Re: A question for fellow guppies on Quran and sunnah
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Question 4.
If someone recites a Kalema and becomes a muslim for personal interests Is he also considered a believer and does the ayats you quoted above apply him also.
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The Prophet (saw) said: Actions are only by intention, and every man shall only have what he intended. Thus he whose emigration (hijrah) was for Allah and was for Allah and His Messenger, his emigration was for Allah and His Messenger, and he whose emigration was to achieve some worldly benefit or to take some woman in marriage, his emigration was for that for which he made emigration - Al-Bukhari and Muslim
I think the following 2 hadiths should answer your questions.
It is narrated on the authority of Miqdad b. Aswad that he said. Messenger of Allah, you just see (here is a point) : If I encountered a person amongst the infidels (in the battlefield) and he attacked me and struck me and cut off one of my hands with the sword. Then he (in order to protect himself from me) took shelter of a tree and said: I become Muslim for Allah's sake. Messenger of Allah, can I kill him after he had uttered this? The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Do not kill him. I (the narrator) said: Messenger of Allah , he cut off my hand and uttered this after amputating it; should I then kill him? The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Don't kill him , for I you kill him, verily he would be in a position where you had been before killing him and verily you would be in a position where he had been before uttering (kalima). Sahih Muslim: Chapter 42 Book 1, Number 0173
It is narrated on the authority of Usama b. Zaid that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) sent us in a raiding party. We raided Huraqat of Juhaina in the morning. I caught hold of a man and he said: There is no god but Allah, I attacked him with a spear. It once occurred to me and I talked about it to the Apostle (may peace be upon him). The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: Did he profess "There is no god but Allah," and even then you killed him? I said: Messenger of Allah, he made a profession of it out of the fear of the weapon. He (the Holy Prophet) observed: *Did you tear his heart in order to find out whether it had professed or not * ? And he went on repeating it to me till I wished I had embraced Islam that day. Sa'd said: By Allah, I would never kill any Muslim so long as a person with a heavy belly, i.e., Usama, would not kill. Upon this a person remarked: Did Allah not say this: And fight them until there is no more mischief and religion is wholly for Allah ? Sa'd said: We fought so that there should be no mischief, but you and your companions wish to fight so that there should be mischief. Sahih Muslim: Chapter 42 Book 1, Number 0176:
No human can know what the other conceals in his/her heart. If one claims to be a Muslim and acts and behaves like one then we take him/her to be a Muslim unless his/her beliefs/actions/sayings are contrary to Islam.