A Promise of a Salary Increase

Question

The staff of a madrasa submitted an application to the madrasa’s rector for a salary increase. The rector presented the application to the madrasa’s patron. Because of his commitments the patron could not consider it for several months. The madrasa’s employees kept submitting applications at short intervals. The rector promised the employees that whatever increase there would be, it would take effect from the past month of Muharram al-Haram.

Answer

If it was the madrasa’s patron himself who promised the salary increase from 1 Muharram but forgot it and did not get the opportunity to fulfil the promise, and moreover the welfare (maslaha) of the madrasa requires that the increase be made from 1 Muharram — otherwise a door will open to abusive talk and suspicion, and some other unsuitable situation may also arise, for…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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