Ruling on relinquishing a job to someone not entitled to it in exchange for payment
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Your Eminence! There is a regulation in the National Guard established by the state, may Allah preserve it, which states that the position belongs to the man. After he retires or dies, the regulation permits him to designate one of his sons or relatives to take his place. However, if this man has no one, he may be offered a sum of money to relinquish this position. What is your opinion on this matter?
Do you mean relinquishing it before he dies?The questioner: For example, he retires, and he has no one, no sons or otherwise.A person comes and says to him: I will give you this much, but make the position mine?The Shaykh: It is not permissible.
The questioner: And what is the advice?The Shaykh: The advice is that a person should fear his Lord, and know that if he consumes what is forbidden, it will affect his worship, his supplication, and so on.Because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned: (The man who travels a long distance, disheveled and dusty, stretches his hands to the sky: O my Lord! O my Lord! Yet his food is forbidden, his drink is forbidden, and he is nourished with what is forbidden. How then will he be answered?) And this world, my brother, is not a place of permanence and it is not Paradise. The world is a passage and a test in righteous deeds. Therefore, a person must not make money the capital. The true capital is the deed, whereas money is transient, or its owner is transient, inevitably.
The questioner: Under the same regulation, what is the ruling on relinquishing it to someone other than those specified by the regulation?The Shaykh: Does the same regulation permit this?The questioner: It says: his son or one of his relatives. This is the customary practice.
The Shaykh: Leave the customary practice aside. Does the regulation permit a person to relinquish his retirement, for example, to any person?
Do you mean relinquishing it before he dies?The questioner: For example, he retires, and he has no one, no sons or otherwise.A person comes and says to him: I will give you this much, but make the position mine?The Shaykh: It is not permissible.
The questioner: And what is the advice?The Shaykh: The advice is that a person should fear his Lord, and know that if he consumes what is forbidden, it will affect his worship, his supplication, and so on.Because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned: (The man who travels a long distance, disheveled and dusty, stretches his hands to the sky: O my Lord! O my Lord! Yet his food is forbidden, his drink is forbidden, and he is nourished with what is forbidden. How then will he be answered?) And this world, my brother, is not a place of permanence and it is not Paradise. The world is a passage and a test in righteous deeds. Therefore, a person must not make money the capital. The true capital is the deed, whereas money is transient, or its owner is transient, inevitably.
The questioner: Under the same regulation, what is the ruling on relinquishing it to someone other than those specified by the regulation?The Shaykh: Does the same regulation permit this?The questioner: It says: his son or one of his relatives. This is the customary practice.
The Shaykh: Leave the customary practice aside. Does the regulation permit a person to relinquish his retirement, for example, to any person?