What is the ruling on one who performs Hajj on behalf of another with the intention of earning money, while also seeking reward from Allah?

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Question:
What is the ruling on one who performs Hajj on behalf of another with the intention of earning money, while also seeking reward from Allah?

Answer:
With the intention, if his purpose is Hajj and worship, and he takes money to help him with the worship and the costs of Hajj, there is no harm in that. But if it is the opposite, if he wants the money and takes Hajj as a means to take money only, his Hajj is invalid because he wants the worldly life with the deeds of the Hereafter. And Allah the Exalted said:

Whoever desires the life of this world and its adornments

مَن كَانَ يُرِيدُ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا وَزِينَتَهَا

[Hud 11:15]

⁽¹⁵⁾ Whoever desires the life of this world and its adornments - We fully repay them for their deeds therein, and they therein will not be deprived. ⁽¹⁶⁾ Those are the ones for whom there is not in the Hereafter but the Fire. And lost is what they did therein, and worthless is what they used to do.

نُوَفِّ إِلَيْهِمْ أَعْمَالَهُمْ فِيهَا وَهُمْ فِيهَا لَا يُبْخَسُونَ أُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُمْ فِي الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا النَّارُ

[Hud 11:15-16]

So the one who takes worship as a means to take money, he wants the worldly life with the deeds of the Hereafter, may Allah protect us from that. But the opposite, if he wants the deeds of the Hereafter and takes the world as assistance for the deeds of the Hereafter, is there no harm in that? And this returns to intentions and purposes.

Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم مَن يحج حج بدل بقصد التكسب مع احتساب الأجر عند الله؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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