Wisdom and deliberation in issuing fatwas
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Your Eminence! There is a group of employees whose specializations are technical. The interest of the work required assigning them to administrative duties in a location other than their original one. The working hours there are fewer than what is required of them if they were in their previous job. This is known at the ministry level. On Thursdays, two groups take turns with the approval of their direct manager, and this is justified by the scarcity of work on that day. Is this situation permissible? It is known that this administrative job has allowances that they do not receive due to the difference in job title?
This is an important question, but the one who directs the question is the one responsible for the public interest; because I see that it is not in the public interest for an employee to come under a manager or head and ask about a job that the manager or head is doing, which may be contrary to the system and contrary to trust. Such a thing should not be answered; because he has no power to do anything. Even if you answered him, can he change the situation as long as the manager is insistent on what he wants? He cannot change the situation. Rather, it may increase the severity of the matter. Perhaps this answer, from the one to whom the question was directed, will be taken by the questioner as a weapon against this manager to tarnish his reputation and cause confusion. And I am not intending a specific person. The questioner is appreciated for his question; but I mean in general, that it is not befitting for the mufti to issue a fatwa in such matters; because they do not serve the public interest at all. Who takes on the question if he wants to ask? The head or the manager who can change it. As for an individual from this group asking,If it is said: this is forbidden, and it is not permissible. This is betrayal, and the salary is forbidden, and so on. What is the benefit? There is no benefit in reality.
And for this reason, I thank my young brothers who find a contradiction in their jobs and then ask about it. We thank them; but I do not see that they should be answered; because that does not serve the public interest.
Then I also advise those in charge of the work to fear Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and to proceed according to what has been prescribed for them from above. And if they see the public interest in the opposite, let them submit a report and advice to those above them to adjust the situation;Unless they are enabled to do so and it is said: You are trusted, and you are free regarding what you see of directing and changing the specializations of employees. This is another matter.
Then, such questions also, I love for my young brothers who are concerned that the question be kept secret between them and the responsible officials; because we do not like for faults to spread in work departments and institutions.
The questioner: Very well! O Shaykh, could it lead to evil?The Shaykh: If I told you with the answer to this question, this is the answer and it is not possible.
This is an important question, but the one who directs the question is the one responsible for the public interest; because I see that it is not in the public interest for an employee to come under a manager or head and ask about a job that the manager or head is doing, which may be contrary to the system and contrary to trust. Such a thing should not be answered; because he has no power to do anything. Even if you answered him, can he change the situation as long as the manager is insistent on what he wants? He cannot change the situation. Rather, it may increase the severity of the matter. Perhaps this answer, from the one to whom the question was directed, will be taken by the questioner as a weapon against this manager to tarnish his reputation and cause confusion. And I am not intending a specific person. The questioner is appreciated for his question; but I mean in general, that it is not befitting for the mufti to issue a fatwa in such matters; because they do not serve the public interest at all. Who takes on the question if he wants to ask? The head or the manager who can change it. As for an individual from this group asking,If it is said: this is forbidden, and it is not permissible. This is betrayal, and the salary is forbidden, and so on. What is the benefit? There is no benefit in reality.
And for this reason, I thank my young brothers who find a contradiction in their jobs and then ask about it. We thank them; but I do not see that they should be answered; because that does not serve the public interest.
Then I also advise those in charge of the work to fear Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and to proceed according to what has been prescribed for them from above. And if they see the public interest in the opposite, let them submit a report and advice to those above them to adjust the situation;Unless they are enabled to do so and it is said: You are trusted, and you are free regarding what you see of directing and changing the specializations of employees. This is another matter.
Then, such questions also, I love for my young brothers who are concerned that the question be kept secret between them and the responsible officials; because we do not like for faults to spread in work departments and institutions.
The questioner: Very well! O Shaykh, could it lead to evil?The Shaykh: If I told you with the answer to this question, this is the answer and it is not possible.