Not Doing A Good Deed For Fear Of Riya
This is a matter of how you look at the problem from different angles. No final verdict can be given. To some, it is not riyakari as nothing is done to show off, while to others it is still the same attitude which does or does not do something keeping in mind the pleasure of people and he is unable to do something for the pleasure of God.
@irfan76 okay sir but just want to know in what angle if we look does it fall again into shirk? If it’s simply because not doing it because of people or something else then we can say there can be thousands and thousands of cases where a person leaves an act of worship for something, like a person reading Quran for long but later feels tired so he stops, or a person decides to pray 10 Nafl prayers but in the midst of it, some guests come so he stops it after 6 Nafl in order to accompany them. The examples can be numerous. So my question is that in what angle would it fall into category of shirk and Riya? I mean if it is because of doing an act of worship for someone else, that is understandable to be setting a partner. And if we say it from the angle that the person stopped an ibadah of Allah for someone else, it means he keeps the other person or that thing above Allah, so again then what about if instead of stopping in the middle, he would have not even started to do it in the first place because of something else for example feeling tired. It was not obligatory for him to pray Nafl, so if for example someone gets a thought of praying Nafl but thinks that he feels tired so he doesn’t start at all, how is this aspect different from a person who actually started it but due to feeling tired didn’t pray the numbers of Nafl he actually intended. Or in another example if he was already at a friend’s house, he daily prays some Nafl at home at for example at about 10 pm , but since now he is at his friends house and they are playing game he skips it praying for that day all together, how is it different in that aspect from someone who actually started Nafl but didn’t complete the numbers he intended because he wanted to have fun etc. I mean if we say that that if there’s a particular reason of not doing a good deed that came into mind, then this particular reason becomes something superior to him than Allah then in above examples both latter and former example (not starting at all, or finishing up in middle of intended target) are unacceptable even if that thing is Nafl of nature. So it would basically means any thought of doing good if comes to our mind, it becomes a full obligation to fulfill that good deed, or else that reason that stopped us becomes the very thing we did shirk with etc!!