Hadith About Gaining Knowledge And The Warning Of Hell
Anything, until it is proven unethical, is not forbidden, is the main principle. If you accept this principle, then we have to read the “worldly benefits” or any other intention to please someone as bad only when our conscience or our moral standards consider them unethical or immoral. That is why saying a prayer for money is bad, and leading prayers as Imam as a duty and receiving remuneration is not bad, showing saying of prayer to someone to please him and showing saying to kids to make them namazi is not bad. if you hold the principle, you can solve all such cases.
Rival to God means, God would not like it against Himself, like showing gaining knowledge of Deen for fame and not to please God. In your cited examples, ask yourself, is there anyting unethical which God won’t like. if it is not, it is not shirk or Riyakar.
@irfan76 okay sir. Just lastly i wanted to ask that what is the principle through which we can know that something can only be done solely for Allah, and no one else etc. One thing is worship, which is solely done for Allah. And other than that how can a person decide which thing is solely for Allah and which thing can be also done for other worldly intentions? Just for a little explanation that something may be pleasing to Allah but we do it for some other reasons, like the timing of namaz. Praying in earliest time of starting is beloved to Allah, but if someone does not do this out for his pleasure but to save up some time for later worldy activities. Although this is closely related to ibadah, so how to analyze which thing can be done for other reasons than Allah
@irfan76 okayyy sir, this is where i was confused with “worldly benefits”. I was thinking that anyone looking for worldly benefits as an aim for acquiring Islamic knowledge is warned about hell. That’s why I thought having learning with an aim of earning money would be greatly sinful. But that again depends on the situation of aim of earning money that makes it Haram or halal. If he is aiming that people give him money merely for learning it for Allah’s sake, this would be bad. But the latter case of someone learning Islamic knowledge with aim of earning, but through the way of taking payment for his renumeration(for teaching or giving lecture), this would not be Haram or sinful. So the same aim of learning Islamic knowledge for earning money is Haram in one case but permissible in other, am i right sir?
@Irfan76 sir i wanted to ask that in Quran surah Araf ayat 31 we are told by Allah to wear our adornments when we come to prayer. Some scholars say that Allah says us that we wear adornments when coming to mosque etc and the more the beautiful and nicer the adornment the more better and beloved to Allah, so that someone who goes to Masjid with nice adornment for Allah would please Allah more. Now i wanted to ask that someone who normally goes to Masjid with normal or less average than normal clothing when doing to Masjid, like an old shalwar kameez (and sometimes some with a little patch hole on shoulder) that they wear in the house, they go in Masjid in it, normally. But at some occasion that person is about to go for a big function or a wedding and they wear their best clothes and perfumes and watches and rings. And then time for namaz comes and he goes to Masjid for it and prays. Now he did not wear beautiful and nice adornments to fulfill that commandment (or do that mustahab act for Allah’s pleasure) as mentioned in the ayat above. But he does it because after namaz, he would go for a function. So that action which could have been done for Allah and earn his pleasure was not done for Allah’s sake but was done because of later going to function. So is this intention right? And there’s nothing wrong in it? In this case, here nothing was done, that should have been done only and only for Allah’s sake? Is it like this?