What is the ruling on employees taking and receiving their salaries from banks?

The Shaykh : All right, Abu Anas, what do you have?

The questioner : All right, the employee who is compelled, meaning the government, for example, transfers his salary to the bank; he cannot take it from the, meaning the government or the department, but rather they transfer it to the Housing Bank or the Arab Bank, and sometimes due to circumstances, it is delayed and he does not get the opportunity, so he remains, for example, for days and weeks.

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner : So what is its ruling, our Shaykh?

The Shaykh : This is one of the models and examples I referred to when I gave an answer to the brother's statement here But regarding your final statement that the receipt of this salary may be delayed for a period, I see that for every employee afflicted with this affliction, that he should transfer his salary to the bank, that he should make it his constant habit, always and forever, that when he knows the salary has reached the bank on that day, he does not leave it for an hour of the day.
Abu Malik: Yes, exactly.

The Shaykh : If he is able to, because Allah Mighty and Majestic does not burden a soul except with what it can bear. First, it is to clarify the difference; he is not like the one who deposits his money in the bank with his own hand, but rather this is imposed on him by force, like these taxes from which no one is safe; they are levies and forbidden, etc., but they are imposed on us by force, so we are not responsible. And like the bribe that the briber pays to reach his suppressed right; this is not a forbidden bribe, as you know. So I say that this employee, first, is not responsible because the state ordered him to take the salary from the bank, but he must strive, as I said earlier, not to leave this money for less time than possible; he must strive not to leave it, no matter how little. But if he is compelled by illness, may Allah forbid it, or something similar, Allah does not burden a soul except with what it can bear. Please.

The questioner : ... one percent. One of them exposed it from his work. It is permissible to ask our brother; perhaps the person's salary is simple, but the banks, of course, out of their wickedness, sometimes pick up the amount, the salary amount. Let us suppose, for example, the entire Ministry of Finance or the Ministry of Agriculture picks up, for example, an amount of, let us suppose, hundreds of millions. They received the amount from the government but delay it with them so they can use it. And every time the employee inquires, they say it has not yet arrived from the ministry. And he goes to the ministry and they say, no, of course. This period of four or five days, they have used this money and so on. But there is no power and no strength except with Allah ... .

The Shaykh : This, in any case, has no relation to the employee; rather, this is one of their tricks. "Woe to the she-camel" as it is said, meaning on top of their work with usury or interest, they delay this money with them, and they have no right to do so. Are we finished? May Allah reward you with good.

Another questioner : Our Shaykh, may Allah bless you. Now we have finished, for example, the issue of the association. But is there a connection between organized collective work and associations? I think, and Allah knows best, is there ... .

The Shaykh : The answer has preceded. If they are working in the Islamic department, and they do not oppose one another, and none of them harbors hatred against the others, I do not see a barrier in that. But this, in reality, as a reality, is very rare.
Another questioner: Because, may Allah bless you, it is not befitting for anyone to make the foundation of his calling or his gathering an association or so on. It should be that the foundation is, meaning, the methodology of the people of the Sunnah and the community. But if he makes his foundation a calling ... .

The Shaykh : "She returned to her old habit."

The questioner : He made the foundation of his calling, for example, an association. It is possible that at that time, a type of partisanship occurs. So we make the methodology of the people of the Sunnah and the community, according to the understanding of the Salaf, the foundation. If he makes it the foundation, it does not necessitate that, for example, this kind of partisanship occurs.

The Shaykh : But remember that I insist that students of knowledge stay away.

Another questioner : All right, may Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good.