Usually secrecy is for evil ends, or from questionable motives, or because the person seeking secrecy is ashamed of himself and knows that's if his acts or motives become known, he would make himself odious. Islam therefore disapproves of secrecy and loves and enjoins openness in all consultation and doings. But there are three things in which secrecy is permissible, and indeed laudable, provided the motive be purely unselfish to earn "the good pleasure of Allah" :

Allah said in Quran 3:114

" In most of their secret talks there is no good: but if one exhorts to a deed of charity or justice or conciliation between men,(secrecy is permissible): To him who does this, seeking the good pleasure of Allah, We shall soon give a reward of the highest (value)".

(1) If you are doing a deed of charity or beneficence, whether in giving material things or in helping in moral, intellectual, or spiritual matters; here publicity may not be agreeable to the recipient of your beneficence, and you have to think of his feelings;

(2) Where an unpleasant act of justice or correction has to be done: this should be done, but there is no virtue in publishing it abroad and causing humiliation to some parties or adding to their humiliation by publicity;

NB: This does not apply to he whose intention is to dwarf or starve our iman by speaking in oppose to Allah and his messenger which in turn turns us away from our original instinct, as such a person can be openly refuted by means prescribe by our prophet.

(3) The last case from what I have compiled is where there is a delicate question of conciliating parties to a quarrel; they may be very touchy about publicity but quite amenable to the influence of a man acting in private.



May Allah ease our affair and safe guard our soul to the truth.