Hadith About Gaining Knowledge And The Warning Of Hell
Take the example of Hajj, God allowed to get financial benefit from Hajj, it is not the primary goal. لَيْسَ عَلَيْكُمْ جُنَاحٌ أَن تَبْتَغُوا فَضْلًا مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ ۚ فَإِذَا أَفَضْتُم مِّنْ عَرَفَاتٍ فَاذْكُرُوا اللَّهَ عِندَ الْمَشْعَرِ الْحَرَامِ ۖ وَاذْكُرُوهُ كَمَا هَدَاكُمْ وَإِن كُنتُم مِّن قَبْلِهِ لَمِنَ الضَّالِّينَ 2: 198
@Irfan76 sir in a lesson of Meezan ghamidi Sahab while addressing Riya, he said that “logon ki riayat se ki jaane waali cheezen, yani Woh cheezen jinka taaluq deen se hai, kyun ke Deen toh sar ta sar Allah ke Liye hai, ibaadaat sar ta sar Allah ke Liye” And also in last event of ask ghamidi live, he answered my question about taking payment on teaching Quran and other religious lectures “Woh cheezen jo insan Deen ki kisi zimmedari ko Pura karne ke Liye karta hai ya jiska taaluq aakhirat me naama-e-Aamal se ho, Jese namaz hai roza hai, kisi ki madad hai. Woh sırf Allah ke Liye honi chahiye… Aur poori yaksoohi ke Saath Allah hi ke Liye honi chahiye. Toh unpar koi muhafaza (payment) nahi Leni chahiye” Sir so in this video of Ghamidi Sahab, https://youtu.be/Lrk3sWhFOzU At about 29:20 he says that “Sach bolna, paigambar na bhi aata, tab bhi Deen hai. Nahaana ya maell lagi ho, usse saaf karna, paigambar naa bhi aata, tab bhi Deen hai” I guess he was speaking about it as Deen e fıtrat. But i feel confused. Because as he said that even taking a bath or removing dirt or impurity is Deen (in terms of deen e fıtrat). And in above excerpt he said that ‘fulfilment of any deeni responsibility’ should only be done for Allah and Allah only and further that no payment should be taken for it. 1) So i was thinking that a person who for example owns a business and has a partner. So his partner asks for some financial details and the person gets some thoughts about lying, but then he realizes that if he lies and his lie is caught later, his partner would finish this partnership and his business would be in loss, so the reason for choosing not to lie and telling the truth facts, was not to fulfill or maintain religious responsibly (that lying would cause Allah’s displeasure), but it was done to save business. I mean before i used to think that this would be fine and okay but the person won’t be getting any rewards from Allah because he didn’t refrain from lying to be far from Allah’s displeasure but it was just to avoid worldly loses through people. But after hearing the video, i felt confused that as ghamidi sahab says that not lying and saying truth is Deen and someone doing that not for Allah but for worldly reason. 2) and the second example that someone who cleans himself up from dirt and impurity, not for Allah but because for example he wants to feel personally comfortable Or he is meeting someone so in order to please them by looking clean and tidy, he washes himself up, so again i used to think that washing or cleaning oneself is a normal thing, which is allowed to be done for worldly reasons also (feeling comfortable, pleasing someone by looking good, or for example a model who earns money for photoshoot and remains extra clean for his career demands) OR it can be done for fulfilling religious responsibility hence becoming Deen (like wuzu, ghusl e janabah, ghusl e haiz) BUT watching above video and reading excerpt above i felt confused that cleaning oneself is also in itself Deen? And fulfilling any Deeni thing is only to be done for Allah only? But sir, Because we know that helping someone is also a Deeni act and act of goodness. But yet we can do it for both reasons. For religious fulfilment and naama e amaal (for Allah’s sake) Or we can do it for exchange of services and earning So sir can you explain me what did he mean by looking at those 2 things (excerpt and video), i feel like maybe I’m mixing a few things up like maybe when ghamidi Sahab says that these 2 things are Deen-e-fitrat then he did not meant that doing these 2 things is intrinsically fulfilment of religious responsibility or things a person does for naama e amaal. But he actually meant that these 2 things is what a human (excluding religious sentiments) naturally feels inclined to as something which has good consequences (like health and healthy relations, cleanliness). And so even though helping someone in general sense becomes a Deen-e-fitrat because we also like this thing to be done to us. But this does not mean that in itself the act is of religious fulfilment. But when it is done for Allah, then it TRULY becomes the act of religious fulfilment which ghamidi sahab was talking about in Ask Ghamid episode excerpt. So sir can you please clear the examples that i mentioned as 1) and 2) and explain me these 2 things below; – what Ghamidi Sahab meant in Ask Ghamidi excerpt i mentioned as fulfilling deeni zimmedari, they are different things than simply the act which he categorises as Deeni (deen e fıtrat) acts like bathing oneself and speaking truth. Those acts when done for purposes of fulfilling Allah’s command or for purpose of naama-e-Aamal, only then do they come under category of what Ghamidi Sahab says “deeni zimmedari ko Pura karne ke Liye” and that purpose of fulfilment of religious command should only be for Allah’s sake. Other than that those Deen – e – fıtrat acts can be done for other purposes also and also for purposes of fulfilling religious commands, am i right sir? – and sir can you explain what exactly is Deen-e-fitrat? Is it just simply the inclination of what a human feels towards something that he finds as something with good consequences (on himself or others or society). In simple words the acts of Deen-e-fitrat are not in themselves fulfilment of religious commands but these acts are which can be used to fulfill religious commands and naama e amaal? Am i right sir?