, it is that your performance of that action, which is an act of worship, such as prayer, for example, in public is better than your performance in private. The Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, says of such an action, that is a disdain with which his Lord underestimated a man who prayed well in public and mistreated it. In solitude, and this is one of the most difficult mental illnesses, and its cure is: Does he not know that God sees and knows your secrets and your public deeds? And God has more right to be ashamed of Him. And the likes of these verses and narrations. This has another cure, but its composition is obscure, which is to intend, by improving it, to educate the ignorant and remind the heedless. Among the actual diseases is also abandoning work for the sake of people. It is hypocrisy according to the group, but as for working for the sake of people, that is shirk, which is hypocrisy according to the masters of God’s p