He says: If a man works for a company and his job requires traveling to farms and repairing machines and agricultural equipment, and after finishing this work...

The questioner : He says: If a man works for a company and his job requires traveling to farms and repairing machines and agricultural equipment, and after finishing this work, the owner of this work gives him an unspecified amount of money, and the worker did not ask for it; on the contrary, he tries not to take it, but the owner insists on giving it to him in addition to his salary from the company, is this considered lawful, or is it not permissible for him to take it?

The Shaykh : The scrupulousness (wara') is not to accept this thing and to leave it, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent a worker for the charity, who is said to be Abdullah ibn al-Lutbiyyah. When he returned with the charity, he said: "This is for you, and this is a gift to me." So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave a sermon and disapproved of that, and said: This indicates, and his saying: , the reason for which the holders of public jobs were warned against accepting what is gifted to them. So this worker, if he had sat in his house, the owner of the orchard would not have gifted him anything. If it were not for the fact that he did the work for which he was gifted, and his work has a due reward from the company, then he should not accept anything from him, for this is safer and more scrupulous.

The questioner : This is a message from the questioner Muhammad al-Awadi al-Afifi, an Egyptian working in Iraq.