Ruling on taking a large wage for light work
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Question:
I receive a salary of six thousand five hundred riyals, but the work I do is very little, and my conscience is not at ease; because the daily income is about two hundred riyals, and I may not do anything on that day. So should I leave the job, or what? I feel that my supplication is not answered because of eating this salary without a clear work counterpart?
Answer:
If you are performing what you were hired for, and Allah has made easy for you work that involves no hardship, then thank your Lord for that. If Allah has made easy for you light work, and the employer and the employee are both pleased with this wage, you say: I do not want lightness, I want intensity. Praise be to Allah if He employed you for a daily wage of two hundred riyals, or a thousand riyals daily for light work on you. This is from the favor of Allah upon you. There is no harm in it for you, if there is no betrayal or anything of the sort; you have fulfilled the obligation.
So if a door guard comes to you and gives you two hundred every day, and you are a laid-back guard, that does not harm you in this. There is no harm on you. Praise be to Allah. And if a driver comes to you and gives you a thousand riyals, or two thousand riyals, and you do not drive in the day except once, or on some days you do not drive, then praise be to Allah. The point is, there is no harm on you, my son, if you fulfill the obligation that was stipulated for you. There is nothing on you, even if the wage is large. This is from the favor of Allah upon you, and praise be to Allah.
But there remains a clear point, which is the one who works in addition to the work he was hired for. The original ruling for this is permissibility and lawfulness. But there may be things that prevent the work. If his additional work harms his official work, this must be looked into. It is necessary to look into it. The state may have employed something in this regard or appointed something in this regard.
The intended meaning : That is, if his additional work does not harm the work he was brought in for, we do not know of any religious impediment. But if his additional work harms the work he was brought in for, meaning he does, for example, a lot of work that exhausts him, then when the work he was brought in for comes, he says, "I am tired and empty." This should not be. His additional work must not harm the work he was brought in for.
I receive a salary of six thousand five hundred riyals, but the work I do is very little, and my conscience is not at ease; because the daily income is about two hundred riyals, and I may not do anything on that day. So should I leave the job, or what? I feel that my supplication is not answered because of eating this salary without a clear work counterpart?
Answer:
If you are performing what you were hired for, and Allah has made easy for you work that involves no hardship, then thank your Lord for that. If Allah has made easy for you light work, and the employer and the employee are both pleased with this wage, you say: I do not want lightness, I want intensity. Praise be to Allah if He employed you for a daily wage of two hundred riyals, or a thousand riyals daily for light work on you. This is from the favor of Allah upon you. There is no harm in it for you, if there is no betrayal or anything of the sort; you have fulfilled the obligation.
So if a door guard comes to you and gives you two hundred every day, and you are a laid-back guard, that does not harm you in this. There is no harm on you. Praise be to Allah. And if a driver comes to you and gives you a thousand riyals, or two thousand riyals, and you do not drive in the day except once, or on some days you do not drive, then praise be to Allah. The point is, there is no harm on you, my son, if you fulfill the obligation that was stipulated for you. There is nothing on you, even if the wage is large. This is from the favor of Allah upon you, and praise be to Allah.
But there remains a clear point, which is the one who works in addition to the work he was hired for. The original ruling for this is permissibility and lawfulness. But there may be things that prevent the work. If his additional work harms his official work, this must be looked into. It is necessary to look into it. The state may have employed something in this regard or appointed something in this regard.
The intended meaning : That is, if his additional work does not harm the work he was brought in for, we do not know of any religious impediment. But if his additional work harms the work he was brought in for, meaning he does, for example, a lot of work that exhausts him, then when the work he was brought in for comes, he says, "I am tired and empty." This should not be. His additional work must not harm the work he was brought in for.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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