Accepting An Unintended Worldly Benefit For Worship
@Irfan76 @UmerQureshi sir as it is said that while teaching the Quran, a person that takes payment is for his fixed time and not for teaching Quran, but why is it said like this? if it is said that he is paid because he helped that man gain the knowledge of Quran that’s why he’s taking it, what would be wrong in it? just like we say that a mechanic gets his payment for fixing the bike, not for his presence at the shop. if a person simply receives a payment for his service of teaching the Quran and helping someone gain knowledge of Quran, what thing would be wrong in it?
@UmerQureshi brother thank you for this. i wanted to ask that as you said that if someone is teaching in daily basis then it’s no problem because it’s taking money for the time. my question is that if asking payment for teaching Quran is permissible then, what’s wrong if someone who does not teach on daily basis, rather he charged for a single session where he before starting session told the person that I’ll be taking this money for this session etc. if the person was teaching Quran out of sake of ibadah and then asking for payment in turn for his ibadah, then it would be understandably wrong (example someone saying that pay me such money because i taught Quran to please Allah). but if he isn’t teaching it out of ibadah or fulfilling a responsibility from Allah, but is just teaching as we teach any other book of science for example. so whether he takes money because of coming to daily basis. or he takes money for teaching Quran even if he isn’t a regular teacher and someone asked him for an isolated session etc, so what’s wrong in it?
I think we should keep it simple. A person who is teaching the other person is taking payment because he locked his time for this commitment therefore, he is being paid for his time which would otherwise be spent on some other income earning activity. Same is the case for religious education or an imam appointed in a mosque, the payment being made to them is of their commitment of time which they were not otherwise obligated to commit. A teacher can demand payment on the basis of this principle and this would be fair and within ethical bounds. But if someone uses his religious education with the intention of solely making worldly gains which involves sacrificing religious principles at times to make that wordly gain, then that kind of financial gain and religious knowledge would be of no use to that person and may infact make him a sinner in the eyes of God.