Showing posts with label strike. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strike. Show all posts

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Ruling on going on strike

What is the ruling on going on strike to attain some workers’ demands or to improve their situation?

Praise be to Allaah.

Striking is a breach of the contract between the worker and his employer, and Allaah calls on us in His Book to honour and uphold the contracts that one person may take upon himself towards another person. So the worker has to do all the work that he agreed to do in a manner that pleases Allaah and in accordance with the aayah (interpretation of the meaning);
“O you who believe! Fulfil (your) obligations…”
[al-Maa’idah 5:1]