Have you ever been doing something – anything – in front of people that might be praise-worthy, and then stop out of fear of showing off. For example, you are with your friends and you are trying to give naseeha or making salaat and then suddenly are plagued with the notion of “am i doing this to impress people?” Minor shirk comes in the form of showing off (Riyaa), when an act of worship or good deed is for somebody else other than Allah. The scary part is that it’s not always easy to tell when your intention secretly changes, and if it even did or not. Certainly, this could be one of shaytan’s methods of deception in preventing a believer from doing a good deed. We all know the first of Imam Nawawi’s 40 Hadith. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: “Actions are (judged) by motives (niyyah), so each man will have what he intended…” Allahu Alim. May Allah purify our intentions.

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It’s at that point when a man decides to take a positive step that he is most vulnerable, but little does he know. Any move, whether its to cry a single tear or sacrifice what one holds most dear, if done with the wrong intention, becomes a nuise around his neck…

… and to think, all somebody would have to do is kick that chair of pride i stand on from underneath me