Hadith About Gaining Knowledge And The Warning Of Hell
@irfan76 okay sir, sir so if for example a lecturer of Islamic science learns a topic of Islam with intention to deliver the lecture in a university regarding it and earn money, or if someone learns it in order to teach someone and get money instead for teaching, so although he is doing it for worldly reasons, but this won’t be a sin like this? I mean he clearly fits the wordings of Hadith, “seeking knowledge (Islamic) for worldly reason”? Or someone memorizes Quran passages, to take part in a competition and get prizes, so it would be just like the example of someone memorizing a normal book for getting prizes, neither sin nor sawab? Or does this hadith tell about someone who learns it in a way of worship but uses such notion projecting (that he learned it for Allah) for worldly benefits. Like for example a person X , sees that scholars are very much famous and favored by people because they learn religion to fulfill their own and communal obligations set by Allah, they do it for pleasure of Allah, and people, knowing that they do it for Allah and fulfill their duty made on them by Allah, adore them. This image of them in eyes of people, make them an apple of eye for people, people honor them, people love them, people send them lots of gifts out of love, people fix front seats for them in occasions and functions. All of this not just because they have information about Islam in their brains but their seeking of knowledge for Allah’s pleasure and duty. So the person X wants to have such a status, so he also learns like scholars and in a way projects and displays himself to people that he has also done it like the path of those scholars, whose aim is Allah’s pleasure. So he makes such display of his image like he did this for Allah, so that people consider him the “real scholar” not like an information machine but “a real scholar” who does it for Allah, but the real motive behind this seeking and projection of this image is just to gain that status. So such a person going and seeking knowledge in such way is the one sinful and in hell, because he projects himself to be doing it for Allah (in other words be the “real scholar” who is a worshipper while gaining knowledge) only to gain status and money etc. So he uses this worshipping to earn money and status. Because scholars are not honored by people just because they have information in mind about Islam. but because they learn for Allah, they teach for Allah. We can see it that when anyone who says that they learn about religions just as a hobby is not honored like the one who does the same course of action with intention of doing it for Allah and to do service of Allah’s s Deen. So sir can the Hadith above be interpreted in above manner or it would be like even a mere fitting of religious knowledge in mind with any other intention is sinful (like a lecturer in University, or a Quran competition player who memorizes ayat for prize)? Can you explain what does that hadith explain sir?
Kindly spend some time on the principle I mentioned above. and things will get clear with the passage of time.