What is the ruling on making the washing of the dead and shrouding them a profession for which a person seeks a wage?
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The questioner : My Shaykh, I have a question.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Regarding the intention, if our Lord facilitates matters, we left the Zakah Committee based on the opinion that this would not happen; I wanted to work in a second job, my lord, we decided that it would be washing and shrouding the dead; meaning we are opening the Islamic Center for preparing the dead, washing the dead and shrouding the dead, and bringing a car from...
The student : A mortician.
The questioner : So I do not know how this project is.
The student : The Salafi Company...
The questioner : The Islamic Center for preparing the dead...
The student : The Company of the People of the Sunnah and the Community.
The questioner : So what is your opinion on the matter, my lord?
The Shaykh : Your answer is known, what is the intent of it, but the question is deficient, your question is known, what is the intent of it, but the question is deficient.
The questioner : Because some cars are without customs now...
The Shaykh : You will return and repeat your words.
The student : Return to the same topic.
The Shaykh : Halimah has returned to her old habit.
The student : Even if it flies [Everyone laughs!].
The Shaykh : My brother, define your words, do not leave it like this, do not leave it absolute, you can bring it like this, you can bring it like that, and so on.
The questioner : Opening an Islamic center for preparing the dead.
The Shaykh : And then, Abu Ahmad.
The student : Now...
The Shaykh : Do you mean in your question: Is it permissible for you to take a wage? You did not mention this in your question, you mention a project like this, a project like that, if I were to stop at your question I would say: This is a fine project, and it has a great reward, and so on, but you do not have the intention of the wage.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, I intend the wage.
The questioner : Worldly and religious.
The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you.
The questioner : Reward and wage.
The student : ... .
Another student: ... the cheeks, my Shaykh, on the side it leans toward the opinion of al-Baghawi.
Another student: Who is he?
Another student: Then...
The Shaykh : Hmm.
The questioner : Opening a center like this would be for a wage, meaning.
The student : Taking the wage, you say taking the wage for washing the dead.
The Shaykh : If it is a wage from the servant, then no, and if it is a wage from the Lord, then it is fine, meaning the original principle - may Allah bless you - Abu Islam, in all acts of worship, in all acts of worship, is that they be as He - Exalted is He - said in the Noble Qur'an:[Al-Bayyinah 98:5], so every act of worship in Islam is religion, every act of worship, so now I am asking you.
You have erred, O brother of Islam.
The student : But he said, make it bigger, make it bigger, O Shaykh, it goes according to the hadith:.
Another student: The leader of the people is the right-handed one.
The Shaykh : Here, a witness from among them has testified [Everyone laughs!].
So now I am asking you.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : But I hope your answer - no offense - is not like your question, but rather the answer is in the manner of "The best of speech is what is brief and sufficient."
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Okay?
The questioner : If Allah wills.
The Shaykh : Is washing the dead an act of worship or not an act of worship?
The questioner : Worship of Allah - Exalted is He - and a great reward mentioned in the Sunnah.
The Shaykh : You contradicted the text, you contradicted the text.
The student : Be patient, be concise, be concise, meaning.
The Shaykh : The best of speech is what is brief and sufficient.
The student : Yes, it is an act of worship.
The Shaykh : An act of worship or not an act of worship?
The student : It is an act of worship.
The Shaykh : Here, this is the answer; an act of worship.
The questioner : An act of worship according to the hadith:.
The Shaykh : Here, Halimah has returned to her old habit!
The student : You are accustomed, my Shaykh, you want to excuse him.
The Shaykh : There is no benefit, for every person.
The questioner : I read your book, my lord, "The Book of Funerals."
The Shaykh : It is difficult again.
The student : ... .
Another student: You need to be patient with him, my Shaykh.
Another student: ... please, I have this for dinner or for tomorrow.
The Shaykh : If Allah wills, after you change your office.
The student : If Allah wills.
The Shaykh : If Allah wills, soon.
So if washing the dead is an act of worship.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is it permissible to take a wage for an act of worship? A concise word here, a brief answer; permissible or not permissible.
The questioner : It is not permissible.
The Shaykh : Yes, that is how I want you to think and answer, the best of speech.
The student : ... .
The Shaykh : Here, I see you will not go with me, you will not go with me, I see you.
The questioner : I want to complete the act of worship for you.
The Shaykh : You want to complete it for me again!!
The student : ... .
Another student: My lord.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : If - for example - you want to bring the shroud, it costs fifteen dinars or ten dinars.
The student : ... .
Another student: The Shaykh is precise... May Allah preserve him.
Another student: Be patient...
The questioner : Yes, it is an act of worship, yes.
The Shaykh : It is an act of worship.
The student : It is permissible to take a wage for an act of worship.
The Shaykh : It is permissible to seek, not to take, here, give me your attention, there is a difference.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Because your topic now is not taking.
The questioner : Seeking.
The Shaykh : Seeking, there is a difference, is it permissible to seek the worldly wage in exchange for the hereafter wage?
The questioner : Of course not.
The Shaykh : And what is your place in grammar? You seek the worldly wage in exchange for the hereafter wage, so as they say in our region in Syria: "They called her unemployment, they called her unemployment."
The questioner : This is not on an abaya!! It needs an explanation of the proverb.
The Shaykh : Abu Islam, stay with me.
The questioner : I agree with you.
The Shaykh : Welcome.
Another questioner : When I said: Abu Islam; it reminded me of me.
The Shaykh : I said just now: Every act of worship in Islam, it is not permissible for the Muslim.
The questioner : To take a wage.
The Shaykh : You are still saying: He takes! He seeks.
The questioner : He seeks.
The Shaykh : Ah, give me your attention, there is a difference because, but be patient with me.
The questioner : Yes, in the name of Allah, here.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Regarding the intention, if our Lord facilitates matters, we left the Zakah Committee based on the opinion that this would not happen; I wanted to work in a second job, my lord, we decided that it would be washing and shrouding the dead; meaning we are opening the Islamic Center for preparing the dead, washing the dead and shrouding the dead, and bringing a car from...
The student : A mortician.
The questioner : So I do not know how this project is.
The student : The Salafi Company...
The questioner : The Islamic Center for preparing the dead...
The student : The Company of the People of the Sunnah and the Community.
The questioner : So what is your opinion on the matter, my lord?
The Shaykh : Your answer is known, what is the intent of it, but the question is deficient, your question is known, what is the intent of it, but the question is deficient.
The questioner : Because some cars are without customs now...
The Shaykh : You will return and repeat your words.
The student : Return to the same topic.
The Shaykh : Halimah has returned to her old habit.
The student : Even if it flies [Everyone laughs!].
The Shaykh : My brother, define your words, do not leave it like this, do not leave it absolute, you can bring it like this, you can bring it like that, and so on.
The questioner : Opening an Islamic center for preparing the dead.
The Shaykh : And then, Abu Ahmad.
The student : Now...
The Shaykh : Do you mean in your question: Is it permissible for you to take a wage? You did not mention this in your question, you mention a project like this, a project like that, if I were to stop at your question I would say: This is a fine project, and it has a great reward, and so on, but you do not have the intention of the wage.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, I intend the wage.
The questioner : Worldly and religious.
The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you.
The questioner : Reward and wage.
The student : ... .
Another student: ... the cheeks, my Shaykh, on the side it leans toward the opinion of al-Baghawi.
Another student: Who is he?
Another student: Then...
The Shaykh : Hmm.
The questioner : Opening a center like this would be for a wage, meaning.
The student : Taking the wage, you say taking the wage for washing the dead.
The Shaykh : If it is a wage from the servant, then no, and if it is a wage from the Lord, then it is fine, meaning the original principle - may Allah bless you - Abu Islam, in all acts of worship, in all acts of worship, is that they be as He - Exalted is He - said in the Noble Qur'an:
And they were not commanded except to worship Allah, [being] sincere to Him in religion
وَمَا أُمِرُوا إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ مُخْلِصِينَ لَهُ الدِّينَYou have erred, O brother of Islam.
The student : But he said, make it bigger, make it bigger, O Shaykh, it goes according to the hadith:
Make it bigger, make it bigger
كبِّر كبِّرAnother student: The leader of the people is the right-handed one.
The Shaykh : Here, a witness from among them has testified [Everyone laughs!].
So now I am asking you.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : But I hope your answer - no offense - is not like your question, but rather the answer is in the manner of "The best of speech is what is brief and sufficient."
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Okay?
The questioner : If Allah wills.
The Shaykh : Is washing the dead an act of worship or not an act of worship?
The questioner : Worship of Allah - Exalted is He - and a great reward mentioned in the Sunnah.
The Shaykh : You contradicted the text, you contradicted the text.
The student : Be patient, be concise, be concise, meaning.
The Shaykh : The best of speech is what is brief and sufficient.
The student : Yes, it is an act of worship.
The Shaykh : An act of worship or not an act of worship?
The student : It is an act of worship.
The Shaykh : Here, this is the answer; an act of worship.
The questioner : An act of worship according to the hadith:
Whoever washes a dead person
مَن غسَّل ميتًاThe Shaykh : Here, Halimah has returned to her old habit!
The student : You are accustomed, my Shaykh, you want to excuse him.
The Shaykh : There is no benefit, for every person.
The questioner : I read your book, my lord, "The Book of Funerals."
The Shaykh : It is difficult again.
The student : ... .
Another student: You need to be patient with him, my Shaykh.
Another student: ... please, I have this for dinner or for tomorrow.
The Shaykh : If Allah wills, after you change your office.
The student : If Allah wills.
The Shaykh : If Allah wills, soon.
So if washing the dead is an act of worship.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is it permissible to take a wage for an act of worship? A concise word here, a brief answer; permissible or not permissible.
The questioner : It is not permissible.
The Shaykh : Yes, that is how I want you to think and answer, the best of speech.
The student : ... .
The Shaykh : Here, I see you will not go with me, you will not go with me, I see you.
The questioner : I want to complete the act of worship for you.
The Shaykh : You want to complete it for me again!!
The student : ... .
Another student: My lord.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : If - for example - you want to bring the shroud, it costs fifteen dinars or ten dinars.
The student : ... .
Another student: The Shaykh is precise... May Allah preserve him.
Another student: Be patient...
The questioner : Yes, it is an act of worship, yes.
The Shaykh : It is an act of worship.
The student : It is permissible to take a wage for an act of worship.
The Shaykh : It is permissible to seek, not to take, here, give me your attention, there is a difference.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Because your topic now is not taking.
The questioner : Seeking.
The Shaykh : Seeking, there is a difference, is it permissible to seek the worldly wage in exchange for the hereafter wage?
The questioner : Of course not.
The Shaykh : And what is your place in grammar? You seek the worldly wage in exchange for the hereafter wage, so as they say in our region in Syria: "They called her unemployment, they called her unemployment."
The questioner : This is not on an abaya!! It needs an explanation of the proverb.
The Shaykh : Abu Islam, stay with me.
The questioner : I agree with you.
The Shaykh : Welcome.
Another questioner : When I said: Abu Islam; it reminded me of me.
The Shaykh : I said just now: Every act of worship in Islam, it is not permissible for the Muslim.
The questioner : To take a wage.
The Shaykh : You are still saying: He takes! He seeks.
The questioner : He seeks.
The Shaykh : Ah, give me your attention, there is a difference because, but be patient with me.
The questioner : Yes, in the name of Allah, here.
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