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This verse is a warning also for today's Muslims who pray only for their material desires even when doing Hajj or visiting the Holy Places. There are many rich people who pray themselves or request others to pray for them, not for Maghfirah (deliverance) on the Day of Aakhirah, but for increase in their wealth, growth of business, or other worldly affairs. There are many who start believing that they are very pious and religious because they do a lot of Zikr and pray a lot, but in reality their sole desire behind all these acts of worship is increase in their wealth. It is not that it is not allowed, or it is not a matter of receiving eternal reward, to pray for one's worldly affairs, but this verse is saying that increase in wealth should not be the sole purpose of going for Hajj and doing Ibadah, to the exclusion of any consideration of what will happen to that person in the Aakhirah.
From Ma'ariful Quran, by Mufti Muhammad Shafi RE
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This verse is a warning also for today's Muslims who pray only for their material desires even when doing Hajj or visiting the Holy Places. There are many rich people who pray themselves or request others to pray for them, not for Maghfirah (deliverance) on the Day of Aakhirah, but for increase in their wealth, growth of business, or other worldly affairs. There are many who start believing that they are very pious and religious because they do a lot of Zikr and pray a lot, but in reality their sole desire behind all these acts of worship is increase in their wealth. It is not that it is not allowed, or it is not a matter of receiving eternal reward, to pray for one's worldly affairs, but this verse is saying that increase in wealth should not be the sole purpose of going for Hajj and doing Ibadah, to the exclusion of any consideration of what will happen to that person in the Aakhirah.
From Ma'ariful Quran, by Mufti Muhammad Shafi RE
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