What is the ruling on exploiting people in work?
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The questioner: In these days of ours, things are built on the basis that I exploit and I profit. The most work this person can do, and I pay the least income.
The Shaykh: Yes, indeed, it is taking what is not lawful.
The questioner: It leaves the companies standing.
The Shaykh: It is the beginning of treachery.
The questioner: That he eats.
The Shaykh: The strong [exploit] the weak.
The questioner: Why don't you, for example, hire me as a worker and see what energy I put in, and I give it to you in my work, and you reward me based on it? If that is the right in matters, then, by Allah, it is just guessing and assumption, as you mentioned, Honorable Shaykh. The one who calculates has the freedom to calculate it himself, so he errs in his calculation. But if the work is unknown, Allah knows best. The poor man starts working in the air, or he finds it is rock. He has to lose his company and it closes. The one who took it. You were saying you heard me say that it is rare for there to be a dispute. Many contracting companies in the country close, you know that, they lose. Why is this the cause? In their calculations, they face work at high prices, or in matters. A supervisor is unemployed, it becomes work. Who faces him with a problem. It did not happen, it did not happen, there was no dispute. I mean. I mean, you find they come down with imaginary prices because they have no work, they want to share their situation, they come down with very cheap prices, they do not succeed with them, they drop once. This is not, this is not the secret. And if you sell to them, also. Why is this the cause? After these three works that I gave them, after I opened the office, I mean, this operation of the items that gives the whole building with a standing pen is not fair. It is supposed to give based on the actual quantities executed, item by item. Yes, yes, for example, you write for Plato thirty dinars, you take the armed one, you give him thirty dinars. You secure yourself, you secure. This is the correct speech. I am a contractor, by favor, very high. The hadith in which I said, "Be a wronged servant of Allah, and do not be an oppressive servant of Allah."
The Shaykh: Be a wronged servant of Allah, and do not be an oppressive servant of Allah.
The questioner: This is a long hadith.
The Shaykh: This is in the time of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). That a person does not enter into fitnah in the name of defending himself, he stays away from evil until hadiths came and... and he showed you the gleam of his sword, so be a wronged servant of Allah, and do not be an oppressive servant of Allah. I mean, a person today when he wants to deal with people, he does not want to deal on the basis that he is the one who prevails by violence, I mean by force.
The Shaykh: Yes, indeed, it is taking what is not lawful.
The questioner: It leaves the companies standing.
The Shaykh: It is the beginning of treachery.
The questioner: That he eats.
The Shaykh: The strong [exploit] the weak.
The questioner: Why don't you, for example, hire me as a worker and see what energy I put in, and I give it to you in my work, and you reward me based on it? If that is the right in matters, then, by Allah, it is just guessing and assumption, as you mentioned, Honorable Shaykh. The one who calculates has the freedom to calculate it himself, so he errs in his calculation. But if the work is unknown, Allah knows best. The poor man starts working in the air, or he finds it is rock. He has to lose his company and it closes. The one who took it. You were saying you heard me say that it is rare for there to be a dispute. Many contracting companies in the country close, you know that, they lose. Why is this the cause? In their calculations, they face work at high prices, or in matters. A supervisor is unemployed, it becomes work. Who faces him with a problem. It did not happen, it did not happen, there was no dispute. I mean. I mean, you find they come down with imaginary prices because they have no work, they want to share their situation, they come down with very cheap prices, they do not succeed with them, they drop once. This is not, this is not the secret. And if you sell to them, also. Why is this the cause? After these three works that I gave them, after I opened the office, I mean, this operation of the items that gives the whole building with a standing pen is not fair. It is supposed to give based on the actual quantities executed, item by item. Yes, yes, for example, you write for Plato thirty dinars, you take the armed one, you give him thirty dinars. You secure yourself, you secure. This is the correct speech. I am a contractor, by favor, very high. The hadith in which I said, "Be a wronged servant of Allah, and do not be an oppressive servant of Allah."
The Shaykh: Be a wronged servant of Allah, and do not be an oppressive servant of Allah.
The questioner: This is a long hadith.
The Shaykh: This is in the time of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation). That a person does not enter into fitnah in the name of defending himself, he stays away from evil until hadiths came and... and he showed you the gleam of his sword, so be a wronged servant of Allah, and do not be an oppressive servant of Allah. I mean, a person today when he wants to deal with people, he does not want to deal on the basis that he is the one who prevails by violence, I mean by force.
Source
سلسلة الهدى والنور، المجلس 1227 — d3watuna.com (21:23)
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