The Scholars Taking a Salary from the Ruler and Its Effect on Fatwas

Question:
This questioner says: We love our scholars and we have no doubt about them, but there is a doubt in the minds of some people, and we would like you to respond to it. Some of them say that if a scholar takes a salary from the ruler, it may affect his fatwas. So how do we respond to them?

Answer:
O my brothers, scholars, judges, muftis, imams, and the men of Hisbah (public order), and everyone who works for the Muslims, has the right to take from the public treasury what suffices for his needs so that he can devote himself to that. This is what is called, what is called, a provision from the public treasury. The scholars used to take from the public treasury in the past, and the Companions used to distribute from the public treasury and from the spoils of war to the Muhajireen and the Ansar, and they would take it. This is because it helps them to carry out their duties. Otherwise, everyone would go off to work for their families and to earn a livelihood for their households, and they would leave the judiciary, and fatwas would be abandoned, and teaching would be abandoned, and affairs would be neglected.
So this is for the benefit of the Muslims, O my brothers. This is in the interests of the Muslims, so that these people can devote themselves to benefiting the Muslims. Yes.