عَنْ مَحْمُودِ بْنِ لَبِيدٍ رضي الله عنه قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «إنَّ أخْوَفَ ما أخافُ عليكم الشِّركُ الأصْغَرُ»، قالوا: وما الشِّركُ الأصْغَرُ يا رسولَ اللهِ؟ قال: «الرِّياءُ؛ يقولُ اللهُ - عزَّ وجلَّ - لهم يومَ القِيامةِ إذا جُزِيَ الناسُ بأعمالِهم: اذْهَبوا إلى الذين كنتُم تُراؤون في الدُّنيا، فانظُروا هل تَجِدون عِندَهُم جزاءً؟!»
Maḥmūd ibn Labīd narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said:
1. The thing I fear for you most is the lesser idolatry. 2. People said: What is the lesser idolatry, Messenger of God? 3. He said: Dissimulation. 4. When mankind are given the reward for their deeds on the Day of Judgement, God, Mighty and Exalted, will say to them: 5. Go to those for whom you dissimulated during your lives and find out whether they have some reward for you.
Related by Ahmad in al-Musnad , 23630 ; al-Bayhaqī in Shu‘ab al-Īmān , 6412.
Luqmān said to his son, admonishing him: ‘My dear son! Do not associate any partners with God; for, to associate partners with Him is indeed a great wrong’.
(31: 13)
The hypocrites seek to deceive God, the while it is He who causes them to be deceived [by themselves]. When they rise to pray, they rise reluctantly, only to be seen by people, remembering God but seldom.
(4: 142)
Believers, do not render your charitable deeds worthless by vaunting your generosity and hurting others, as does he who spends his wealth to impress people, while he believes neither in God nor in the Last Day.
(2: 264)
It has been revealed to you, and to those before you, that if you ever associate partners with God, all your works shall certainly come to nothing, and you shall certainly be among the lost.
(39: 65)
As for those who desire only the life of this world and its bounties, We shall fully repay them in this life for all they do, and they shall suffer no diminution of their just dues. (15) It is they who, in the life to come, shall have nothing but the Fire. In vain shall be all that they have done in this world, and worthless shall be all their actions.
(11: 15-16)
Yet they were ordered to do nothing more than to serve God, to worship Him alone with sincere dedication and purity of faith.
(98: 5)
