Ruling on giving prizes to students who fast voluntarily
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Ruling on giving prizes to students who fast voluntarily
Your Eminence! Some teachers give incentive prizes to students if they fast, for example, on Ashura or Arafah, by giving them a prize. Some other teachers criticized this. What is your opinion on this matter?
My opinion is that the criticism is correct, and we should not accustom people to worldly prizes in exchange for religious deeds; because a person begins to look at these prizes. Yes, they should encourage them and motivate them to fast on Mondays and Thursdays, and on three days of every month, and let those be the white days. But giving them prizes, no. However, if they do it and he wants to give someone a prize, I hope there is no harm in that.
Your Eminence! Some teachers give incentive prizes to students if they fast, for example, on Ashura or Arafah, by giving them a prize. Some other teachers criticized this. What is your opinion on this matter?
My opinion is that the criticism is correct, and we should not accustom people to worldly prizes in exchange for religious deeds; because a person begins to look at these prizes. Yes, they should encourage them and motivate them to fast on Mondays and Thursdays, and on three days of every month, and let those be the white days. But giving them prizes, no. However, if they do it and he wants to give someone a prize, I hope there is no harm in that.