Accepting An Unintended Worldly Benefit For Worship
@UmerQureshi sir but if for example someone who teaches maths, and says that I’ll only teach maths if such and such payment is done. and then they say that i take money for teaching maths, literally and also says he means it. so what would be Haram in it? would be just a little bit inappropriate in the sense of feeling? or haram and shirk? OR it is in this way. that for example a restaurant owner, who charges money to prepare and present food to people for feeding. But if my friend for example comes to my house and i say to him that I’ll only present food in front of you, if you pay me such money. now here actually it’s the same thing of charging someone money to present and cook food for them. but here because he’s our friend, so demanding money seems inappropriate because the bond of friendship is above and beyond taking payment and it should not be ruined by asking for payment rather nurtured further with doing things out of love etc. is the latter explanation right?
@UmerQureshi sir firstly, as you said in the 3rd paragraph that if someone uses religious knowledge for worldly purpose only, then it would be sin. i wanted to ask that what type of sin would it be? will it fall under shirk? or will it fall under not using a big blessing of Allah, to be close to him but only for worldly purpose (similarly to a person who spends his whole money on worldly things but nothing towards Allah, hence one of the big blessings to be close to him was never used to be close to him) secondly sir, but if the knowledge that is used for worldly gains only, is just for example knowledge of mathematics. i gain it only for worldly purpose, i teach it only for worldly reason. so my total relation with such worldly knowledge of mathematics was to gain in this world. would such thing be sinful? and sir lastly, i just wanted to understand that if someone for example teaches WORLDLY KNOWLEDGE ( not religious) like mathematics to someone, and if he says literally and also means it when he says that “i am charging you money, for whatever knowledge you gained from me. for whatever i teach you” and if he doesn’t mean that he is charging money for his time and efforts etc. as you said that this would be inappropriate to mean like this, but i wanted to know that, would such notion just be inappropriate only, or it would be sinful? and if sinful then in what category will it fall into of 5 sin category
One thing is religion and religious duties of a Muslim ( like obligatory ibadah or performing duties like advising others under amr-bil-maruf directive ): No financial compensation should be taken for these acts and taking any compensation would be violation of the rights of Allah that are upon us as a Muslim and in some circumstances could also be equivalent to one of the polytheistic attitudes like Rayakari or blind love for this world etc. The other thing is religous knowledge or other religious responsibility assumed or any other Worldly Knowledge ( like being a teacher or being an imam of a mosque ): Here compensation can be asked and should be paid because of the contractual commitment of the time of the person. However, if someone makes worldly gains their top priority then it is possible that in such circumstances above mentioned violations can also happen in this category.
@UmerQureshi yes sir the last thing that you said that top priority of world gain. would eventually lead a person to not be mindful of god’s boundaries and he won’t even think much before violating boundaries to get that benefit. which at sometimes prompt him to do relatively smaller violations to get benefit (like selling by lying decieving) but also bigger violations as to do worship for show off to gain benefit. please tell me if i am understanding this right, as to what you meant in the last part of this answer. but sir i was just confused that if some friend just for example comes to me to teach him for example maths. now i wasn’t feeling like teaching him much normally. but because he is my friend, and i don’t want him to be angry to me ( i want his pleasure with me) so i decided to give him a few lessons of maths. so i just wanted to ask that such isolated actions where i teach someone maths or some science lessons, for gaining thier love (which is a worldly benefit) , so such action in itself as an isolated action wouldn’t constitute shirk behavior, am i right sir? here I’m not talking about the man who is a pujaari of this world and only what matters to him is world as i explained in above paragraph. I’m talking about this action in itself is permissible right? and not shirk behavior (unlike namaz, where even a single isolated rakat prayed to please someone else would constitute shirk). am i right sir that this example of me teaching a friend maths lesson to gain his love and pleasure, is totally permissible? so just can you tell me if what i understood in paragraph one of my this answer is what you meant to say? and also that the example of maths is permissible? thank you