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**tactWeiccaf** · 01-08-2012, 01:40 PM

This unfortunate situation is not just limited to the UK but many other countries. However it is a lengthy topic. There are 2 ways of looking at it.

1. Ulema should not accept any money for islamic related duties. The problem with this is that ulema spend at least 7+ years studying and maybe 10+ years if you include hifz. If a person becomes an alim say starts at the age of 16 (let us assume that he does hifz before 16 so starts hifz at 12). So the earliest the alim graduates is the age of 23. Thereafter we are telling the alim to work full time but he has no qualifications/experience? What kind of religious services will he be able to provide? How about marriage? This way the alim is left working long hours as a taxi driver. This is just something to think about.

2. Second scenario is the community makes the maulana profession a good profession with a decent wage and thus the maulnaa can devote all his time to studying, teaching islam etc.

This is a major major problem these days.

The problem is tigerkhan is that if we decide to not take any money for islamic services the maulana will not be able to do ANY service of deen as he is busy working long hours. Even if we assume the alim is a zahid the cost of living is too high in the west.

All in all it's a major problem.

01-08-2012, 01:40 PM	#5
tactWeiccaf Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 581 Senior Member	This unfortunate situation is not just limited to the UK but many other countries. However it is a lengthy topic. There are 2 ways of looking at it. 1. Ulema should not accept any money for islamic related duties. The problem with this is that ulema spend at least 7+ years studying and maybe 10+ years if you include hifz. If a person becomes an alim say starts at the age of 16 (let us assume that he does hifz before 16 so starts hifz at 12). So the earliest the alim graduates is the age of 23. Thereafter we are telling the alim to work full time but he has no qualifications/experience? What kind of religious services will he be able to provide? How about marriage? This way the alim is left working long hours as a taxi driver. This is just something to think about. 2. Second scenario is the community makes the maulana profession a good profession with a decent wage and thus the maulnaa can devote all his time to studying, teaching islam etc. This is a major major problem these days. The problem is tigerkhan is that if we decide to not take any money for islamic services the maulana will not be able to do ANY service of deen as he is busy working long hours. Even if we assume the alim is a zahid the cost of living is too high in the west. All in all it's a major problem.
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