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Charging money for teaching Islamic sciences | Mufti Abu Layth

fiqah jurisprudence fikh hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith azan azaan athan adhaan call to prayer imaam imams prayer leader masjed masaajid masajid mosque maaliki malikite malikiyyah maliki school hanafite hanafiyyah hanafi school muftis mubah mubaah koran quraan al-quran madinah madina al-madinah madeenah yathrib aalim ulema ulamaa madrasa madrassa madaris madrassah religious school

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A lot else is going on. Is it okay to charge to teach the Quran? Right, this is an issue of debate amongst the scholars traditionally. And the the Hanafi scholars didn't agree with that. So, they generally felt it was impermissible. Although the school of Medina, the Maliki ulama, felt that uh it is permissible to teach to charge to teach things like fiqh or to teach Quran or to teach hadith or to teach Arabic or whatever it is that they felt or to do adhan um In fact, uh in fact, one of the early

0:39

one of There's a classical book written on this by uh an Andalusi scholar from Granada on the Imam as the mu'adhdhin taking a salary and uh for doing the adhan and and the Imam and things like and I think that there's no harm really because, you know, if you don't value these things, the problem will be that you're not going to get the creme de la creme that rise.

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Like it's like today, because knowledge and scholarship is a redundant faculty that once you become an Imam, there's nothing to do, you know, you can once you become an alim, there's nothing to do. Like you can either teach in a local masjid where you get paid £100 a week, which is ridiculous. I'm not even sure if that's legal. But you probably get paid something like that. Or, you know, you could teach at some basic madrasah and but there's nothing to do.

1:33

So, people with talent are not drawn to this field. People with talent one of them become doctors and dentists and lawyers and um whereas if this field genuinely paid well, you would draw talent. Naturally, people follow the money. There's nothing wrong, I think. So, if you want really talent, you have to pay well.

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You know, that's unfortunately the the thing. So, So, I don't believe in this. And then I suppose if somebody's taking his time out to teach the Quran or do Imamah in a masjid, then he should we shouldn't expect them to do it for free. I do think that's a bit, you know, taking the make. But

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, March 7). Charging money for teaching Islamic sciences | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/-qgpxxphopc/
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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Charging money for teaching Islamic sciences | Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2020},
  month = {3},
  date = {2020-03-07},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/-qgpxxphopc/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}