Actively Seeking Secondary Benefits For Acts Exclusively For Allah
This is different from worship ritual in the sense, that it is used for identification too. So when there is a need for the indentification, it is used. For example, in the Quran God said while declaring the final command of annihilation of Mushrikeen, that if they say prayer and pay zakat spare them.
@Irfan76 sir I am not asking about sensitivity, I’m just asking about the logic and intellect that the base for the principle
@Irfan76 I guess sir it was a general answer of a principle, that if a worship is primarily done for Allah, then making it a means for a secondary aim for benefit, is fine. like the example of a Man already a Namazı or a Muslim. gets to know that a company wants to hire Muslim, or a Namazı. so he goes there and tells that ” I fulfill your requirement of being namazı/Muslim, please hire me”. You said if he is already a Namazı/Muslim with primary aim for Allah, then seeking such secondary things through it, is permissible. I just replaced the secondary benefit of “getting the job” by “showing off”, in this same principle mentioned. But here scholars say this is Shirkiya. i just wanted to understand that how to understand this? because in terms of principle, the important point that i understood is the matter of primary aim, that if it’s Allah then it’s okay. if it’s something else then it’s shirkiya. but we see that in example of secondarily “showing off”. this principle doesn’t apply simply like this. i just want to understand what makes this second example of show off Haram? what is the missing piece that I have missed? can you please clarify me?
Do you find anything unethical here?
@Irfan76 sir coming back to our discussion about why seeking other secondary benefits from ibadah already done for Allah only is halal, but even if that İbadah is solely done for Allah already. making a show off of it later at a time, is not halal. sir as you said above in a reply that for suppose if a person had sincerely done an İbadah only for Allah as his aim. later at a time thinks to make a show off of it, you said it is Haram as “showing off has a negative connotation”. sir my question if someone for example shows off his care for cats to a person who is attached to cats, to win his heart. he makes a show off of his love for cats, will it be something negative? I’m just asking like this to understand the foundation. like lying is unethical universally, it can have grades. but if a lie is related to Allah, then it becomes a very huge crime. so is it the same case with showing off? that it is unethical, but when it is related to Allah, we say it is Shirkiya? is it something like this? maybe that’s why if someone has already done an İbadah for Allah. he can use his doing of İbadah to gain benefits from people, like job or something else etc. but he cannot use it to deceive or harm others because it’s unethical, similarly he cannot show off of it…