zainab bala
Allah is sufficient.
Among the conditions for any good deed to be acceptable is that it should be free of any kind of showing off, and that it must be in accordance with the Sunnah. One who performs an act of worship, like praying, in order to be seen by other people is a mushrik, and his deed is unacceptable. Allah says:
''Verily, the hypocrites seek to decieve Allah, but it is He Who decieves them. And when they stand up for prayer, they stand with laziness and to be seen of men, and they do not remember Allah but little.''
[Surah an-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 hadith narrated by Ibn Abbas (r.a), in which the Prophet (s.a.w) said: ''Whoever does things to be seen and heard by others, Allah will cause him to be seen and heard as an example to others.'' Reported by Muslim, 4/2289.
If one does any act of worship seeking the pleasure of people as well as that of Allah, his deeds will be unacceptable, as is stated in the Hadith 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 associate with Me.'' Reported by Muslim, 2985.
It may happen that a person starts to do a deed for the sake of Allah, but then the urge to show off comes over him. If he resists that impulse, his deeds will be acceptable, but if he submits willingly to it, then in the opinion of most scholars his deed will be unacceptable.
By Shaikh Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid.
''Verily, the hypocrites seek to decieve Allah, but it is He Who decieves them. And when they stand up for prayer, they stand with laziness and to be seen of men, and they do not remember Allah but little.''
[Surah an-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 hadith narrated by Ibn Abbas (r.a), in which the Prophet (s.a.w) said: ''Whoever does things to be seen and heard by others, Allah will cause him to be seen and heard as an example to others.'' Reported by Muslim, 4/2289.
If one does any act of worship seeking the pleasure of people as well as that of Allah, his deeds will be unacceptable, as is stated in the Hadith 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 associate with Me.'' Reported by Muslim, 2985.
It may happen that a person starts to do a deed for the sake of Allah, but then the urge to show off comes over him. If he resists that impulse, his deeds will be acceptable, but if he submits willingly to it, then in the opinion of most scholars his deed will be unacceptable.
By Shaikh Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid.
