RULE: Allah will not accept any good deed or righteous deed until it's stipulated with two basic conditions which must be fulfilled:
1. Sincerity (Do for the sake of Allah alone)
2. According to the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ
- Do things for the sake of Allah 100%
For example, if you do something 99.9% for the sake of Allah and 0.1% to show off or to gain fame/wealth etc. ALLAH WILL NOT ACCEPT IT!
On the Day of Judgement Allah will tell those people who did something like that in their worship to go and seek their reward from the partner they called with Him. Because It's supposed to be for the sake of Allah
So for example, if you did it for the sake of fame, then go find your fame, Allah won't accept it.
This is sincerity.
- Accordingly
For example if I offer prayer all night long without wudu it won't be accepted, why? Because I have to follow the Prophet.
The Prophet ﷺ told us, don't offer complete prayer without wudu and so on.
Again...
Allah will not accept any good or righteous action until it's stipulated with two basic conditions which must be fulfilled:
1. Sincerity
2. In accordance with the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ
A verse in the Qur’an: So take what the Prophet told you, commanded you with and abstain from what he prohibited you with.
• {See Qur'an 59:7}
So you must follow the Prophet in everything you do, you follow the Prophet and the message of Allah, Qur'an and Sunnah, if you follow that then you will be successful if Allah wills.
- Shaykh Musa Jibril حفظه الله
