A Question About Taking Benefit From Things Only For Allah
An Imam appointed in a mosque to lead prayer gets his salary. It is not haram for him. He has to say his prayers anyways. But leading prayers earn him some money which he also wishes for. So in different scenarios, we have to consider many factors. No single ruling is applicable to every situation. In short, it is the moral judgment that decides in the end.
@Irfan76 sir for example a person (not a child) who prays namaz, later on deliberately mentions his praying of namaz in front of an elder, who he knows that, they often give pocket money for the one who prays. he mentions it deliberately to get some money from the elder and sir in another example a person (not a child) went to masjid to pray, he prayed with khushu and khuzu and did it for Allah. an elder sitting in the corner noticed his beautiful prayer. after the person finished the prayer the elder called him and presented him some good pocket money because of praying beautifully. but the person is thinking whether to accept the money or refuse it. so sir can it be said that I’m the first example the man himself deliberately tried to use the notion of his ibadah as a worldly asbaab to seek(ask) for money. so then it would be RiyaKari but the person in the second example did not tried to use his notion of ibadah to seek or demand money himself. but it automatically happened and the elder presented some money. and he just accepted it the money and took it. so sir even though when saying in Urdu, linguistically both (-seeking money. and – not seeking it but merely accepting it) fall into the sentence of “namaz par paise lena” or in English “taking money for namaz” but because of a subtle difference between them. that the first person used his ibadah deliberately to demand or seek money, hence this is rayakari. but the second example where he didn’t use his ibadah to demand it (or he didn’t tried to use his ibadah to establish a ground for money) , it automatically happened. he just only accepted the money from the elder instead of rejecting. so this accepting of his is not even a tiny bit of insincerity in ibadah and hence not close to rayakari. am i right sir?
that it is not the primary goal.