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such as judiciary and imamate, ‐ Showing off for winning people’s confidence, and planning for
embezzling their trusts, or the like.
Only those who sacrifice the Hereafter for worldly affairs may take the path of ostentation. The
ostentatious individuals, in fact, worship others besides God, and dress piety as a means of
achieving the narrow aims.
Ostentation invalidates worship:
Muslim Jurists affirm unanimously that ostentation invalidates the worship. There is no difference
in the rule whether such a state of ostentation occurs in the first of the ritual, in the middle or in
any part of it. Likewise, ostentation invalidates the rites even if it is intended in some parts that
are out of the obligatory ritual. For instance, the prayer is invalid when the performer shows off
by joining a collective prayer, or choosing a definite mosque, imam, time or place.[1]
The actual worship is engaged in the sincerity to God. When ostentation occurs, the rituals will be
invalid and should be repeated.
Treatment of ostentation:
Ethicists mention a number of matters that eliminate this virulent defect.
‐ The ostentatious should clear the incentives of ostentation, such as the fondness of praise and
greediness in people’s amenities.
‐ The ostentatious should regard the blights and calamities that are resulted from ostentation,
such as the corruption of the deeds and God’s scorn.
‐ The ostentatious should consider that people’s praise and confidence would not improve the
livelihood, since sustenance is God’s concern, and that whoever seeks sustenance from other than
God will gain nothing but humility and decline.
‐ The ostentatious should concern the grief and the lack of tranquility that affect them because of
presuming people’s emotions and trends. They should also remark that nothing would please
people who have contradicting opinions and tendencies. This will surely bring about the most
intolerable suffering and heartache and deprive of any profit.
‐ The ostentatious should consider that God will sooner or later divulge the ill intendments and
unveil the actuality in this world or in the Hereafter. Thus, no profit is gained from the deceptive
efforts.
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