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  Ads by Muslim Ad Network About Islam Search Toggle Menu Ads by Muslim Ad Network Home Ask the Scholar Prayer Can Mosque Imams Earn a Salary? A A A Can Mosque Imams Earn a Salary? 22 October, 2022 Q As-salamu `alaykum. Can Mosque imams obtain a salary for leading people in Prayer? Is the salary he obtains a halal one? ANSWER Dr. Anwar Dabbour 22 October, 2022 In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger. In this fatwa: There is nothing wrong that the mosque imams receiving a salary for leading people in Prayer and delivering Friday sermon, Answering your question about mosque imam taking salaries,  Dr. Anwar Dabbour , Professor of Shari`ah at the Faculty of Law, Cairo University, states: There is nothing wrong with the imam who delivers the  khutbah   ( sermon ) in a Mosque obtaining a salary from either the  Mosque  board or from the government. Ads by Muslim Ad N...

  Support IslamQA  Please contribute generously in order to ensure the continuity of our website InshaAllah. Contribute Call for prayer Related topic Ruling on receiving a salary for giving the adhaan  18-12-2010          Question 146964 I am a man who works as a muezzin in return for a salary from the awqaaf. It was said to me: If you receive a salary then you will not get the reward. And I do not want that; rather I want the reward. Please note that I only take the salary because I do not have any other income, but I prefer the reward of the Hereafter to the reward of this world. I hope that you will clarify this, may Allah bless you. Answer Praise be to Allah. It is proven that the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said to ‘Uthmaan ibn Abi’l-‘Aas, when he asked him to be the imam of his people: “You are their imam; pay attention to the weak among them, and appoint a muezzin who does not take any payment for his adhaan.”  T...