Remuneration for amulets, charm threads and preaching

Question

Question: When a boy completes his education and becomes a hafiz, he takes up no livelihood but only starts making amulets and knotted charm threads, taking fifteen rupees from one and twenty from another, and begins to lead people astray; and sometimes he preaches and afterwards asks for himself. We have heard in sermons that the Qur’an is a great treasure in which everything is present, and these people earn their living by using its name. To what extent is it permissible to take money in this way?

Answer

If someone who knows the method of amulets and charm threads takes a wage for it, this wage is permissible, provided that he does not practise deception and does not make amulets contrary to the Shari‘a. If one is employed for preaching and the arrangement is made in this way — for example, that one has to speak for 10–15 minutes after every prayer, or to preach every Friday —…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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