Giving a worker money to give him preference over others
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: Is it permissible for a person to give a worker in a certain establishment a sum of money in order to give him preference over others?
The Shaykh:
Is it permissible?
The questioner:
Is it permissible for a man to give a worker in an establishment a sum of money?
The Shaykh:
In an establishment. Yes. Yes.
The questioner:
In an establishment, a sum of money, in order to give him preference over others?
The Shaykh:
This is a bribe. The one who takes it and the one who gives it are both cursed. This is the bribe: the one who pays the official to give him preference over others, or pays the employee to give him preference over others. This is the explicit form of bribery. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: Is it permissible for a person to give a worker in a certain establishment a sum of money in order to give him preference over others?
The Shaykh:
Is it permissible?
The questioner:
Is it permissible for a man to give a worker in an establishment a sum of money?
The Shaykh:
In an establishment. Yes. Yes.
The questioner:
In an establishment, a sum of money, in order to give him preference over others?
The Shaykh:
This is a bribe. The one who takes it and the one who gives it are both cursed. This is the bribe: the one who pays the official to give him preference over others, or pays the employee to give him preference over others. This is the explicit form of bribery. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 17-10-1434هـ — af.org.sa (1:04:51)
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