It is also well known that ‘Umar said: “When the people of innovation dispute with you using specious arguments drawn from the Quran, counter them with the Sunnah, for those versed in the Sunnah know the Book of Allah Most High better than they do.”

The hypocrite does not believe that following the Book, the Sunnah, and consensus is obligatory, for inwardly he has no religious commitment to following the revealed texts and consensus. Rather, he takes from the revealed texts and consensus whatever he can use as an argument