Riya is one of the many names of the Hindu Goddess Pavarti. Pitiable is the condition of the devotees, worshippers, leaders and followers of Friday congregations and men of high knowledge and learning! whether all spiritual effort is for God or for selfish motives. The acts by means of which they aim to secure paradise for themselves are transformed by him into the means of their destruction and doom. Do not allow the light of your nature to be turned into the gloom of apostasy. 1 (2005) and director-cinematographer Santhosh Sivan's Malayalam horror film Ananthabhadram (2005). But if he believes in them, and for the sake of winning peoples’ hearts and for obtaining worldly honor and dignity he makes an ostentation of them, though he is not reckoned among munafiqun, this kind of hypocrisy will cause the light of faith to fade away from his heart and to make the darkness of infidelity and faithlessness to occupy the domain of his heart. If we are acting like the polytheists we are causing harm to ourselves, because: ﴿فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ غَنِيٌّ عَنْ الْعَالَمِينَ.﴾. God willing, we shall also discuss this subject while commenting upon certain other ahadith; I ask for God’s help in this regard. I accept only those acts that are purely done for My sake.”2. Our vision does not possess enough power to behold the magnificence of that world, which has been described in the speeches of the holy prophets of God, especially in the all-embracing revelations of the Khatim al-nabiyyin (Seal of the prophets), who perceived those truths through Divine revelations, saw them, heard them, and then asked us to acquire them. Neither [the vastness of] My earth, nor [that of] My heaven can contain Me. Amir al-mu’minin ‘Ali (A) reports that the Prophet (S) said, “One who does some act liked by God in order to show off to people, and in secret manifests such qualities as are abominations to God, he shall encounter God’s anger and wrath on the Day of Resurrection.”5. One who is guilty of this sin, if he does not believe genuinely in those ideas which he pretends to believe in, is counted among the munafiqun (hypocrites), whose place is in the Fire, and he is doomed to eternal damnation and his punishment is the severest of punishments. He approaches him and makes him aware that he is so unmindful of worldly gains that he is content to spend his time in a small local mosque of a poor neighborhood. You are guilty of violation of Divine honor in your heart that belongs to the celestial world, in front of the angels of God and His prophets. The Al-Islam.org site and the DILP are entirely supported by individual donors and well wishers. God forbid, lest the gravity of your deeds should arouse His anger and should it overcome His tolerance and willingness to conceal sins, as you have read in the hadith. The following tradition in al-Kafi points to the same fact: عَنْ جَرَّاحٍ المَدَائِنِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِاللهِ، عَلَيْهِ السَّلامُ، فِي قَوْلِ اللهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: ﴿فَمَنْ كَانَ يَرْجُو لِقَاءَ رَبِّهِ فَلْيَعْمَلْ عَمَلاً صَالِحاً وَلا يُشْرِكْ بِعِبَادَةِ رَبِّهِ أَحَداً.﴾ قَالَ: الرَّجُلُ يَعْمَلُ شَيْئاً مِنَ الثَّوَابِ لا يَطْلُبُ بِهِ وَجْهَ اللهِ إِنَّمَا يَطْلُبُ تَزْكِيَةَ النَّاسِ يَشْتَهِي أَنْ يُسْمِعَ بِهِ النَّاسَ، فَهَذَا الَّذِي أَشْرَكَ بِعِبَادَةِ رَبِّهِ. Riya was born in 18 in Fukuoka Prefecture. The hypocrite feigns integrity, uprightness, virtue, honesty and piety without an authentic intention of acquiring these traits for the sake of God. The deeds, which would have led one to ‘Illiyyin-the highest heaven, are so distorted that their performer is thrown into Sijjin by angels at the command of God. But the same trait is considered to be a shortcoming in the case of a wali or ‘arif bi-Allah, as for them it amounts to nifaq or shirk. This is a warning for us to be cautious lest, God forbid, we do something to incur the wrath of the King of kings and the Most Merciful of the merciful: We conclude this section with a tradition reported from the commander of the pious, Amir al-mu’minin (A), recorded in al-Kafi. God Almighty is intolerant regarding His Dignity and honor. Now, my friend, do as you please; either accept it or reject it. 2. Cure your vision, which suffers from blindness so that you are not raised blind on the Day of Judgment and complain to the Almighty: ﴿رَبِّ لِمَ حَشَرْتَنِي أَعْمَى وَقَدْ كُنْتُ بَصِيراً.﴾. Other name options, having Libra moon sign are name starting with : Or such a person, with his gestures and utterances, poses himself to be a staunch follower of the true faith, and this is a more common kind of riya’ than the first one. O God! Wondering what is this? (Of course, this is not the same as tafwid, which is a false notion, as proved elsewhere.). الَّتِي تَطَّلِعُ عَلَى الْأَفْئِدَةِ.﴾. It is possible that your act produces a result just contrary to your wish. Therefore, it is clear that the submission, which is the gratification and comfort of the heart, is quite a different thing from knowledge, which is the gratification of the mind. A validation e-mail has been sent to your e-mail address. Anyway, ask God Almighty, through supplication and humble entreaties all the time, especially in loneliness, to guide you and to illuminate your heart with the light of tawhid. Because we ordinary human beings usually do not belong to the above-mentioned two states. R : Persons feel things strongly and their rich, intense inner life emanates outwardI : Persons are a compassionate person who feels things deeplyY : Persons are freedom-loving and like to break rules and push the envelopeA : Persons are their own person: ambitious and freethinking.