The Criterion for Showing Off When It Arises During an Act
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His Eminence the Shaykh: You mentioned in your discussion of showing off that if showing off is present from the very beginning of the act, it invalidates the entire act. So what if showing off arises during the act?
If showing off occurs during an act of worship, it is obligatory to resist it and turn away from it, and not to pay attention to it. If a person resists it but is unable to, then that does not harm him.because of the saying of Allah the Exalted: [al-Baqarah:286] But if he gives in to it and intends to show off, then if it is in a prayer or something similar where if the end is invalid, the beginning is invalid, then the prayer is invalid;Because it is not possible for us to say: the last rak'ah is defective and the first rak'ah is valid. If it is something where the ruling of the end does not extend to the beginning, such as charity, for example, then the first part is valid because it is free from showing off, and the second part is not valid. So if he set aside ten dirhams to give in charity and gave five with a pure intention, then the intention of showing off entered into the remaining five, then the first five are valid and there is no deficiency in them, and the invalidity is in the second part. This is the criterion when showing off arises in an act of worship during its course.
The first: We said that if he resists it and turns away from it and does not give in to it, then this does not harm him.
The second: If he gives in to it, we look: if the end of the act of worship is built upon its beginning, then if the end is invalid, the beginning is invalid, like prayer. Otherwise, the first part, which is free from showing off, is valid, and the second part, which is mixed with showing off, is invalid.
If showing off occurs during an act of worship, it is obligatory to resist it and turn away from it, and not to pay attention to it. If a person resists it but is unable to, then that does not harm him.because of the saying of Allah the Exalted:
Allah does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacity
لا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْساً إِلَّا وُسْعَهَاThe first: We said that if he resists it and turns away from it and does not give in to it, then this does not harm him.
The second: If he gives in to it, we look: if the end of the act of worship is built upon its beginning, then if the end is invalid, the beginning is invalid, like prayer. Otherwise, the first part, which is free from showing off, is valid, and the second part, which is mixed with showing off, is invalid.