Combining Social Security Benefits with a Job Salary
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The questioner:
We have a call from our brother Sa'id from Dammam. Yes. Peace be upon you, and Allah's mercy and blessings. And upon you peace. Peace be upon you. May Allah reward you with good, O Shaykh. Yes. Your question. Shaykh Salih. I am hearing your question. I have three questions, O Shaykh. Start with the first one. I have a divorced sister, O Shaykh, who is registered for social security. After about two years, she was hired as an employee, and now for about two years she has been receiving social security benefits and also receiving her salary from the school. I do not know what the Shaykh's opinion is on this matter? The second question. Is it permissible? Or how does one return, for example, if there is an amount that needs to be returned and so on? Okay, the second question, the second question. O Shaykh. In the Eastern Province, we are mixed with the Shi'ah and so on in the workplace, and this is the situation. So we, O long-lived one, sometimes break our fast with them, breaking our fast at the same table and so on. Is this permissible or not? And the third. The third question, O Shaykh. We are in the southern region, and in our celebrations, weddings, and festivals, there are popular parties with food and drumming and so on. They are closed off on one side, and on the other side there is a skin [drum]. So I do not know, among the committed brothers, and those who do not appear to have the signs of the Sunnah and so on, they participate in the parties. Shaykh Sa'id, may Allah bless you. And disagreement and so on. Thank you. The question is clear. He is asking about his divorced sister who was receiving an amount of money from social affairs, but then she was hired or became a teacher or employee, and she combines the two: the social security benefit and the salary. Is that permissible for her?
The Shaykh:
This is according to the system, my brother. If the system permits her to take from social security and take a job salary, then there is no harm. But if the system prohibits it, then it is not permissible for her to do so; she should limit herself to her job. And I think this is the reality: that an employee does not receive social security. Yes.
We have a call from our brother Sa'id from Dammam. Yes. Peace be upon you, and Allah's mercy and blessings. And upon you peace. Peace be upon you. May Allah reward you with good, O Shaykh. Yes. Your question. Shaykh Salih. I am hearing your question. I have three questions, O Shaykh. Start with the first one. I have a divorced sister, O Shaykh, who is registered for social security. After about two years, she was hired as an employee, and now for about two years she has been receiving social security benefits and also receiving her salary from the school. I do not know what the Shaykh's opinion is on this matter? The second question. Is it permissible? Or how does one return, for example, if there is an amount that needs to be returned and so on? Okay, the second question, the second question. O Shaykh. In the Eastern Province, we are mixed with the Shi'ah and so on in the workplace, and this is the situation. So we, O long-lived one, sometimes break our fast with them, breaking our fast at the same table and so on. Is this permissible or not? And the third. The third question, O Shaykh. We are in the southern region, and in our celebrations, weddings, and festivals, there are popular parties with food and drumming and so on. They are closed off on one side, and on the other side there is a skin [drum]. So I do not know, among the committed brothers, and those who do not appear to have the signs of the Sunnah and so on, they participate in the parties. Shaykh Sa'id, may Allah bless you. And disagreement and so on. Thank you. The question is clear. He is asking about his divorced sister who was receiving an amount of money from social affairs, but then she was hired or became a teacher or employee, and she combines the two: the social security benefit and the salary. Is that permissible for her?
The Shaykh:
This is according to the system, my brother. If the system permits her to take from social security and take a job salary, then there is no harm. But if the system prohibits it, then it is not permissible for her to do so; she should limit herself to her job. And I think this is the reality: that an employee does not receive social security. Yes.
Source
قناة «مؤسسة الدعوة الخيرية»، فتاوى على الهواء 28-10-1434هـ - الفوزان — youtube.com (25:26)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.