What is the operative cause of the prohibition of employee associations?
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Question:
These are several questions, the substance of which is that they heard from you that you do not permit employee associations, so what is the cause of the impermissibility?
Answer:
The cause is that this is a loan that yields a benefit, because each of the employees did not lend to his colleagues except on the condition that they lend to him what he lent to them, for the sake of Allah the Exalted, as a good loan. He only lent to them because he wants them to lend to him. This is called mutual lending: a conditional loan within a loan, so it is two contracts in one contract, two sales in one sale. It is also a loan that yields a benefit. This is the cause.
These are several questions, the substance of which is that they heard from you that you do not permit employee associations, so what is the cause of the impermissibility?
Answer:
The cause is that this is a loan that yields a benefit, because each of the employees did not lend to his colleagues except on the condition that they lend to him what he lent to them, for the sake of Allah the Exalted, as a good loan. He only lent to them because he wants them to lend to him. This is called mutual lending: a conditional loan within a loan, so it is two contracts in one contract, two sales in one sale. It is also a loan that yields a benefit. This is the cause.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما علة تحريم جمعيات الموظفين؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
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