Hadith About Gaining Knowledge And The Warning Of Hell
@Irfan76 sir, I’m just writing this comment to further explain what my point is that I’m asking, and for that i may be using some made up terms or signs for sake of simplicity, C1 => giving someone money/help C2 => giving someone money/help with intention to please Allah = it becomes an act of worship (charity) If someone does C1 in order to please someone or in order to gain material or worldly benefit from people, it’s Mubah, i.e a doctor charging fees for treating patient or a man giving a present to a friend to please him. But if someone does C2 in order to gain benefits from people like money or to please them, it becomes shirk (as someone is associated with the aim of worship). F1 => Not eating or drinking from dawn to dusk F2 => not eating or drinking from dusk to dawn to please Allah = it becomes a worship (fasting) If someone merely does F1 for getting money, there’s no problem. For example a man challenging his friend to do this to make him used to of dieting But if someone does F2 in order to please someone or get money from someone, then again it becomes shirk (because of association of something else as an aim in worship, besides Allah) K1 => learning or getting to know Islamic knowledge merely, just like learning any worldly knowledge like history, or maths. K2 => learning Islam to serve Allah, wanting to follow his commandments and be aware of his prohibitions or serve Allah by spreading religion = becomes an act of worship (+ the way of “Islamic scholars” that persuade Islam) . So what i wanted to understand was that warnings mentioned above are for someone who does K1 for worldly gains or reasons? For example the one who does it out of curiosity or just randomly because a friend is showing him a video from his phone, so to not make him feel rude, he watches it. Or is the warning for the one that does K2 for worldly gains,? For example someone aiming for honor and Fame and praise of people that they do for a “real scholar'”. Or like a person wanting to make money by doing K2 and displaying his “real scholar” attitude So sir this is basically the type of framework of my question. So can you explain me the answers and the question that i presented in above comments and this comment?
@irfan76 sir that is exactly what I am confused about totally. Is ‘Gaining knowledge about religion’ intrinsically only something that cannot be done for any other reason than the pleasure of Allah? Like “helping someone” intrinsically is not of this category, it can be done to please someone else or it can be done to please Allah (then it becomes worship). Now further i cannot use this action of helping someone by the way of Allah (which now becomes ibadah) to collect money or pleasure of someone else (like a person showing off help of someone he did so that others would think that how God fearing and God conscious this man is). This is what would be like doing worship of Allah , but not for Allah
@irfan76 and sir isn’t it like that, that not every good thing can be done for people, some are exclusively for Allah alone like namaz, roza. So just the action of learning about Islam, just as an intrinsic action, is it something that is exclusively only for Allah? Or is it something intrinsically of of the Black color category and the intention further to do this act is what makes it either ibadah, either Mubah or either a sin etc?