Shari'a ta bayyana ma'aikaci a matsayin duk wanda yake aiki don samun albashi, ko mai ɗaukar aikin ya zama mutum ɗaya, ko ƙungiya, ko Gwamnati. Don haka kalmar ma'aikaci tana shafar duk wanda ke aiki a kowane irin aiki.

The Islamic Shar’a defines the employee as every person who works for a wage, whether the employer is an individual, or a group, or a State. So the term employee applies to everyone who works in any type of work,

babu wani bambanci a hukuncin Allah tsakanin ma'aikacin Gwamnati da ma'aikacin wasu. Don haka, game da ma'aikacin Gwamnati, ma'aikacin jama'a, da ma'aikacin mutum, kowannensu ma'aikaci ne, dokokin aiki kuma suna shafar kowannensu. Wato kowannensu ma'aikaci ne, kuma dokokin ɗaukar aiki suna shafar kowannensu. Saboda haka manomi ma'aikaci ne, bawa ma'aikaci ne, ma'aikatan masana'antu ma'aikata ne, ma'aikatan 'yan kasuwa ma'aikata ne, ma'aikatan gwamnati ma'aikata ne, kuma kowannensu ma'aikaci ne. Wannan saboda kwangilar ɗaukar aiki tana kan amfanin kadarori, ko amfanin aiki, ko amfanin mutum. Idan da za a yi amfani da ita a kan amfanin kadarori, to maudu'in ma'aikaci ba ya cikinta, domin ba shi da alaka da ita. Idan kuma za a yi amfani da ita a kan amfanin aiki, kamar ɗaukar sana'a don wasu ayyuka, ko kuma a kan amfanin mutum, kamar ɗaukar bayi da ma'aikata, to waɗannan suna da alaka da ma'aikaci, kuma wannan shi ne abin da maudu'in ɗaukar aiki ya shafa.

with no difference in the divine rule between the employee of the State and the employee of others. So concerning the employee of the State, the employee of the group, and the employee of the individual, each of them is a worker, and the laws of labour apply on them. In other words each of them is an employee and the rules of hiring apply on them. So the farmer is an employee, the servant is an employee, the workers in factories are employees, the clerks of merchants are employees, the civil servants are employees, and every one of them is a worker. This is because the contract of hiring is over the benefits of the assets, the benefit of the work or the benefit of the person. If this were to be applied on the benefits of the assets then the subject of the employee is not included in it, as he has no relation with it. If it were to be applied on the benefit of the work such as hiring a craftsmen for certain works, or if it applies on the benefit of the person such as hiring servants and workers, then these relate to the employee, and this is what the subject of employment applies upon.