Explanation And Theme Of A Hadith Regarding Islamic Knowledge
@Irfan76 sir once when ghamidi Sahab was asked with the context of RiyaKari (or mushrikaana rawaiiye), that, is taking payment for teaching Islamic information valid? so he replied that there’s a difference between when a person teaches any Islamic knowledge with the notion of fulfilling any of his religious obligation, or for pleasure of Allah(in short deeni haisyat se). and between a person who does not do this act as ‘deeni haisyat’ or ‘deen par Amal karne ke liye’. In the latter case he can accept payments and he’s just like any other professor teaching in college and taking a fee for delivering information. but the in former case, he cannot do at all, because any act done with the notion of ibadah or for fulfilling Allah’s duty or for his pleasure, is only and only for Allah. and thus he cannot ask money for doing it or any worldly benefit from others by using this notion (that is that he is doing it for Allah). in example, for the latter case would be a normal college professor, taking a fee for teaching Islamic studies… the example of former case would be a person who displays a notion that he is teaching someone for the sake of Allah or for his pleasure but what he actually wants is to impress people or earn respect and name, or earn the gifts from people by using and showing off this notion (that he’s doing it for sake of Allah). so sir my question is that is this same distinction also applicable in the “act of trying to know any religious information”? just as the distinction mentioned above in the “act of teaching religious knowledge/information”? here’s the question on the live asked by g.sahab https://youtu.be/pNv0HxdZXkQ it starts on 15:20.
@Irfan76 sir like if someone does an action of ibadah for money then it becomes an act rival to God. but if we look in the second example, the man studied religious knowledge not for Allah but to actually complete course and eventually earn money by being an officer. but this wouldn’t be rival?
@Irfan76 sir i wanted to ask that if someone for example does learn religious knowledge with aim of making it as his profession to make riches, as warned in Hadith above. what category out of the 5 prohibitions will it fall under?
Since such an intention is not a rival to God and does not go against Him, it is not shirk but a neutral intention. Wordly gains are condemned when one makes them a rival to God.
@Irfan76 sir there was a question about my understanding. that you said that when our primary goal of learning is Allah and we also intend to secondarily seek worldly benefit then it’s okay. what i understand from this is that the prohibition of Hadith, may not be in the context of shirk(as of RiyaKari) that the thing of worship of Allah was used as indirect worship of something else, as happens in RiyaKari. because if the prohibition is based on a similar context of RiyaKari then even doing that thing with a side intention of actively seeking (wanting) a benefit from people by that thing would fall into ambit of Riya. Please note that here I’m not talking about the worldly benefit that comes automatically without the want for it. I’m talking about someone actively seeking or wanting to get that benefit, for example even if a person primarily aims his prayer for Allah, but also in his heart wants that people praise him for prayer, also falls in ambit of Riya (because of wanting to have or intention to have praise from people for it). but a person who prays in masjid, knows that there’s a possibility that someone might look at his prayer and praise, but he does not yearn in heart or want to gain praise from people for prayer at all, and he disregard any thoughts of that people praise him, then it’s totally okay. because he does not yearn for it but rather this prohibition in this Hadith, is in context that a person instead of fulfilling the right of following religion through it. only and only uses it for twisting and selling religion. and which thing is immorally very wrong. similar examples would be someone buying a Quran only for as a piece of decoration. or a person who never goes to masjid for prayer, but only goes there for chat with a friend, who is usually a keeper of masjid, the type of keeper who stays in masjid all the time usually. a person who opens Quran only for Arabic lessons and never for actually learning religion. in the examples of going to masjid or opening Quran for Arabic lesson, there is nothing wrong in and of itself, but when these things are done only for these purposes then it’s a bad thing because this is not what these things were given for. Quran was not given only to learn Arabic lesson, masjid was not built to only hold up chat meetings. but if these things are actively done along with their real aim meant for those acts then it’s okay. is my understanding correct sit?