Showing Off And Telling People Of Our Blessing
@irfan76 and sir also by looking at Ayat 55 of Surah Najam, where it says “Therefore do not ascribe praise/purity to yourselves.” [53:32]. (Tafsir Ibn al-Arabi, 3/59) So can it be said with this ayat that praising or telling someone our traits or skill, is not permissible? In a website , it was written that Ibn Arabi while talking about Hazrat Yusuf in surah Yusuf “He [Yusuf] said [to the King of Egypt]: ‘Put me in charge of the storehouses of the land; I’m an expert custodian.’ (Qur’an, 12:55) Says about this like; Ibn al-‘Arabi “Yusuf said that because they did not know his situation, so he wanted to describe himself. Such situations are an exception to the Ayah: “Therefore do not ascribe praise/purity to yourselves.” [53:32]. (Tafsir Ibn al-Arabi, 3/59) As he said that this situation is exception to this Ayah, so by this Ayah can it be said that generally it’s not permissible?