Power Increases Hypocrisy
Report on Hypocrisy
By
Dr Mujeeb-Ur-Rehman
Table of Contents
1 Origin of word Hypocrisy and Hypocrite 1
1.1 Historical Perspective 1
2 Use of Word Hypocrisy in Religion 2
3 Hypocrisy: Characteristic of only Human Being 3
3.1 Reasons of Human Being Hypocrisy 3
3.1.1 Social Progress and Hypocrisy 4
3.1.2 Hypocrisy and Modularity of Human Brain 5
3.2 Hypocrisy As Viewed by the Qur'an and Sunnah 7
3.2.1 Chief of the Hypocrites in Islamic History 9
3.2.2 Evil Intensions of Abdullah Bin Ubai 11
3.2.3 Accusing the Wife of the Prophet (MBUH) by hypocrites: 13
4 Hypocrisy as a Force in Human History 15
4.1 Human Brain and Hypocrisy 16
4.2 Power Increases Hypocrisy 20
5 Hypocrisy in Literature and Poetry 21
5.1 Shakespeare 23
5.2 Moliere's Tartuffe and the Religious Hypocrisy 25
5.3 Alama Iqbal few verses about hypocrisy 26
6 Cure of Hypocrisy 27
1 Origin of word Hypocrisy and Hypocrite
The word hypocrisy comes from the Greek (hypokrisis), which means jealousy, play-acting and performance. The word hypocrite is from the Greek word hypokritēs, the agentive noun associated with judgment critics apparently because the performance of a dramatic text by an actor was to involve a degree of interpretation, or assessment.
Alternatively, the word hypocrisy is a combination of the Greek prefix hypo-, meaning under, and the verb krinein, meaning "to separate or decide". Thus the original meaning implied a deficiency in the ability to separate or decide. This deficiency, as it pertains to one's own beliefs and feelings, informs the word's modern meaning.
1.1 Historical Perspective
Originally word Hypokrisis was applied to any sort of public performance (including the art of speech-making), whereas word hypokrites was a technical term for a stage actor and was not considered an appropriate role for a public figure. In Athens in the 4th century BC, for example, the great speaker Demosthenes ridiculed his rival Aeschines, who
By
Dr Mujeeb-Ur-Rehman
Table of Contents
1 Origin of word Hypocrisy and Hypocrite 1
1.1 Historical Perspective 1
2 Use of Word Hypocrisy in Religion 2
3 Hypocrisy: Characteristic of only Human Being 3
3.1 Reasons of Human Being Hypocrisy 3
3.1.1 Social Progress and Hypocrisy 4
3.1.2 Hypocrisy and Modularity of Human Brain 5
3.2 Hypocrisy As Viewed by the Qur'an and Sunnah 7
3.2.1 Chief of the Hypocrites in Islamic History 9
3.2.2 Evil Intensions of Abdullah Bin Ubai 11
3.2.3 Accusing the Wife of the Prophet (MBUH) by hypocrites: 13
4 Hypocrisy as a Force in Human History 15
4.1 Human Brain and Hypocrisy 16
4.2 Power Increases Hypocrisy 20
5 Hypocrisy in Literature and Poetry 21
5.1 Shakespeare 23
5.2 Moliere's Tartuffe and the Religious Hypocrisy 25
5.3 Alama Iqbal few verses about hypocrisy 26
6 Cure of Hypocrisy 27
1 Origin of word Hypocrisy and Hypocrite
The word hypocrisy comes from the Greek (hypokrisis), which means jealousy, play-acting and performance. The word hypocrite is from the Greek word hypokritēs, the agentive noun associated with judgment critics apparently because the performance of a dramatic text by an actor was to involve a degree of interpretation, or assessment.
Alternatively, the word hypocrisy is a combination of the Greek prefix hypo-, meaning under, and the verb krinein, meaning "to separate or decide". Thus the original meaning implied a deficiency in the ability to separate or decide. This deficiency, as it pertains to one's own beliefs and feelings, informs the word's modern meaning.
1.1 Historical Perspective
Originally word Hypokrisis was applied to any sort of public performance (including the art of speech-making), whereas word hypokrites was a technical term for a stage actor and was not considered an appropriate role for a public figure. In Athens in the 4th century BC, for example, the great speaker Demosthenes ridiculed his rival Aeschines, who