Question:
Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah wa
barakatuhu
Barak Allahu feekum and keep you on the
path of Truth
I work as a Pharmacist, and the Labour
Social Welfare Law was enforced upon us, it is mandatory and if we do not pay
the fees, then we will not receive a work license ... They take an amount from
us and invest it in the bank, as was written in the contract, and upon the
death of the pharmacist colleague, the Social Welfare Fund gives 25,000
Jordanian Dinars to the family of the deceased. The question is: Is this permissible?
What should I recommend my family about
this money? Would it be valid if they take what I had paid and give the rest in
charity, or should it be returned to the Pharmacists Board, or what should they
do with it? May Allah reward you.
From
Sham Al-Izz
Answer:
Wa Alaykom Assalam Wa Rahmatullah Wa
Barakatuh
The Labour Social Welfare Law has
different definitions... if it is similar to the pensions law in the boards,
i.e. the Pharmacists Board forces you to subscribe to its pensions law and pay
specific amount of fees, while if you don't, you will not be allowed to work as
a Pharmacist, i.e. you would not receive a Pharmacy Work License if you do not
subscribe to it and pay the fees... then after a specific age, you are given a
Pensions salary and / or a specific amount of money after death... if this was
the case, and this subscription is mandatory otherwise you will not be allowed
to work as a Pharmacist, then it is permissible to subscribe to it because this
serves as taking a permit for a Mubah (permissible) job, and this is allowed,
but in case the subscription and paying of fees becomes optional, and would not
affect the job permit, then subscribing in it would be Haram.
As for the Board investing the money in
Riba, then if this stops at your consent, i.e. if you consented to the
investing of what you pay of fees of Riba, then it would be considered Riba,
but if you did not consent, then it would not be, in this case, it is not
permitted for you to approve to running your money into Riba. As for if running
it into Riba was not done at your decision, i.e. not in your hands and then
there is nothing upon you, as long as your subscription and paying the fees do
not go beyond taking the work permit.
As for what is given to your family
upon your death by the Fund in this case, i.e. in the case where your
subscription is only limited to what is necessary to take the work permit, then
they are allowed to take it, and they deserve the inheritance... And I
personally would like from you to designate a part of it to the poor and the
needy, because this is better and more kind, may Allah (swt) lengthen your life
to do all that is good.
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