Text copied Link copied

Al-Fatawa – home

﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

Scholar
Search mode

What is the ruling on working in the embassy of a Muslim state in the lands of disbelief?

Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Is the one who needs to work in the embassy of a Muslim state in the lands of disbelief a sinner and one who emigrates to them?

Answer:
This is permissible interaction. That is, there is interaction between the Muslims and the disbelieving state, and there is what is called diplomacy between them: opening an embassy there and opening their embassy here. It is a treaty state, not a warring state; it is a treaty state. There is nothing wrong with this, and working in it is permissible, but on the condition that one stays away from places of corruption. They say that the embassy is the territory of the country it belongs to. So the Saudi embassy is Saudi territory, even if it is in America; it is Saudi territory. The embassy is the territory of its people, of the state, of the state that granted it. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم العمل في سفارة الدولة المسلمة في بلاد الكفر؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

Flag this fatwa