Is it permissible for a person to seek the reward of the Hereafter and the benefits of this world simultaneously through good deeds?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: Is it permissible for a person to do a good deed, such as charity for example, and seek through it the Hereafter, and also seek what Allah has decreed for it in terms of benefits in this world?
Answer:
Yes, there is nothing wrong with it. What is forbidden is that he seeks only this world. But if he seeks this world and the Hereafter[Al-Baqarah 2:201] there is nothing wrong with it. What is forbidden is that he does not intend anything by his deeds and worship except this world. That is what is forbidden.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: Is it permissible for a person to do a good deed, such as charity for example, and seek through it the Hereafter, and also seek what Allah has decreed for it in terms of benefits in this world?
Answer:
Yes, there is nothing wrong with it. What is forbidden is that he seeks only this world. But if he seeks this world and the Hereafter
Our Lord, give us in this world [that which is] good and in the Hereafter [that which is] good
رَبَّنَا آتِنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ حَسَنَةً
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [3436/3196] هل يجوز أن يريد الإنسان بالعمل الصالح ثواب الآخرة وفوائد الدنيا معاً؟ - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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