Contracts of lease include working as employee and hiring the property as well as those who are under guardianship, the animal, or the dress in a legal way of lease. It is licit to work as employee or let the house, the land, or one of the properties that is profitable. It is acceptable to be wage-worker or give the son, slave, or hireling in lease provided that he himself is not the representative or the guardian on the guardian. It is also acceptable to work as employee or give the son, the kinsmen, the slave, or the representative in lease, because the previous categories are the representatives of the hireling. They are not the guardians of the guardian.
As example of this is the porter who carries definite things to definite places; hence, he can port that thing (if it is legal) himself or by his servant or animal, or he himself does that act or hire his servant, kinsman, or hireling. These are the forms of contracts of lease. They are legal for all people, whether they were servants, populace, atheists, or believers. The lease and earnings of such ways of lease are legal.
The examples of the illegal contracts of lease are to hire oneself for porting prohibited things, such as prohibited food, drink, and dress, or to manufacture, keep, or use such illegal things, or destroy mosques, or kill illegally, or carry pictures, statues, musical instruments, wine, pork, corpses, blood, or any feature of corruption that is prohibited on ways other than lease.
It is illicit to hire oneself for any prohibited matter or any part of it except in cases of legal prof-its, such as employing for carrying a corpse to save oneself or others from its harm or the like profits.
The difference between work in governmental offices and contracts of lease is that the previous means to work for the officials of the rulers and their officials as their representative out of their power following what they enjoin and what they forbid. It also stands for supporting and backing the rulers. Hence, the governmental official is the representative of his chief. They are considered as same as their masters who control people by killing and spreading injustice and corruption.
The contracts of lease, on the other hand, stand for, as we have previously explained, hiring from others. Hence, the hirer will not have control over the hireling before he meets the regulations of lease. The contracts of lease are legal as we have previously shown.