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Showing Off
Same is the case with showing-off. If endeavours which should be done merely for God are done for others, then this would mean that they have taken the place of God. The Prophet (sws) is reported to have said: “The Almighty says: ‘Of all those that are associated [with Me] I am the most indifferent towards association; so anyone who has associated someone with me in any of his works, I am not with him and he is [actually] with whom he has associated with me.’” [4]
my question is showing off affection to human being in form of love and other emotion ,wishing someone happy birthday to show off affection other thing on similar line , does showing off affection inform of emotions also fall polytheistic attitude ?
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Showing Off
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@UmerQureshi i am using show off affection word in positive sense here it is to impress someone or show him or her my emotion but by heart not with intention of pride , faking or fooling someone is it a polytheistic attitude?
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No, showing off which is a polytheistic attitude refers to doing something religious to show to people instead of for God solely, which is most commonly called riyakari in urdu.
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@UmerQureshi by religious you means ritual ? if its for all good deeds like making someone feel happy by ALLAH and showing him that he or she important for me.according to me it seems a good deed so what should be my intention there that is it just for ALLAH solely?
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If endeavours which should be done merely for God are done for others, then this would mean that they have taken the place of God. For example, Salah which should be offered only for God, there should be no element of show-off in it. Pleasing parents to please God is also a good deed (or making them happy), however pleasing parents to show-off to your neighours and not to please God would be considered as showing-off.
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@UmerQureshi sir as you said in this answer if pleasing parents is done to show off to parents.
you meant like showing off to others that this deed of pleasing parents was done to seek Allah’s pleasure. so making a show off that it was done to achieve Allah’s pleasure, this would be shirkiya behavior right? as because trying to achieve Allah’s pleasure (which is actually humbling oneself towards Allah) should be for Allah and Allah only. but if by that humbling towards Allah, a man intends to gain people pleasure that they say ohh look how pious he is then it would be Shirk right?
But on the other hand if someone does an act of pleasing his father or mother, because his uncle said that if you do such and such thing to your father I’ll gift you something. so at that particular time and moment, he did that particular action to please his father to receive gift from his uncle. now here uncle also knows that he did not do it for Allah’s pleasure. and neither is not projecting that he did it for Allah’s pleasure. he totally says and accepts that I did for gift, so hence there’s no question of projecting piety here. but in this case it won’t be shirk, or Riya, because he didn’t take gift on trying to please Allah (through pleasing parents) rather wanted gift on just the act of pleasing parents. am I right sir?
another example of this comparison would be, a man feeds a cat so that the owner thinks that this person fed the cat for pleasure of Allah and that he is pious, this is shirkiya behavior because he uses projection of his piety (piety is only for Allah) to impress him. but on the other hand if he feeds the cat so that owner of cat knows that the man fed his cat, as a way to start of friendship with owner, so the owner feels happy with this gesture of respect and they start a friendship, this thing is totally okay. because nothing which is only and only for Allah (worship of Allah,piety, trying to fulfill a command of Allah etc) , is done or shown ir projected to please someone else, am I right sir?
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