The wage for the call to prayer in one mosque versus another
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: If there is a mosque that offers a wage for the call to prayer, and another that does not, is it considered a condition if I go to the mosque that offers the wage?
The Shaykh:
What is called a wage is not permissible. It is called assistance. Assistance from the public treasury, or from one of the benefactors, or from the charitable endowments. There is no harm in calling it assistance. That is, it is not called a wage. You take a mu'adhdhin who does not take a wage for his call to prayer. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
He calls to prayer except for a wage. This is not acceptable. The one who says, "I call to prayer to draw near to Allah the Exalted and to seek reward," and if he is given something without a condition, he takes it. There is no harm. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: If there is a mosque that offers a wage for the call to prayer, and another that does not, is it considered a condition if I go to the mosque that offers the wage?
The Shaykh:
What is called a wage is not permissible. It is called assistance. Assistance from the public treasury, or from one of the benefactors, or from the charitable endowments. There is no harm in calling it assistance. That is, it is not called a wage. You take a mu'adhdhin who does not take a wage for his call to prayer. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
He calls to prayer except for a wage. This is not acceptable. The one who says, "I call to prayer to draw near to Allah the Exalted and to seek reward," and if he is given something without a condition, he takes it. There is no harm. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب من أذن فهو يقيم — islamhouse.com (45:21)
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