Is it permissible for an employee to receive a secondment allowance without going to the place to which he was seconded?
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The questioner : May Allah reward you, O Shaykh. Regarding military secondments, for example, in Riyadh, one is seconded to the Western Region but does not go. The secondment comes to you; you are not the one requesting it; they are the ones who assign you.
The Shaykh : By Allah, I see that first: it is not permissible for the authorities to assign a secondment salary or secondment allowance without the man going to where he was directed, because this is in fact a betrayal, a betrayal of the one in authority.
And second: if it happens that they give it to him without his requesting it, and he knows that he did not go, then if he is able to return it and say, "I do not accept it," without harm coming to him, let him do so. If he cannot do so except with harm, meaning that if he returns this allowance given to him without a secondment, the authorities who gave it to him would harm him, then he takes it and gives it in charity to get rid of it.
The Shaykh : By Allah, I see that first: it is not permissible for the authorities to assign a secondment salary or secondment allowance without the man going to where he was directed, because this is in fact a betrayal, a betrayal of the one in authority.
And second: if it happens that they give it to him without his requesting it, and he knows that he did not go, then if he is able to return it and say, "I do not accept it," without harm coming to him, let him do so. If he cannot do so except with harm, meaning that if he returns this allowance given to him without a secondment, the authorities who gave it to him would harm him, then he takes it and gives it in charity to get rid of it.