Encouraging people to perform acts of obedience with money
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to encourage people to perform voluntary acts of obedience through money? For example, I might say, "If you recite a part of the Qur'an, I will give you one hundred riyals?"
Answer:
Yes, but you give to all the people; you have coins and are present. If it is for one person or one of your relatives, there is nothing wrong with it. But if you say, "Whoever memorizes this, I will give him that," you cannot count the people. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to encourage people to perform voluntary acts of obedience through money? For example, I might say, "If you recite a part of the Qur'an, I will give you one hundred riyals?"
Answer:
Yes, but you give to all the people; you have coins and are present. If it is for one person or one of your relatives, there is nothing wrong with it. But if you say, "Whoever memorizes this, I will give him that," you cannot count the people. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، تابع فصل ثم إن في اتخاذ القبور أعيادًا من المفاسد العظيمة ... - 1 — islamhouse.com (1:14:11)
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