Teacher tutoring students outside of school (private lessons)
Question: 12332
Some students ask their teachers for help with their studies outside of school with things that they don’t understand, in return for payment. Knowing that the student is the one who is asking the teacher for that, is there any difference in the ruling if the student is studying with that teacher in the same school? Does this go against the words of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), “Seeking knowledge is obligatory upon every Muslim”?
Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.
There is nothing wrong with a student
asking a teacher for help outside the classroom to teach him and help
him understand the subjects he is studying, whether that is with his
own teacher or another teacher. But if the regulations of the school
do not allow that, then the student should adhere to the regulations
that concern him. But if there are no such regulations, then there is
no reason why he should not have some teachers to tutor him outside
of school hours in his home or in the mosque. There is nothing wrong
with that.
Source:
Kitaab Majmoo’ Fataawa wa Maqaalaat Mutanawwi’ah li Samaahat al-Shaykh al-‘Allaamah ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him), vol. 8, p. 279 .
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