What is the ruling on continuing to work for an organization that prevents one from growing a beard and performing the prayer in the mosque?
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Question:
A questioner says: I converted to Islam four years ago, and I am contracted with the Civil Defense Authority for ten years, after which I will receive a grant. I have spent seven and a half years so far. This organization prevents me from growing a beard, and I am also unable to perform the prayer in the mosque. The question is: Is it permissible for me to continue in this job? There are two and a half years remaining.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. It is well known that there is no obedience to a created being in disobedience to the Creator.
So do not comply with their demand to shave the beard, because this is a sin, and they have no interest in it. The job has no interest in shaving the beard, except that they hate the Sunnah. So you do not comply with them in this. The work will be completed in full, if Allah wills, and the presence or absence of the beard has no bearing on this matter. If keeping the beard harmed the work,
we would say: seek another job. But keeping the beard and letting it grow, and following the Sunnah, helps you in your work and does not diminish the work in any way. This is merely the whim of some employees. You can contact someone higher up among the officials and inform him of this matter, and he will prevent this behavior. This is arrogance that has no bearing on the work and no interest in it. If he is insistent on this, you escalate the matter to the official above him, until he takes action against him.
As for the prayer, if the work requires your presence, and if going to pray with the congregation in the mosque affects the work, pray at the workplace. Pray at the workplace. This is a dispensation for you. Everyone who is hired for a job, and this job would be missed or disrupted if he went, this is an excuse for you to pray at the workplace. Praise be to Allah. Yes.
A questioner says: I converted to Islam four years ago, and I am contracted with the Civil Defense Authority for ten years, after which I will receive a grant. I have spent seven and a half years so far. This organization prevents me from growing a beard, and I am also unable to perform the prayer in the mosque. The question is: Is it permissible for me to continue in this job? There are two and a half years remaining.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. It is well known that there is no obedience to a created being in disobedience to the Creator.
So do not comply with their demand to shave the beard, because this is a sin, and they have no interest in it. The job has no interest in shaving the beard, except that they hate the Sunnah. So you do not comply with them in this. The work will be completed in full, if Allah wills, and the presence or absence of the beard has no bearing on this matter. If keeping the beard harmed the work,
we would say: seek another job. But keeping the beard and letting it grow, and following the Sunnah, helps you in your work and does not diminish the work in any way. This is merely the whim of some employees. You can contact someone higher up among the officials and inform him of this matter, and he will prevent this behavior. This is arrogance that has no bearing on the work and no interest in it. If he is insistent on this, you escalate the matter to the official above him, until he takes action against him.
As for the prayer, if the work requires your presence, and if going to pray with the congregation in the mosque affects the work, pray at the workplace. Pray at the workplace. This is a dispensation for you. Everyone who is hired for a job, and this job would be missed or disrupted if he went, this is an excuse for you to pray at the workplace. Praise be to Allah. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم الاستمرار في العمل بهيئة تمنع من توفير اللحية، وأداء الصلاة في المسجد؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com
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