Advice of Scholars - ALL ACTIONS SHOULD BE FOR ALLAH’S SAKE

Hadrat Imâm-i Rabbânî says in the 17th letter of the third volume of his Maktûbât:

We should eat food not for pleasure or flavour, but for getting strong enough to do Allah’s commands. If in the beginning you cannot intend so, force yourself to intend so at each meal. Entreat Allahu ta’âlâ so that you can develop a real intention! We should wear new and clean clothes, and, when dressing, we should intend to adorn ourselves for worship, for namâz. Allahu ta’âlâ declares in the Qur’ân: “When performing each namâz, wear your adorned, clean, and favorite clothes!” We should not wear our clothes for ostentation in front of others; this is a sin. [Ibni Âbidin, while explaining the makrûhs in fasting, says that it is mubâh to dress smartly. ] All actions, work, words, reading and listening, [sending one’s son to school] should always be for Allah’s sake. One should try so that these will be compatible with His Sharî’at. Then each of one’s limbs and one’s heart will turn towards Allahu ta’âlâ. One’s heart will mention Him [that is, it will remember Him]. For example, sleep, which is altogether a state of unawareness, will thoroughly be an act of worship when done with the intention of doing religious service with strength and soundness. For one has slept with the intention of woshipping.