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On the pulpit ‘Umar bin Al-khattab رضي الله عنه said: I heard Allah’s Apostle صلى الله عليه وسلم saying, “The reward of deeds depends upon the intentions and every person will get the reward according to what he has intended. So whoever emigrated for worldly benefits or for a woman to marry, his emigration was for what he emigrated for.”¹

1. The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said this on this occasion of someone’s emigration from Mecca to Medina not for the sake of the Islamic Cause but to marry a woman who had stipulated that he should emigrate if he wanted to marry her. Anyhow, this Hadith implies a general principle, i.e. One is rewarded for his deeds according to his real intentions not according to his actual deeds which might be good in themselves but motivated by an ill intention.