Satan stands to deprive the imam of this virtue...

Satan stands to deprive the imam of this virtue, empty his deed of sincerity, thus .causing him to be lodged in Sijjeen, rendering him associating a partner with Allah, the most Great. Satan enters into the heart of imams of congregational prayers from various paths such as conceit and pretension, which is making a show of this form of worship before the public in order to win a status in their hearts and earn the reputation of being great and sublime.

For example, Satan sees so-and-so, who is a great worshipper, having attended his congregational prayers, whereupon he increases his submission, bringing him closer to himself through various means and tricks in order to get him in the end to fall in his trap.

He reminds the imam in his place of meeting, or through another way, to let people know that "So- and-so worshipper attends my congregational prayer service," finding in his heart love for this person who attends his service, demonstrating love and sincerity to him in a degree which he does not demonstrate to Allah Almighty or to His close servants even for one moment in his lifetime, especially if the attendant of the prayer service is a respected businessman.

If, God forbid, a man of distinction attends the prayer service because of losing track of his path, so he joins the ranks in his congregation, the calamity will then be greater. Satan, at the same time, does not leave the imam alone whose group is smaller in number.

He attends and insinuates to him to let people understand that "I have abandoned the world and I pray in the quarter's small mosque with the poor and the indigents." [his imam is like his predecessor, even worse, because he nurtures in his heart the vice of jealousy, too, permitting its tree to produce its fruit. Since he had no share of the good things in this life. Satan deprives him of his share in the Hereafter as well, rendering him a loser in this life and in the one to come.

This Satan does not leave me or yourselves alone when we are not imams of the congregational prayer service not because we shy away from it but our hands fall short of it, so he insinuates to us to defame the group of Muslims, to charge them, to suggest that there are faults with that group, counting our deprivation of the group as our isolation from it and abandonment of this life. We identify ourselves as being free of love for the self and for prominence.

We, then, are in a worse shape than both previous groups.