3-Intending this World or Intending the Hereafter | Imam Bin Uthaymeen

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03- نية الدنيا ونية الآخرة / فوائد العثيمين من شرح رياض الصالحين / مشروع كبار العلماء 3-Intending this World or Intending the Hereafter If you intend Allah and the abode of the Hereafter in your actions, it will come your way. However, if you intend worldly benefit, it may or may not come your way. (Allah - the Exalted – says): “Whosoever desires the quick-passing (this world), We readily grant him what We will for whom We like” (Al-Israa: 18). He did not say, “We readily grant him what he desires.” (Allah said): “We readily grant him what We will” not what he desires; “for whom We want”, not for everybody. Therefore, He limited what will readily be granted, which is what the person wanted, and to whom it will be granted. That is to say, among the people are those who will be granted their worldly desires while others will be granted only a share of it, and some will not be given anything at all. This is the meaning of His saying: “We readily grant him what We will for whom We like” (Al-Israa: 18). But: “And whosoever desires the Hereafter and strives for it, with the necessary effort due to it while he is a believer, then such are the ones whose striving shall be appreciated, (thanked and rewarded by Allah)” (Al-Israa: 19). He will certainly achieve the reward of this deed that he does for the sake of Allah and the abode of the Hereafter.