Is teaching the Qur'an for a fee in the mosque considered trading in the mosque?
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The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : No, no, it is not a fee; this is a reward or a prize.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : As for those who memorize the Qur'an now in Qur'an memorization schools, or the memorizers in the mosques, there is no fee for them. But in the past, there were reciters in the Sacred Mosque who would gather, five, six, or sometimes ten, and one of them would recite so that people would give them charity. These are the ones who must be prevented, because they intended to seek something of this world through the work of the Hereafter.
As for the halaqah, they did not intend that, but we have a question about this regarding the Sacred Mosque: if a poor man stopped you to give him charity, and you had only a fifty-riyal note, could you say, "Take this note and give me forty back"?
We say this is currency exchange. It is said that, apparently, and Allah knows best, this is permissible, because it is far removed from trading and far removed from currency exchange. The hadith is:Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1321Sahih (Darussalam) It appears that there is nothing wrong with something like this, and that it is not considered under the category of trading. Yes, Yusuf.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : Yes, regarding what he has not repented from. As for what he has repented from, it has been erased by the repentance. Yes.
The Shaykh : No, no, it is not a fee; this is a reward or a prize.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : As for those who memorize the Qur'an now in Qur'an memorization schools, or the memorizers in the mosques, there is no fee for them. But in the past, there were reciters in the Sacred Mosque who would gather, five, six, or sometimes ten, and one of them would recite so that people would give them charity. These are the ones who must be prevented, because they intended to seek something of this world through the work of the Hereafter.
As for the halaqah, they did not intend that, but we have a question about this regarding the Sacred Mosque: if a poor man stopped you to give him charity, and you had only a fifty-riyal note, could you say, "Take this note and give me forty back"?
We say this is currency exchange. It is said that, apparently, and Allah knows best, this is permissible, because it is far removed from trading and far removed from currency exchange. The hadith is:
May Allah not profit your business.
لا أربح الله تجارتكThe questioner : ...
The Shaykh : Yes, regarding what he has not repented from. As for what he has repented from, it has been erased by the repentance. Yes.