(b) Types of hypocrisy
Hypocrisy falls into two categories:
Type One: doctrinal hypocrisy—the greater form—whereby a person professes Islam outwardly while concealing disbelief within. This type expels its possessor completely from the religion, and such a person will be in the lowest depths of the Fire. Allah has portrayed its adherents with every evil quality: unbelief, lack of faith, mockery of the religion and its people, derision of them, and a total inclination toward the enemies of the faith, sharing with them in their hostility to Islam. Individuals of this sort exist in every age. Whenever the strength of Islam becomes evident and they cannot oppose it openly, they pretend to embrace it in order to plot against it and its adherents from within, and so that they may live among