Major Sins #8
Showing off in Worship
Among the conditions for any good deed to be acceptable are that it should be
free of any kind of showing off and within the framework of the Sunnah. The
person who performs acts of worship, like praying, in order to be seen by other
people is a mushrik and his deed is unacceptable.
Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"Verily, the hypocrites seek to deceive Allaah, but it is He Who deceives them.
And when they stand up for prayer, they stand with laziness and to be seen of
men, and they do not remember Allaah but little."
[al-Nisaa' 4:142]
Similarly, the person who does a good deed so that news of it will reach other
people has also fallen into the sin of shirk. The threat of punishment for the
one who does this was reported in the hadeeth narrated by Ibn 'Abbaas (may
Allaah be pleased with him and his father), in which the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Whoever does things to be seen and
heard by others, Allaah will cause him to be seen and heard as an example to
others."
(Reported by Muslim, 4/2289).
Whoever does any act of worship for the sake of Allaah and other people, his
deeds will be unacceptable, as is stated in the hadeeth qudsi: "I am so
self-sufficient that I am in no need of having an associate. Thus he who does a
deed for someone else's sake as well as Mine will have that deed renounced by
Me to him who he associated with Me."
(Reported by Muslim, no. 2985).
It may happen that a person starts to do a deed for the sake of Allaah, then
the urge to show off comes over him. If he resists that impulse his deed will
still be acceptable, but if he submits willingly to it, then in the opinion of
most of the scholars his deed will be unacceptable.
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