Actively Seeking Secondary Benefits For Acts Exclusively For Allah
@Irfan76 so sir can we say all things which are said that are “Exclusively for Allah” doesn’t mean that they cannot be made means for some other worldly benefit from people. As long as primary intention of pleasing Allah was present. seeking secondary benefit is okay, from people over it is okay. Is this thing as a principle Okay?
If one’s sensibility doesn’t allow him to take a benefit of being namazi, he should avoid it.
@Irfan76 sir I just wanted to ask a thing, here is an example. Ahmad does some worship, while doing worship his only aim was Allah. the worship finished. whenever he feels sad, he often tries to make himself happy by reminding himself deliberately of the ibadah he had already performed. it’s not the case that automatic thought of his worship pops into his mind and he automatically feels happiness. here he deliberately tries to think about his worship to make himself feel happy and fight this feeling of sadness, by making himself think like “remember you did such and such ibadah? Allah will give you rewards for it and protect you from hell because of it”, this makes him feel a sense of joy. here he is trying to get his own pleasure from his own worship. secondly, if instead of making himself happy like this, if later he mentions about his worship to another friend. so that his friend also feels joy, that some good rewards will come to Ahmad because of it. just in same sense whenever we get to know that some benefit will happen to someone we love, we feel a sense of joy. as Ahmad’s worship is only Allah’s right. is it okay if he uses the notion of his worship to make himself feel happy by thinking about it? or making his friend happy by mentioning it and putting the notion of his own worship in his friend’s mind? are the both permissible?