LessonsQur’anic Argumentation: Doctrinal and Behavioral HypocrisyQuiz

The six behavioral patterns can lead to similar failures by different routes. Their distinctive feature is the motive that draws a person away from professed duty and principled action.

1. Group conformity — approval or social pressure.
2. Dominant pleasures — immediate appetite.
3. Greed, envy and rancor — wealth, rivalry or resentment.
4. Total absorption in livelihood — sustained worldly preoccupation.
5. Doubts with strategic affiliation — uncertainty, fear or advantage.
6. Kinship over obligation — partisan solidarity and misplaced loyalty.

Identifying the motive permits more precise moral assessment. Good correction requires asking which attachment is producing which failing, rather than treating all weaknesses as though they arose from a single cause.

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Comparing the six behavioral patterns

Qur’anic Argumentation: Doctrinal and Behavioral Hypocrisy

The six behavioral patterns can lead to similar failures by different routes. Their distinctive feature is the motive that draws a person away from professed duty and principled action.

1. Group conformity — approval or social pressure.
2. Dominant pleasures — immediate appetite.
3. Greed, envy and rancor — wealth, rivalry or resentment.
4. Total absorption in livelihood — sustained worldly preoccupation.
5. Doubts with strategic affiliation — uncertainty, fear or advantage.
6. Kinship over obligation — partisan solidarity and misplaced loyalty.

Identifying the motive permits more precise moral assessment. Good correction requires asking which attachment is producing which failing, rather than treating all weaknesses as though they arose from a single cause.