What is the ruling on fulfilling the agreed-upon wage for a domestic worker?
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The questioner : Since their official contracts stipulate that it should be six hundred riyals per month, but he can only pay her one hundred riyals. The office that provides domestic workers from their country said to him regarding that amount, "Pay her four hundred riyals, and she will be satisfied with that." So I said, "Hurry up with that, for there is no ruling in that."
The Shaykh : As long as the contract and agreement between them is that the wage is six hundred riyals, then it is obligatory to fulfill the covenant, by the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-Ma'idah 5:1] and by His saying: [Al-Isra 17:34] So it is obligatory for the one who enters into a contract with a person to complete it, because he is accountable for it.
The Shaykh : As long as the contract and agreement between them is that the wage is six hundred riyals, then it is obligatory to fulfill the covenant, by the saying of Allah the Exalted:
O you who have believed, fulfill [all] contracts.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَوْفُوا بِالْعُقُودِAnd fulfill [every] commitment. Indeed, the commitment is ever [that about which one will be] questioned.
وَأَوْفُوا بِالْعَهْدِ إِنَّ الْعَهْدَ كَانَ مَسْئُولًا
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دروس وفتاوى المسجد الحرام لعام 1408هـ - 22 — binothaimeen.net (1:12:51)
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