Benefits Concerning Transactions

Question: is it considered showing off for a person to conceal from others his own lapses, heedlessness, and shortcomings, and the like—without doing anything that would suggest their absence—when all that he has done is merely concealment?

Question: is the one who is praised for what is not in him obliged to clarify to the listeners that such praise is contrary to reality, or is he not obliged to do so?

Question: when a person is praised for something that is not actually in him, and a measure of joy enters his heart in accordance with normal human nature—while he neither seeks to be praised for what he does not possess...

Question: If a believer performed righteous deeds with sincere intention, and then after some time spoke of them, how could their reward be lost when they were done sincerely?