What are the rights that the sons can separate from their father because of their work?

The questioner : So what are the rights now that they can separate from their father?

The Shaykh : No, they have no rights. The answer has already been given.

The questioner : The previous one? I do not want that. This previous one, now, since...

The Shaykh : They have no rights, my brother. Now, they may agree or not agree; that is a matter up to them and their father to reach some kind of agreement. Now, an agreement is put in place that grants rights to each individual among those who cooperate with the father. I am mentioning this more clearly than before, because that is enough for me, and praise be to Allah. The brother’s answer was that their work was with their father, the work of righteous sons with their father. Because I know that many of these people demand from their fathers their previous efforts. These people treat their father as an employer treats an employee, not as a son treats his father. And this is not permissible, of course, in Islam, based on the well-known hadith known to everyone: . But there is no doubt or ambiguity that the sons grow up, and they may get married and become heads of families. They are in need of sustenance that comes to them from the earnings of their hands and the sweat of their brows. And if they have no other work or other means by which to obtain what they need of expenses, then at that time they spend, as I said earlier, with the father in a manner in which His saying—Exalted is He—applies: . And it should never be the case that one looks here at what the brother pointed out regarding the reality of people who started working early and people who started late. There is no doubt that the efforts of the older and earlier ones are more fruitful than those of the later ones, and so on. Furthermore, there are other brothers who did not participate in the efforts of this partnership or in this factory. One does not look at what has passed. So they agree again to achieve what I pointed out earlier, namely their obtaining of... and their daily sustenance. Perhaps I have answered as well.

The questioner : Very clear. May Allah reward you.