Is expelling non-Muslim servants from the homes of Muslims considered enjoining good and forbidding evil and supporting our Muslim brothers in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
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The questioner : He says: O esteemed Shaykh, what has happened to the Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina is indescribable. Why should we not enjoin good and forbid evil by expelling the male and female non-Muslim servants in our homes when their contracts end, and we have fulfilled what is due between us and them? Why should we not do this so that the people of disbelief hear of us and know that the people of Islam are one community?
The Shaykh : We say: This is good, so do it if you wish. That is, we agree that when the contracts of non-Muslim servants end, their contracts should be terminated. However, some of our people—may Allah guide us and them—do not agree with this. In fact, some of them—may Allah keep us safe—openly state that the service of a non-Muslim is stronger than the service of a Muslim, meaning that a non-Muslim performs more work, as if he had not heard the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-Baqarah 2:221] and His saying: [Al-Baqarah 2:221].
The Shaykh : We say: This is good, so do it if you wish. That is, we agree that when the contracts of non-Muslim servants end, their contracts should be terminated. However, some of our people—may Allah guide us and them—do not agree with this. In fact, some of them—may Allah keep us safe—openly state that the service of a non-Muslim is stronger than the service of a Muslim, meaning that a non-Muslim performs more work, as if he had not heard the saying of Allah the Exalted: