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وَ ہُمۡ یَحۡسَبُوۡنَ اَ نَّہُمۡ یُحۡسِنُوۡنَ صُنۡعًا ﴿۱۰۴﴾
And they are under the impression that they are doing good deeds.
[Kanz-ul-Īmān (Translation of Quran)] (Part 16, Sūraĥ Al-Kaĥf, verse 104)
Commenting on the foregoing verse, a renowned exegetist of Ḥadīš and Quran Muftī Aḥmad Yār Khān Na’īmī عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـقَـوِی has stated: ‘This shows that the person who performs good deeds bearing hardships but is not benefitted by his deeds is more unfortunate than even a sinner. He remains under the impression that he is a righteous a person. We seek refuge of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ from this state.’ (Nūr-ul-‘Irfān, pp. 485)
Bragging about one’s deeds and blowing one’s own trumpet is a bad habit. Allah عَـزَّوَجَــلَّ has said in the 32nd verse of Sūraĥ An-Najm in part 27:
ہُوَ اَعۡـلَمُ بِکُمۡ اِذۡ اَنۡشَاَکُمۡ مِّنَ الۡاَرۡضِ وَ اِذۡ اَنۡتُمۡ اَجِنَّۃٌ فِیۡ بُطُوۡنِ اُمَّہٰتِکُمۡ ۚ فَلَا تُزَکُّـوۡۤا اَنۡفُسَکُمۡ ؕ ہُوَ اَعۡـلَمُ بِمَنِ اتَّقٰی ٪﴿۳۲﴾
He knows you very well – since He has created you from earth, and when you were foetuses in your mothers’ wombs; therefore do not, on your own, claim yourselves to be clean; He well knows who are the pious. [Kanz-ul-Īmān (Translation of Quran)]
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