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and respect his high status or bring him some sort of worldly benefit.
7. For a Jāmi’aĥ or Madrasaĥ teacher to unnecessarily mention his achievements in front of his students in order to make them admire him and make them think, ‘What a great teacher we have.’
8. Mentioning many of your personal traits to somebody and then saying, ‘Do not tell anybody’ to impress him and make him think, ‘This man is so sincere, he does not wish to reveal his good deeds’.
9. Calling someone towards righteousness with the intention of convincing other people that he is a great well-wisher of Muslims, or reprimanding someone for evil to impress people into thinking, ‘He is a man of great integrity. He cannot remain silent on seeing evil.’ Whereas he does not stop the evil which exists in his own house.
10. For a Ḥāfiẓ-e-Quran or Islamic scholar to unnecessarily reveal that he is a Ḥāfiẓ or scholar hoping that other people will admire him and make special seating arrangements for him.
Baĥār-e-Sharī’at states: If a scholar lets people know that he is a scholar then there is no harm in this, but he must make sure that he does not do this out of pride because pride is prohibited (Ḥarām). In fact, he should reveal his status of being a scholar in order to express Allah’s favour upon him or so that once the public realises who he is, they will benefit from him by asking him religious queries and be encouraged to pursue knowledge. (Baĥār-e-Sharī’at, part 16, pp. 270)
11. For a pilgrim to unnecessarily publicise that he is a Ḥājī to make people respect him.
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