Is It Permissible To Receive Payment For Reciting Qur’an?

Is it permissible to receive payment for reciting Qur’an?

Reciting the Holy Qur’an is a worship. Worship are not performed to obtain worldly gains but only to get the consent of Allah. For this reason, recitation of the Holy Qur’an in exchange for money or making payment for the recited Qur’an are not permissible in religious terms. There is no reward for such recitation (Mawsili, al-Ikhtiyar, II, 142, Ibn Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar, IX, 76-77).

So, it is more appropriate for a person to recite the surahs he knows in person rather than hiring people to recite Qur’an partially or entirely in order to grant its rewards to the souls of his dead relatives.

However, it is permissible to present an appropriate gift to a person who recites Qur’an partially or entirely for the consent of Allah without demanding money and bargaining . However, if it has become a custom to pay for the recitation of the Qur’an in a region and both sides know that, then the money given is a charge rather than a gift . For this reason, taking this money will not be halal.

Source: Presidency Of Religious Affairs The Turkey, High Board of Religious Affairs FATWA