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Ruling on working as a mu'adhdhin and imam of a mosque in order to obtain a waqf residence?

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Question : The questioner says: I am a young man who wants to get married, but I do not have the rent for a house to live in, since I am a student. So I wanted to be, I wanted to be the imam of a mosque so that I could get the house that is given to the imam, as well as the Rafidah. Is there anything wrong with this, even though my goal is noble, since I want to get married?

Answer : If a person intends to seek money to help him in the obedience of Allah, then there is no blame on him for that, because money is a means to good, to evil, and to what is permissible. So if this man wanted this money to be a means that helps him in the obedience of Allah, I hope that there is no blame on him for that. But what he should do is make his intention sincere for Allah the Exalted, and go to the mosque to be an imam for the pious, an imam for the Muslims, praying with them, and striving to make his prayer like the prayer of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and to admonish them and guide them to good and call them to it, so that by doing so he attains good.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، لقاء[56 من 70] حكم العمل مؤذن وإمام مسجد من أجل سكن الوقف؟!! الشيخ ابن عثيمين - مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com

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