{"id":651,"date":"2013-11-05T18:34:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T22:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=651"},"modified":"2013-11-05T18:34:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T22:34:41","slug":"types-worshippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"THREE TYPES OF WORSHIPPERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRJrrVoflMekPYCdHXuBpdGJlYKXunPaX8ZWqykU5LfF3IgaMJD5A\" \/><br \/>\nThose that worship\u00a0Allah are of three types:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Some worship Allah to acquire some\u00a0rewards from Allah, like protection from illnesses, calamities\u00a0and afflictions, and to acquire a life of affluence and safety from\u00a0Allah. Such people are dogs, for they have made\u00a0the most insignificant of things, like this world, their aim of\u00a0worshipping Allah.<\/li>\n<li>Secondly, there are those who worship\u00a0Allah to acquire Paradise. Such people are merchants who want to give something to Allah in return for something else.<\/li>\n<li>Lastly, the true servants of Allah are those who\u00a0worship Allah solely for the sake of acquiring Him.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Not a single moment\u00a0passes when we are not thinking of our needs, so in what category are you?<br \/>\nNote:\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23px;\">Extracted from the book; Manifestations of The Prophet Muhammad&#8217;s Beauty by Shaykh Al-Hadith Maulana Yusuf Motala.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 23px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those that worship\u00a0Allah are of three types: Some worship Allah to acquire some\u00a0rewards from Allah, like protection from illnesses, calamities\u00a0and afflictions, and to acquire a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivators","wpcat-57-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}