Is a percentage given, or a salary, given that the percentage may be very large?
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Al-Mashhoor: If the compensation were, for example, based on this person’s capacity and the profession he practices, perhaps meaning that the work is better, then in the apparent causes, he might take, for example, two hundred dinars or one hundred and fifty dinars. So this percentage might sometimes reach two thousand or three thousand dinars. Even with this, is it prescribed for him to take this large amount?
The Shaykh : ... .
Al-Mashhoor: If he had not worked in zakah, but had worked in the best profession in the apparent causes, he would not have gotten two hundred dinars! But he agreed with the brothers, saying, “I want to take a percentage of five percent, ten percent,” or they suggested it to him, so he went and brought a large amount...!
The Shaykh : No, this is not permissible.
Al-Mashhoor: So he took two thousand dinars, for example?
The Shaykh : It is not permissible. He must be given a fixed salary.
Al-Mashhoor: But not a percentage?
The Shaykh : No ... .
The Shaykh : ... .
Al-Mashhoor: If he had not worked in zakah, but had worked in the best profession in the apparent causes, he would not have gotten two hundred dinars! But he agreed with the brothers, saying, “I want to take a percentage of five percent, ten percent,” or they suggested it to him, so he went and brought a large amount...!
The Shaykh : No, this is not permissible.
Al-Mashhoor: So he took two thousand dinars, for example?
The Shaykh : It is not permissible. He must be given a fixed salary.
Al-Mashhoor: But not a percentage?
The Shaykh : No ... .