What is the ruling on working with a commercial registration in another person's name, and what is the ruling on the money the guarantor takes from the workers monthly?
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The questioner : I am from an Arab country and I have a commercial registration for which I pay annual fees. I use it to obtain commercial licenses for tailoring, blacksmithing, and grocery stores, and I rent them out to people I bring in under my sponsorship after clearing their transactions with the official authorities. This process may take days or weeks, and I bear the responsibility for these workers and their violations. In the event of their death, I bear the cost of repatriating them to their countries, which is a large sum after difficult legal procedures. So, am I entitled to take a fee for these services and the time I wasted and spent serving them, in the amount of one riyal for each worker?
The Shaykh : The workers who are brought into the country: it is obligatory for the one who brought them in to proceed according to the regulations in this matter. And what I know is that the regulations do not allow anyone to give these workers something to trade with, which is in his name but is actually theirs, and to take taxes from them every month. This is contrary to the regulations and is a injustice to these workers from another angle, because the worker may toil and earn throughout the week or the month and not get the tax that was imposed on him by his guarantor. And more ugly than that is the one who brings the workers and then abandons them and leaves them, saying, "Bring me two hundred or the like every month," and leaves them. This is also forbidden and consuming wealth unjustly, and it is also contrary to the regulations. So these greedy people should fear Allah in themselves and in these workers, and they should know that they have a standing before Allah the Exalted and Majestic, where He will hold them accountable for their violations of their country's laws and for their injustice to their Muslim brothers or to those who came from among the non-Muslims under a treaty, which is the lease contract with them.
The Shaykh : The workers who are brought into the country: it is obligatory for the one who brought them in to proceed according to the regulations in this matter. And what I know is that the regulations do not allow anyone to give these workers something to trade with, which is in his name but is actually theirs, and to take taxes from them every month. This is contrary to the regulations and is a injustice to these workers from another angle, because the worker may toil and earn throughout the week or the month and not get the tax that was imposed on him by his guarantor. And more ugly than that is the one who brings the workers and then abandons them and leaves them, saying, "Bring me two hundred or the like every month," and leaves them. This is also forbidden and consuming wealth unjustly, and it is also contrary to the regulations. So these greedy people should fear Allah in themselves and in these workers, and they should know that they have a standing before Allah the Exalted and Majestic, where He will hold them accountable for their violations of their country's laws and for their injustice to their Muslim brothers or to those who came from among the non-Muslims under a treaty, which is the lease contract with them.