Sharḥ Riyāḍ al-ṢāliḥīnIbn al-'Uthaymin

The matter concerns the worker himself, for the employer says to him, “Either you work for four hundred, or I will send you back.” Yet he had originally hired him for six hundred and never paid him, so he is squarely included in this grave warning. The same applies to those who bring in laborers and fail to give them their wages, or who import them with no real job, abandon them in the markets, and tell them, “Go out and whatever you earn, half of it is mine,” or, for example, “Go out and each month you owe me three hundred or four hundred riyals.” All of this is unlawful—Allah’s refuge is sought—and it is not permissible for them. Whatever they consume is sheer suḥt (illicit wealth), and every body that is nourished by suḥt, the Fire is most deserving of it. Those who swallow the earnings of these poor workers—their supplications are not accepted, Allah’s refuge is sought. They call upon Allah but He does not answer them, for the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, described a man who embarks on a long journey, disheveled and dusty, raising his hands toward the sky, crying, “My Lord, my Lord,” while his food is unlawful, his clothing is unlawful, and he has been sustained on what is unlawful—so how can he be answered? What these people consume from the laborers’ wages, or what they oppressively withhold from them, they are devouring as pure suḥt. We ask Allah for safety.

A person must therefore fear Allah. I know that you will convey this to those tyrants—Allah’s refuge is sought—whom Allah has already afflicted with an immediate punishment. What is that immediate punishment? That they find this deed palatable, persist in it, and remain obstinate. Persistence in sin is itself a punishment—Allah’s refuge is sought. If Allah does not grant a person the favor of repenting from a sin, then know that his continuation in that sin is a punishment from Allah: with every sin he only grows farther from Allah, his misdeeds only increase, and his faith only diminishes.

So we ask Allah for guidance and success for ourselves and for them.

العامل، لأن قوله إما أن تعمل بأربعمائة وإلا سفرتك، هذا استأجره بستمائة ولم يعطه أجره، فيدخل في هذا الوعيد الشديد، وهؤلاء الذي يأتون بالعمال ولا يعطونهم أجورهم أو يأتون بهم وليس عندهم شغل، ولكن يتركونهم في الأسواق، ويقول اذهب وما حصلته فلي نصفه، أو مثلا يقول اذهب وعليك في الشهر ثلاثمائة ريال أو أربعمائة ريال، كل هذا حرام والعياذ بالله، ولا يحل لهم، وما أكلوه فإنه سحت، وكل جسد نبت من السحت فالنار أولى به، وهؤلاء الذين يأكلون أموال هؤلاء العمال المساكين، هؤلاء لا تقبل لهم دعوة والعياذ بالله، يدعون الله فلا يستجيب لهم؛ لأن النبي ﷺ ذكر الرجل يطيل السفر أشعث أغبر، يمد يديه إلى السماء: يا رب يا رب. ومطعمه حرام وملبسه حرام، وغذي من حرام، فأنى يستجاب له وما يأكل هؤلاء من أجور هؤلاء العمال أو يظلمونهم به، فإنهم يأكلونه سحتا نسأل الله العافية. فعلى الإنسان أن يتقي الله، أنا أعلم أنكم سوف تبلغون هذا إلى هؤلاء الظلمة والعياذ بالله، الذين عاقبهم الله عقوبة عاجلة والعياذ بالله ما هي العقوبة العاجلة؟ استمراء هذا العمل والاستمرار فيه والإصرار عليه، فإن الإصرار على الذنب عقوبة والعياذ بالله إذا لم يمن الله على الإنسان بالتوبة من الذنب فاعلم أن استمراره في هذا الذنب عقوبة من الله له، لأنه لا يزداد بهذا الذنب من الله إلا بعدا ولا تزداد سيئاته إلا كثرة، ولا يزداد إيمانه إلا نقصا. فنسأل الله لنا ولهم الهداية والتوفيق.

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