✦⋆· said, "Hypocrisy appears as a black dot [on the heart]. Whenever hypocrisy increases in magnitude that black dot increases, and when hypocrisy becomes complete the heart becomes black."

● "A hypocrite is someone who when he makes a promise he does not fulfil it, when he does something [bad], he discloses it, when he speaks he lies, when he is entrusted with something he betrays, when he is given sustenance he is fickle and thoughtless, and when he is deprived he spends [more]."

● "He whose inner is contrary to his outer is a hypocrite, no matter who he may be."

● "He [the hypocrite] will come on the Day of Judgment with two faces and with his tongue hanging out from the back of his head, and with another tongue hanging in front. They will both be ignited with fire until they ignite his body, then it will be said about him: This is the one who was two-faced and two-tongued in the world, and he will be known as such on the Day of Resurrection."

● "Invoking blessings on me and my household takes away hypocrisy." (Salawat)

● "Raise your voices in invocation of blessings on me for it takes away hypocrisy."

✦⋆· "Hypocrisy is the brother of polytheism."

● "How hideous is the human being whose outer is agreeable while his inner is hypocritical."

● "The hypocrisy of a person [stems] from the inferiority he finds within himself."

● "A hypocrite, when he looks he is frivolous, when he is silent he forgets, when he speaks he prattles, when he becomes wealthy he tyrannizes, when hardship afflicts him he is treacherous, so he is close to discontentment and far from contentment. Minor things make him discontented with Allah, and he is never content, even with much. He intends to do a lot of evil and commits some of them, and he regrets the evil deeds that pass him by and how he did not manage to commit them."

● "The most obvious of hypocrites is he who enjoins acts of obedience but does not perform them himself, and prohibits wrongdoing but does not refrain from them himself."

✦⋆· "A hypocrite prohibits [wrongdoing] but does not refrain from it himself, and he enjoins that which he does not do himself. When he prays he complains, when he bows (ruku'a) he slumps, when he prostrates (sujud) he pecks [prostrating so fast], when he sits he spreads himself out, when he is going to bed his only concern is food even though he is full, and when he wakes up in the morning, his only concern is sleep even though he did not stay up during the night. When he speaks to you he lies, when he makes a promise he does not fulfil it, if you entrust him with anything he betrays it, and if you disagree with him he backbites you."

✦⋆· "There are four signs to a hypocrite: hardheartedness, dryness of the eyes, persistence in sinning, and greed for the world."