The Ruling on Giving a Gift to an Employee or Teacher

The questioner:
One may also take an omen from the fact that he is obligated to give a person, from among those he pays, what is called the customary gift, which is perhaps annual, until he is able to give it to someone else.

The Shaykh:
It is not permissible to give anything to an employee; this is a bribe. An employee, whether he is on a salary or otherwise, is not to be given anything by those who come to him for services, because this is a bribe. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the one who gives a bribe and the one who takes it. However, if you hire someone who is not an employee, someone from outside the workplace, to follow up on the matter and look into this customary payment at the government office, there is no harm in that, because he is not an employee. Yes. It is also not permissible for a student to give a gift to his teacher as long as he is studying with him, because this is a place of suspicion. Yes.

The questioner:
May Allah keep you.

The Shaykh:
After he graduates and after it is finished, there is no harm if you want to give him a car or a house; there is no harm. But during the studies, no, because you want him to increase your grades or pass you, right? Even if that is not your intention, because it is a place of suspicion. Yes. Likewise, he should not give him anything because his children are studying with him, because this is a place of suspicion. As long as his children are studying, or he is studying, he does not give him anything. But after graduation and after the end, there is no harm.

Another questioner:
If he himself studied, if he passed through his brothers or through people younger than him, meaning it is possible he can give you a new calculation, but on the basis that he gives you a grade.

The Shaykh:
His children sit with him.

Another questioner:
I mean, my brothers.

The Shaykh:
Or his brothers under his guardianship, no, it is not permissible. As long as his guardians are his brothers or his children sit with him, he does not give him anything. His salary that the school pays him is sufficient for him. Yes.

Another questioner:
The people were not lawful.

The Shaykh:
Even if it is because it harms the others, it becomes that those who do not give it are harmed, it harms the weak and the needy and those who have nothing, it harms them. And this deceiver looks at who gives him; whoever gave him, he raises him, and whoever did not give him, he harms him. This is not right.