The contractor’s trade

Question

Question: Zayd is a contractor and works on a supplementary contract; the government has fixed no salary for the contractor, so after carrying out the work he saves some money out of it and supports himself with that. Is it permissible for Zayd to save and take money from this or not? And if he does not take this contract, the government will give it to someone else, and the other contractor does not even do the work the way Zayd does; rather, he gobbles up more of the funds than him.

Answer

If the government gave a contract for some work and Zayd accepted it on the terms “I will take so many rupees and do it,” then this is correct; and then whether exactly that much money is spent on it, or less or more, all of it is correct.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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