Teach wages for Ustadz/Teacher/Bachelor/Missionary

QUESTION:

I just saw the video of the study he said haram an ustadz received an envelope from his lecture. It’s already common, and to appreciate the time, energy, knowledge, conveyed by the cleric …? How about it according to Ust? (+62 857-7296-xxxx)

ANSWER

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim ..

A teacher, both religious teachers (teaching the Koran, fiqh, etc.), and worldly science teachers, both in official institutions such as schools, campuses, pesantren, or in mosques or office recitation, both monthly or each session, are cases that are debated by fiqh scholars.

Some scholars forbid wages from teaching religion, such as the opinion of Imam Abu Hanifah and Classical Hanafiyah, for those wages from teaching religion it is feared to damage the vulnerable values of sincerity and blessings, and bring in the attitude of commercialization of religion.

In addition, the Prophet Sallallaahu ‘Alaihi wa Sallam specifically forbade valid hadith:

Read the Qur’an, don’t boil in it, don’t dry it, don’t eat it, and don’t double it with it

Read the Quran, do not go beyond the limits of reading it, don’t be stiff, don’t try to eat it, and not improve the world with it. (Jam Ahmad no. 15670)

But the scholars (the majority) scholars say it can, both Malikiyah, Shafi’iyah, Hanabilah, and Hanafiyah from the next generation. But this ability must be decorated with heart and not wages as the main focus on teaching.

From Abu Sa’id Al Khudri Radhiallahu ‘Anhu, the Prophet Sallallaahu’ Alaihi wa Sallam said:

If you have the right to do what you have taken for the Book of God

Indeed, your most worthy wages are from (teaching) the Bible. (HR. Muttafaq ‘alaih)

Imam An Nawawi Rahimahullah said:

This is a statement that is permissible to take the fee on the ruqyah, by al -fatihah, and al -dhikr, and that is permissible that is not hatred, as well as the wages on teaching the Qur’an, and this is the Doctrine of Al -Shafi’i, Malik, Ahmad, Ishaq, Abuq, and otherers Padecessors, and those after them

“This is an explanation of the ability to take wages from Meruqyah with Al Fatihah, Dhikr, it is without law, so take wages from teaching Al -Koran, this is the Syafi’iy, Malik, Ahmad, Ishaq, Abu Tsaur, and other Salaf schools after them.” (Al Minhaj Syarh Sahih Muslim, 14/188)

For them, those forbidden are merely reading the Koran, then given money. This is forbidden as Imam Ahmad’s hadith above and the following hadith:

Read everything that is good and will use the standing that they will make, because praise is determined, they immediately rush and do not abuse it

“Read the Quran with good reading, people who read it by straightening it when the arrow is straightened, but they only hope for a synchronous prize (material) and they do not expect a delayed gift (in the hereafter).”
(Clock Abu David no. 830, Hasan)

Bachelor at Al Lajnah Daimah, Saudi Government:

“It is permissible for you to take a reward for teaching the Qur’an, because the prophet, may God’s Prayers and peace be upon him, married a man to teach him what he has from the Qur’an, and that was her friendship, and the companion His promotion to him by the opening of the book, and he said in that the prophet, May God’s Prayers and Peace Be Upon Him: With His Reading, “End

It is possible for you to take wages from teaching the Koran. Because the Prophet Sallallaahu ‘Alaihi wa Sallam married a man with a woman, the man taught the Al -Koran woman he had read, and that was his dowry. Friends also take wages from treating the disease of people who do not believe in their mercy with Al Fatihah. In this case the Prophet Sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam: Indeed, the most entitled to his salary is from (teaching) the book of God. (Hours. Bukhari and Muslim).

Indeed, what is forbidden is only a wage from just reading the Quran, and asks people to read it. (Fatawa Al Lajnah Daimah, 15/96)

This opinion that allows this stronger if the condition of religious teachers experiences life difficulties, then it can take wages, because if not, religious teaching activities can stop, ignorance of religion is even more rampant; Do not know hijaiyah, do not understand recitation, cannot pray and short letters, do not know the history of the prophets and companions of the Prophet, fiqh of worship, etc.

This opinion is stronger when Muslims need a systematic and sustainable religious education institution. As well as an autocritic to the people when they display artists, private teachers, gymnastics, with expensive fees, while the teacher or cleric/ah at the TPA/TPQ, Islamic educational institutions, whose days have been finished serving the people are valued only with Jazakallah Khairan.

On the other hand, the clerics must also be muhasabah for their intentions, stay focused lillahi ta’ala, not making the world’s targets and luxury. Position the wages he received as a worldly bonus, not the main goal. In order not to abort the pious deeds of teaching.

Imam as a subki explains gifts or wages for Ustadz and speakers:

It did not join the judges: mufti, preachers, teachers of the Qur’an and science; Because they do not have the feasibility of coercion, and the first is in their rights if the gift is for the sake of fatwa, sermons and education: lack of acceptance; Become their work purely for God Almighty, and if he is given to them, they are a pawn and seduce their knowledge and kindness: the first is acceptance, and this is the guidance of its predecessor

“Mufti, lecturers, and teachers of the Qur’an and knowledge, are not included in the category of judges, because they do not have the authority to decide the case in a binding. What is more important for them, if gifts are given because of their fatwa, advice, or teaching, it does not accept it so that their charity remains pure because of Allah Ta’ala. Salaf “. (An Najmu Al Wahhaj, 10/199-200)

Thus. Wallahu a’lam

✍️Farid Numan Hasan

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