If You Announce Your Good Deeds, Watch This First | Shams Tabrizi

Shams-i Tabrizi issued a warning about charity that most people never hear: the moment a good deed is seen, it can lose its worth before Allah. This is the teaching behind one of the sharpest lines in the Maqalat, and it changes how you look at every act of kindness you have ever performed in public. Shams did not treat charity as a transaction between a giver and a receiver. He treated it as a mirror. The way you give, openly or in secret, exposes exactly who you were giving for all along. In this video we follow his reasoning from that single line into the deeper Sufi understanding of riya, the disease of showing off in worship, and ikhlas, the rare state where an act belongs entirely to Allah. Along the way we walk through the Quran's own warning about charity given to be seen, a hadith about three people dragged toward the Fire despite their apparent goodness, and a quiet tradition-held story about a dervish who fed his town in secret for years. You will also receive a small daily practice you can begin tonight, one designed to catch the ego before it speaks. You will discover: -Why Shams called the public giver jealous of his own gift -The real meaning of riya and how it disguises itself as devotion -A Quranic verse and an authentic hadith on hidden charity -What ikhlas truly demands from a sincere heart -A nightly muraqaba practice to catch the nafs in the act -Why the dignity of the receiver matters as much as the sincerity of the giver By the end of this video, you may never look at a good deed the same way again. Write in the comments: "Hidden and known." If this teaching moved you, subscribe. On this road, you do not walk alone. 🎵 If these words moved your heart, let the music carry you deeper. Our Sufi Awakening Music channel offers hours of peace, reflection, and remembrance:    / @sufiawakeningmusic   📖 And if you love the stories of the masters, walk with us through the tales of the Sufi path:    / @sufiawakeningtales   ✉️ For collaborations, questions, or to share what this path has awakened in you: [email protected] #ShamsTabrizi #SecretCharity #Sufism #Ikhlas #Riya #SufiTeachings #IslamicSpirituality #Sadaqah #NafsVsHeart #HiddenWorship #SufiWisdom #Tasawwuf Written & produced by Sufi Awakening. © 2026 Sufi Awakening. All rights reserved.