undermine the Muslim community.^[1] Munafiq is a person who in public and in community shows that he is a Muslim but rejects Islam or speaks against it either in his heart or among the enemies of Islam. They disguised themselves in order to know political ideologies of Islamic rulers.^[2] The hypocrisy itself is called nifāq (نفاق).^[3]

^ Nisan, Mordechai (5 July 2017). Politics and War in Lebanon: Unraveling the Enigma. Routledge. p. 243. ISBN 9781351498333.
^ Mubārakfūrī, Ṣafī al-Raḥmān (1996). Ar-Raheeq Al-makhtum. The Sealed Nectar: Biography of the Noble Prophet. Maktaba Dar-us-Salam Publishers.
^ Lamptey, Jerusha Tanner (15 January 2016). Never Wholly Other: A Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism. Oxford University Press. pp. 134–135. ISBN 9780190458010.

[1] Nisan, Mordechai (5 July 2017). Politics and War in Lebanon: Unraveling the Enigma. Routledge. p. 243. ISBN 9781351498333.

[2] Mubārakfūrī, Ṣafī al-Raḥmān (1996). Ar-Raheeq Al-makhtum. The Sealed Nectar: Biography of the Noble Prophet. Maktaba Dar-us-Salam Publishers.

[3] Lamptey, Jerusha Tanner (15 January 2016). Never Wholly Other: A Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism. Oxford University Press. pp. 134–135. ISBN 9780190458010.

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Islam Iman Ihsan
Individuals
Mumin – Believer Muslim – Submitter (to God) Martyr – Arabic: Shahid Fasiq – Open sinner, corrupt Fajir – Sinner (by action) Kafir – Disbeliever Munafiq – Hypocrite
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Ahl al-Kitab – People of the Book Ahl al-Fatrah – People of the Interval
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