Ruling on Employing Disbelieving Workers
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Q: What is your opinion regarding institutions that employ workers from among the disbelievers?
A: It is not permissible to bring workers from the disbelievers into this Arabian Peninsula, because the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) instructed that the disbelievers be expelled from it, and he said:, and 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) carried that out.
We have pointed this out more than once on the program "Light on the Path," and in what we write in the newspapers, and to the rulers, may Allah guide them to all good. Because it is not permissible for polytheists to reside in this Peninsula, as we mentioned earlier, and it is not permissible to allow them to enter it except for a need, such as sellers of goods that are imported from the lands of the disbelievers to this Peninsula, or messengers who come from the lands of the disbelievers to meet the ruler in this Peninsula. However, it is not permissible for it to be a place of residence for them.
Likewise, it is not permissible to grant them citizenship, meaning the citizenship of its residents, because that is a means to residing there. Because the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) instructed that the disbelievers be expelled from this Peninsula, as mentioned above, and it is obligatory to prevent any of them who are in it from displaying the rituals of their religion.
As for bringing them in to be workers or employees there, or the like of that, it is not permissible; rather, one must be cautious of them, and one should do without them by employing Muslim workers, and suffice with them in work instead of the disbelievers, except in the case of extreme necessity that the one in authority sees for bringing in some of them for matters that are absolutely necessary, and there is no one among the Muslims to do them, or a craft that the Muslims do not master, and the need for it is pressing, or the like of that. Then, after the need for them ends, they are returned to their lands, just as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) allowed the Jews to remain in Khaybar out of necessity, and then 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) expelled them when the need for them ceased.
A: It is not permissible to bring workers from the disbelievers into this Arabian Peninsula, because the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) instructed that the disbelievers be expelled from it, and he said:
Two religions cannot coexist in it
لا يجتمع فيها دينانWe have pointed this out more than once on the program "Light on the Path," and in what we write in the newspapers, and to the rulers, may Allah guide them to all good. Because it is not permissible for polytheists to reside in this Peninsula, as we mentioned earlier, and it is not permissible to allow them to enter it except for a need, such as sellers of goods that are imported from the lands of the disbelievers to this Peninsula, or messengers who come from the lands of the disbelievers to meet the ruler in this Peninsula. However, it is not permissible for it to be a place of residence for them.
Likewise, it is not permissible to grant them citizenship, meaning the citizenship of its residents, because that is a means to residing there. Because the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) instructed that the disbelievers be expelled from this Peninsula, as mentioned above, and it is obligatory to prevent any of them who are in it from displaying the rituals of their religion.
As for bringing them in to be workers or employees there, or the like of that, it is not permissible; rather, one must be cautious of them, and one should do without them by employing Muslim workers, and suffice with them in work instead of the disbelievers, except in the case of extreme necessity that the one in authority sees for bringing in some of them for matters that are absolutely necessary, and there is no one among the Muslims to do them, or a craft that the Muslims do not master, and the need for it is pressing, or the like of that. Then, after the need for them ends, they are returned to their lands, just as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) allowed the Jews to remain in Khaybar out of necessity, and then 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) expelled them when the need for them ceased.
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