The ruling on receiving the imam's salary without performing the duties
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh! May Allah bless you in your knowledge and benefit people through you. I lead the prayer in a mosque, but I do not pray the obligatory prayers there except on Friday. I give a person a sum of money, approximately one thousand riyals. What is the ruling on this? And is the salary I receive lawful? Please give us a ruling, may Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
This is not permissible for you. Either you commit to leading the prayer, or you leave it to someone else. As for you being employed as an imam, not performing the work, and taking the salary, this is not permissible for you. Either you perform the imamate and be patient with it, or you leave it to someone else. Do not hold onto it and bear the responsibility while you are not performing the work. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh! May Allah bless you in your knowledge and benefit people through you. I lead the prayer in a mosque, but I do not pray the obligatory prayers there except on Friday. I give a person a sum of money, approximately one thousand riyals. What is the ruling on this? And is the salary I receive lawful? Please give us a ruling, may Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
This is not permissible for you. Either you commit to leading the prayer, or you leave it to someone else. As for you being employed as an imam, not performing the work, and taking the salary, this is not permissible for you. Either you perform the imamate and be patient with it, or you leave it to someone else. Do not hold onto it and bear the responsibility while you are not performing the work. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم إمام المسجد الذي لا يصلي في مسجده؟ وهل راتبه حلال؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com
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