The Ruling on Renting Shops to Foreign Workers
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Question:
Another questioner says: What is the ruling on renting shops to foreign workers, knowing that this is contrary to the regulations? Is the rental income forbidden?
Answer:
Foreign workers do not rent shops, and they are not permitted to buy and sell, because their status is restricted to working. They came to work, so they work only for their sponsors for a salary. The one in authority prevents them from trading, opening shops, or renting. This is contrary to the system established by the one in authority for the benefit of the Muslims, so that these people do not compete with them for money and so that they do not neglect the work for which they came. There are harms in this, and it is not permissible to rent them a shop, and the lease is not permissible because it is disobedience to the one in authority. Yes.
Another questioner says: What is the ruling on renting shops to foreign workers, knowing that this is contrary to the regulations? Is the rental income forbidden?
Answer:
Foreign workers do not rent shops, and they are not permitted to buy and sell, because their status is restricted to working. They came to work, so they work only for their sponsors for a salary. The one in authority prevents them from trading, opening shops, or renting. This is contrary to the system established by the one in authority for the benefit of the Muslims, so that these people do not compete with them for money and so that they do not neglect the work for which they came. There are harms in this, and it is not permissible to rent them a shop, and the lease is not permissible because it is disobedience to the one in authority. Yes.
Source
75-لقاءات مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 11- — archive.org (1:01:08)
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