The Ruling on Secondment in Government Positions
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Your Eminence! Regarding military secondments, for example, in Riyadh, one is sent to the Western Region, but does not go. One receives a payment for the secondment based on the fact that one was seconded, even though one did not request the secondment; rather, they are the ones who place you wherever they wish!
By Allah! I see that first: It is not permissible for officials to assign a secondment salary or a secondment bonus without the man going to where he was directed; because this is, in reality, a betrayal of the one in authority.
Second: If it happens that they gave it to him without his request, and he knows that he did not go,In that case, if he is able to return it and say: I do not accept it. If there is no harm to him, let him do so. If he cannot do so except with harm, meaning that the officials who gave him this bonus without a secondment would harm him if he returned it; then he takes it and gives it in charity to get rid of it.
By Allah! I see that first: It is not permissible for officials to assign a secondment salary or a secondment bonus without the man going to where he was directed; because this is, in reality, a betrayal of the one in authority.
Second: If it happens that they gave it to him without his request, and he knows that he did not go,In that case, if he is able to return it and say: I do not accept it. If there is no harm to him, let him do so. If he cannot do so except with harm, meaning that the officials who gave him this bonus without a secondment would harm him if he returned it; then he takes it and gives it in charity to get rid of it.