Accepting An Unintended Worldly Benefit For Worship
This has already been explained in the following thread : Discussion 76486
@Irfan76 @UmerQureshi sir I wanted to understand a situation that for example a person was praying on his own in masjid and some people joined him in Salah and prayed with him. Now he after finishing prayers, asks money from people that prayed behind him. and when he is asked that why are you taking money? he says “I am not taking money from you for my own prayer, but I’m taking money from you because your prayer was done through me (I helped you in doing your prayer)”. now is this action of his shirk/rayakari? one may say that this action is not appropriate because not good or likeable by Allah. but would you action of his be shirk/rayakari? because he is not taking money for his own worship but rather for the cause of making the worship of other people come through. for causing them to complete their worship. so would it be shirk?