Explanation And Theme Of A Hadith Regarding Islamic Knowledge
@Irfan76 sir i wanted to give you an example and ask a question regarding that the example is that….. a man who usually studies religion for his own need of following religion, so that he can carry out his religious duties, he studied about religion in whatever his daily life situations require him. he learned namaz, roza and other business dealing rulings, so that he can do his business according to religion. but he didn’t studied any inheritance laws or rulings because he is neither married nor has children, so it didn’t require him to follow religion in that aspect. but nevertheless he comes across a situation where has to give a CSS exam and in exam the syllabus contains knowledge of Islamic inheritance. so at that instance of time, he studies that specific portion/topic of Islamic knowledge (about inheritance) purely out of aim to pass his exams. the question is…. that is this understanding correct? that the prohibition mentioned in the above Hadith is not on the basis of Riya, or any mushrikaana behavior (like if a person does it then he is actually giving someone/something else the right of Allah). but it is based on, that doing such a thing would be very morally inappropriate because the knowledge of religion is given for religion and a person uses it only for worldly purpose. like if a person uses medical profession not for medically helping people but actually to get sponsorship from pharmaceutical companies. if the prohibition is based on such a rule then the case mentioned in above example would be fine and permissible because he doesn’t always gain religious knowledge for world, only in this instance, did he acquired it for a worldly gain (of passing exam). because if the prohibition was based on Riya/Mushrikaana behavior then, each and every instance of any piece of knowledge if acquired primarily for any other benefit then it would be have been shirk and Haram. and the case of example mentioned above would be shirk. as using namaz for getting a reputation is shirk, it doesn’t matter if a person prays 50 namaz for Allah but one for reputation, still it’s a shirk (even if it’s that one namaz is all for Allah but a sajdah is done for reputation). so similarly even if a person learns every piece of knowledge of religion for acting on Allah’s religion but even one topic for worldly benefit primarily then it would be shirk. so the prohibition mentioned above is not on the basis of Riya/mushrikaana rawaiiye but on the basis of not aiming the thing for which the knowledge was revealed