The Labor Office offers students job opportunities in companies, but some companies tell the students to go and they will give them salaries without work, with the manager’s knowledge of this.
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The questioner : Your Eminence, the Labor and Workers Office offers students job opportunities in companies.
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : It offers them job opportunities in companies during the summer season.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : So some companies tell the students: “Go, and at the end of the month come and collect your salaries,” because there are no specialists or trainers, and it may cost them some money to teach these students, as some companies may be specialized in a specific type of work.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : So what is your opinion regarding this salary that is taken, even though the company manager is the one who ordered it?
The Shaykh : Yes, that is correct. They do this because the government obliges them to employ young people. So he tells the young man: “I will give you the salary, and I do not need you.” And this has warnings.
The first warning is that the one who takes the salary takes it without right, because the company is forced to do this, and no one’s wealth is lawful except with his willing consent.
The second warning is that he did not work, so he is consuming unlawful wealth.
The third is that it contradicts the government’s objective, because the apparent reason for the government’s obligation is not just for the money, but to protect the youth from idling in the markets, and perhaps corruption may occur from them in this state. Then it is to train the young man in work in this company so that he acquires experience.
If the youth, when the companies told them this, raised the matter to the government so that the objective would be achieved, that would be better. But unfortunately, many young people do not care; they say: “I take the salary and I am resting.” So what I see is that it is not permissible for him to take this salary and rest; rather, he must work. And he must also, if the company refuses him, raise the matter to the government to handle it. Yes, the one after him.
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : It offers them job opportunities in companies during the summer season.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : So some companies tell the students: “Go, and at the end of the month come and collect your salaries,” because there are no specialists or trainers, and it may cost them some money to teach these students, as some companies may be specialized in a specific type of work.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : So what is your opinion regarding this salary that is taken, even though the company manager is the one who ordered it?
The Shaykh : Yes, that is correct. They do this because the government obliges them to employ young people. So he tells the young man: “I will give you the salary, and I do not need you.” And this has warnings.
The first warning is that the one who takes the salary takes it without right, because the company is forced to do this, and no one’s wealth is lawful except with his willing consent.
The second warning is that he did not work, so he is consuming unlawful wealth.
The third is that it contradicts the government’s objective, because the apparent reason for the government’s obligation is not just for the money, but to protect the youth from idling in the markets, and perhaps corruption may occur from them in this state. Then it is to train the young man in work in this company so that he acquires experience.
If the youth, when the companies told them this, raised the matter to the government so that the objective would be achieved, that would be better. But unfortunately, many young people do not care; they say: “I take the salary and I am resting.” So what I see is that it is not permissible for him to take this salary and rest; rather, he must work. And he must also, if the company refuses him, raise the matter to the government to handle it. Yes, the one after him.