You're broke but you still try to act like you got money in front of your friends? Suit yourself. You tell people your dad is an artist when he's really a handyman? Your lie. Don't get me wrong, I don't approve of that and I still think they're all lies that keep you from living your life happily, but to me, they are way less than religious appearances on the scale of audacity.
Why would someone pretend to pray or read the Qur'an or say zikr or make du'aa in front of people? These acts were made so a person could have faith, not so you could hang up a flashing neon, "Look at me! I'm religious!" sign on your head! If you think being religious is such a good thing, then why don't you really TRY to be religious? Or maybe you just want to appear religious because that's what other people think is right, but you truly couldn't care less?
Most human beings have a love for appearances that is much like all those other materialistic loves we have. Sometimes it's because we like to give out an image of who we'd LIKE to be, as opposed to who we ARE, and this is often because it feels to a person like as long as something is not out there in the open, then maybe it's not true, and the way everyone sees you is actually true. Sometimes it's because a person simply wants other to see them in the way others deem as right and appropriate and this, in my opinion, is much, much worse than the former case.
They say the lie becomes the truth, but I don't think that's entirely correct. A lie will always be a lie, no matter what. You keep thinking that you'll deal with it, it'll go away. The minute someone else finds out, poof. The volcano of truth comes tumbling down, lava and all, on your head.
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