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"Whoever makes others hear of his deed, Allah will make others hear of him. And whoever shows off, Allah will show him off."

مَنْ سَمَّعَ سَمَّعَ اللَّهُ بِهِ، وَمَنْ يُرَائِي يُرَائِي اللَّهُ بِهِ

Narrated from Jundub. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 6499 (Kitāb ar-Riqāq); also Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim (muttafaq ʿalayh).

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In The Performance

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The punishment answers the crime with a kind of terrible symmetry. You wanted to be seen. On a Day when every covering is lifted, you will be — and what will be shown is not the deed but what lay beneath it, before precisely the audience you were performing for.

And the Qur'an gives us the picture of what becomes of the deed itself:

"Whoever makes others hear of his deed, Allah will make others hear of him. And whoever shows off, Allah will
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