A Mutawalli Calling the Muezzin “Ungrateful”

Question

A man is the muezzin of a congregational mosque; he takes his meals at the houses of the neighbourhood and at the house of the mosque’s mutawalli. The mutawalli wanted to get the muezzin to back some wrongful matter, and when he refused, called the muezzin “ungrateful” (lit. “false to his salt”). Because of this the muezzin does not eat at his house. What is the ruling for them?

Answer

For the mutawalli to call a muezzin who is not negligent in the service of the mosque and in his duties “ungrateful” merely because he refused to support his wrongful matter is very wrong and impermissible. If the muezzin has stopped taking food from his house, he has done well and is within his rights — so that in future there remains neither the risk of being made to back a…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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