{"id":6584,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/doing-good-for-reward\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:26:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:26:52","slug":"doing-good-for-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/doing-good-for-reward\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing Good For Reward"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>I  wanted to know why couldn\u2019t we build our moralities based on moral  values and not in the greed of gaining paradise or fear of Hell?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>Regarding  the real motivation of doing good and abstaining from evil, the  important thing to realize is that pleasing God (Paradise is only a  consequence of this) is the corollary of having faith in Him. So a true  believer resultantly is rewarded for this attitude. In other words, if a  person has true faith in God, he will definitely try to please Him and  when He pleases Him, he will be rewarded with Paradise. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Dr. Shehzad Saleem<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-18<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6584\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I  wanted to know why couldn\u2019t we build our moralities based on moral  values and not in the greed of gaining paradise or fear of Hell?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1173],"tags":[2444,1856,1608],"class_list":["post-6584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morals-and-morality","tag-deeds","tag-morality","tag-reward"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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