Abstract:
According the qur’ānic verses, God is the first teacher of the Qur’ān. The Prophet (s) used different methods to teach the Qur’ān and recommended others to teach it, especially to one’s children. The question of the permissibility or impermissibility of receiving wage for the teaching of the Qur’ān has brought about some disagreements among Muslim scholars, where each group has relied on some qur’ānic verses to prove its stance. In this article, the verses for the prohibition of receiving wage and the verses for the permissibility of receiving wage are presented and the interpretations of both these two groups of verses are examined and evaluated. At the end, a summary of the verses and the conclusions of the study are provided. Some jurisprudential denominations point out that the present-day Muslims do not have the vigorous faith of the Muslims of the early centuries and so, the impermissibility of receiving wage for the teaching of the Qur’ān and religious issues will lead to the abandonment of the Islamic rules. This way, they assert that receiving wage is permissible for the teaching of the Qur’ān. The adoption of this viewpoint has led to the prevalence of the Qur’ān and its teaching in the Muslim community.
Machine summary:
The question of the permissibility or impermissibility of receiving wage for the teaching of the Qur’ān has brought about some disagreements among Muslim scholars, where each group has relied on some qur’ānic verses to prove its stance.
As Jaṣāṣ says: “As a result, our companions have said that it is not permissible to receive wage to do acts related to Ḥajj, prayers, the teaching of the Qur’ān, and other deeds that need to be done with the intention of getting closer to God, as these verses and other similar ones clarify that receiving wage for suchlike actions takes [the person] away from the ‘proximity of God’ intention” (Jaṣāṣ, 1985, vol.
Arguing based on suchlike verses as well as narrations with similar content, some exegetes have taken the teaching of the Qur’ān – and other types of knowledge – in exchange for wage as an instance of selling the qur’ānic verses for a mean price, and so, have ruled for its impermissibility (Abū Ḥayyān Andulusī, 1999, vol.
Ibn ‘Abbās has interpreted this verse as the wage of teachers who condition teaching the Qur’ān to receiving wage (Nūrī, 1988, vol.
There are some verses in the Qur’ān with this content in which the prophets remind their people that they do not ask for any wage for their prophetic mission and their wage is on God. Some Muslim scholars have taken these verses to conclude that receiving wage for teaching religious issues, including the Qur’ān, is impermissible (Nasafī, 1988, vol.