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commendable such as visiting scholars and observing them.
From all these the intention of travel is clear, as the meaning of the intention is
the incentive, which causes you to travel and the setting out to answer the
invitation.
Let him have the Hereafter as his intention in all his travels, and that is evident in
the obligatory and the commendable, but it is impossible in the disliked and
forbidden.
As for the permissible, it depends upon the intention. As long as his intention in
seeking wealth is to suffice himself from asking, and to keep the dignity of his
family and to spend in charity according to what can be afforded, this permissible
will become, with this intention of the Hereafter, work. But if he traveled to make
pilgrimage but his incentive was for show, that would be out of being acts of the
Hereafter, this is because of what the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him,
said: “Surely the deed is according to the intention.”
Part Two
From all these the intention of travel is clear, as the meaning of the intention is
the incentive, which causes you to travel and the setting out to answer the
invitation.
Let him have the Hereafter as his intention in all his travels, and that is evident in
the obligatory and the commendable, but it is impossible in the disliked and
forbidden.
As for the permissible, it depends upon the intention. As long as his intention in
seeking wealth is to suffice himself from asking, and to keep the dignity of his
family and to spend in charity according to what can be afforded, this permissible
will become, with this intention of the Hereafter, work. But if he traveled to make
pilgrimage but his incentive was for show, that would be out of being acts of the
Hereafter, this is because of what the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him,
said: “Surely the deed is according to the intention.”
Part Two