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you. Your intention in sleeping could be to gain assistance in fulfilling your duties to Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ. In marriage your intention could be to safeguard your chastity and save yourself from sin.
For guidance regarding good intentions please listen to Amīr-e-Aĥl-e-Sunnat’s Sunnaĥ-inspiring cassette speech ‘The fruits of intention’ and obtain his intention-card or pamphlet from any branch of Maktaba-tul-Madīnaĥ.
1. Saying of the Beloved Mustafa صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم, ‘A Muslim’s intention is better than his action.’
(Al-Mu’jam-ul-Kabīr liṭ-Ṭabarānī, vol. 6, pp. 185, Ḥadīš 5942)
2. The Beloved Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said, ‘A true intention is the best deed.’ (Jāmi’-ul-Aḥādīš, vol. 2, pp. 19, Ḥadīš 3554)
3. The Holy Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said, ‘A good intention leads a man to paradise.’
(Kanz-ul-‘Ummāl, Kitāb-ul-Akhlāq, vol. 3, pp. 169, Ḥadīš 7245)
4. The Holiest Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said, ‘Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ grants worldly blessings in exchange for the intention of the afterlife but He عَزَّوَجَلَّ refuses to grant blessings of the afterlife in exchange for a worldly intention.’
(Kanz-ul-‘Ummāl, Kitāb-ul-Akhlāq, vol. 3, pp. 75, Ḥadīš 6053)
5. The Noblest Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said, ‘A good intention clings to the throne of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ, whenever a man proves his intention right (by acting upon it) the throne begins to move and then he is forgiven.’ (Tārīkh-e-Baghdad, vol. 12, pp. 444, Ḥadīš 6926)
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