Not to be ostentatious in fasting

How many who subject themselves to austerities before the gaze of others to perpetuate their names

"...how many those who subsist on the coarsest bread, who take for their only seat the grass of the field, and who undergo every manner of hardship, merely to maintain their superiority in the eyes of men! Thus do We expose their deeds, that this may serve as a warning unto others. These are the ones who subject themselves to all manner of austerities before the gaze of others in the hope of perpetuating their names, whilst in reality no mention shall remain of them save in the curses and imprecations of the dwellers of earth and heaven."

(Bahá'u'lláh, Summons of the Lord of Hosts, Súriy-i-Haykal, par. 86)

See also

• Not to be ostentatious with righteousness
• Not to give ostentatiously to the poor