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It is not Allah’s purpose to leave, to abandon, the believers in the state in which you, O people, are, where the sincere are intermingle with those otherwise, till He shall distinguish (read yamīza or yumayyiza), [till] He separates, the evil one, the hypocrite, from the good, the believer, through the burdensome obligations that will reveal this [distinction] - He did this on the Day of Uhud. And it is not Allah’s purpose to apprise you of the Unseen, so that you could recognise the hypocrites from the others, before the distinguishing; but Allahu ta’ālā chooses, He selects, of His messengers (rusul) whom He will, apprising him of [some of] His Unseen, as when He apprised the Prophet "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam" of the position of the hypocrites. So believe in Allahu ta’ālā and His messengers (rusul); and if you believe and guard against, hypocrisy, then yours shall be a great wage.