What is the ruling on taking a holiday for the Mawlid? And what is the ruling regarding what happens with salaries, where employees, when they receive their salaries from Bank al-Riyadh, may be left with less than fifty halalas, which they leave behind, and if the remainder exceeds fifty, the bank rounds it up for the recipient?
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The questioner : Your Eminence, some Islamic countries observe a holiday on the day of the Prophet’s Mawlid. But the question is about the salaries of some employees at Bank al-Riyadh. I think the bank’s method is that if the amount is less than fifty halalas, they leave it with them, and if it is more than fifty, they round it up to a riyal. What is the ruling on that? And what is the ruling on leaving these halalas at the bank, like Bank al-Riyadh? Is it cooperation in sin and transgression?
The Shaykh : But your question is a mixture.
The questioner : No, but this is information.
The Shaykh : It is information, but it is incorrect. Establishing a holiday for the occasion of the Mawlid festival is wrong, a great error, because that means establishing this religious innovation among the people, young and old, until they consider it a festival with a holiday, just as they observe holidays for 'Id al-Adha and 'Id al-Fitr. As for what you mentioned about being paid by a person, a bank, or otherwise, if the remainder exceeds half, they give you the full amount, and if the remainder is less than half, you allow it to be left, there is nothing wrong with that, because it falls under the category of completing the amount, and there is nothing wrong with a person completing less than his right or paying more than what is due on him. Yes.
The Shaykh : But your question is a mixture.
The questioner : No, but this is information.
The Shaykh : It is information, but it is incorrect. Establishing a holiday for the occasion of the Mawlid festival is wrong, a great error, because that means establishing this religious innovation among the people, young and old, until they consider it a festival with a holiday, just as they observe holidays for 'Id al-Adha and 'Id al-Fitr. As for what you mentioned about being paid by a person, a bank, or otherwise, if the remainder exceeds half, they give you the full amount, and if the remainder is less than half, you allow it to be left, there is nothing wrong with that, because it falls under the category of completing the amount, and there is nothing wrong with a person completing less than his right or paying more than what is due on him. Yes.