{"id":6577,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/intentions-behind-actions\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:18:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:18:43","slug":"intentions-behind-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/intentions-behind-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"Intentions Behind Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>In  islam if the intention is good an act will be rewarded. My question is  if my intention is to please allah even though I do not have the  intention to help the person is it still rewarded? For example a man  asks for help but I do not like him yet I still help him only having the  intention that Allah wants me to help him does it still count? <\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>Yes  it does and in fact you will be rewarded a lot if you do something good  in the best possible manner for the sake of God and while otherwise you  do not like to do it. However the more pious you become, the more you  find that you really want to help others and fewer people you will  dislike. <\/p>\n<div>&#8211;  Adding on to that, if i feel with my heart not to help someone but i  still do because I listen to my brain,does that till count as good  intention? I feel that the heart will lead you to good intention but  also lead you to bad intention so if I listen to my brain and ignore my  does it count as good intention?<\/div>\n<div>Forget  about brain and heart, it will confuse you. If you are helping some one  not for him to return your favour and not so that you become recognised  as a good man, then in principle there can only be two reasons that you  are helping him: (A) you are doing it because you feel sympathy for him  and by helping him you will satisfy this feeling of sympathy, or (B)  you are doing it to please the Almighty. In the latter case (B)  obviously it is a good intention that insha&#8217;Allah bring you reward. In  the former case (A) too if the person also believes in God then his  reward is guaranteed insha&#8217;Allah. However referring back to what I wrote  in answering the previous part of your question, the more pious person  becomes, the more he will find that the later two reasons (A and B) are  merging together and becoming one.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Farhad Shafti<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-01-16<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6577\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In  islam if the intention is good an act will be rewarded. My question is  if my intention is to please allah even though I do not have the  intention to help the person is it still rewarded? For example a man  asks for help but I do not like him yet I still help him only having the  intention that Allah wants me to help him does it still count? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1163],"tags":[2440,1915,2271,2439,1608],"class_list":["post-6577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-action","tag-help","tag-intetions","tag-objective","tag-reward"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Intentions Behind Actions - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/intentions-behind-actions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Intentions Behind Actions - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In islam if the intention is good an act will be rewarded. 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