Abdullah ibn Mas'ood said:
" The believer, the munafiq and the disbeliever are like three people who came to a empty river bed.
The first one went down into it and crossed to the other side.
The next person went down into it but when he reached the midpoint the person on the banks of the river bed called out to him, saying;"Woe to you! Where are you going? To your doom? Come back to where you started from!"
Meanwhile the one on the far side called out to him, saying, "Come over here to safety!"
So the man in the middle kept looking back and forth at the two of them until a flash flood came and drowned him.
The one who made it across was the believer, and the one who was drowned was the munafiq "wavering between them" and the one who stayed on the bank was the disbeliever.
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