without the consent of both parties. If an employer threatens to dismiss an employee without any reasons before the agreed period of employment ends or an employee threatens to give up the job whereas the employer needs the employee to continue working, this is not right. However, under certain Shar’i compulsion, any of them can terminate the contract before the decided period ends. (Ibid, pp. 12)

10    Watchmen, security guards or policemen etc., are required to guard (a house, building etc.) remaining awake. If they go to sleep deliberately during duty hours, they will be sinner. Furthermore, they will have to get their salary deducted for the amount of time during which they slept or remained heedless to their job (whether deliberately or unintentionally). (Ibid, pp. 19)

To learn various Sunan, obtain the following books, Bahar-e-Shari’ah part 16 comprising of 312 pages and Sunnatayn aur Adaab, comprising of 120   pages, both published by Maktaba-tul-Madinah, the publishing department of Dawat-e-Islami.