Ruling on working under another person's name
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Your Eminence! One of our benefactors built a mosque and provided an imam at his own expense. However, this imam was unable to become an official imam. He is a memorizer of the Qur'an and works at the charitable association. But there is another solution: to use the name of a Saudi person and reach an agreement with that Saudi person. Is this action valid? May Allah reward you with good.The Shaykh: I am asking you: is this a lie or the truth?The questioner: This is a lie on the surface.
This is an obvious lie in any case. If the responsible authorities told you to do that, they have wronged themselves, wronged you, and betrayed the state. The duty of the responsible party is to proceed according to what has been prescribed for him within the limits of what Allah has legislated, even if he does not like it. There is no objection to him expressing his opinion to the responsible authorities if he has one. However, for him to deceive and write in the records that the job is under a Saudi name, while the truth is that he is not Saudi, involves betrayal of the state, lying, and consuming wealth by false pretense. It is absolutely not permissible for a person to conceal himself and write the job under someone else's name in order to take it for himself.
This is an obvious lie in any case. If the responsible authorities told you to do that, they have wronged themselves, wronged you, and betrayed the state. The duty of the responsible party is to proceed according to what has been prescribed for him within the limits of what Allah has legislated, even if he does not like it. There is no objection to him expressing his opinion to the responsible authorities if he has one. However, for him to deceive and write in the records that the job is under a Saudi name, while the truth is that he is not Saudi, involves betrayal of the state, lying, and consuming wealth by false pretense. It is absolutely not permissible for a person to conceal himself and write the job under someone else's name in order to take it for himself.