What is the ruling on a gift given to a manager on the occasion of his moving to a new residence?
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. I am a school principal, and my colleague teachers gave me a gift on the occasion of my new residence. What is the ruling on me accepting this gift? Knowing that one of the teachers moved into a new house before me and they did not give him anything like this.
The Shaykh:
There is no harm in taking from your teacher colleagues, because this involves no suspicion or wrongdoing. Rather, it is the students from whom you do not take gifts. Because that involves the suspicion that you will pass some and fail others. As for the colleagues, there is nothing wrong with it, if Allah wills. Even if they did not give your first colleague something like this. Yes.
The questioner:
He is a school principal, what is the ruling?
The Shaykh:
No, the school principal does not take from the teachers, because he is responsible for them, because he is responsible for them. So if they give him something, this becomes a bribe. He will be biased toward them and not consider the one who did not give him anything; he will not consider him, and he will develop a preference for them. So the principal does not take, and the teacher does not take from the students. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. I am a school principal, and my colleague teachers gave me a gift on the occasion of my new residence. What is the ruling on me accepting this gift? Knowing that one of the teachers moved into a new house before me and they did not give him anything like this.
The Shaykh:
There is no harm in taking from your teacher colleagues, because this involves no suspicion or wrongdoing. Rather, it is the students from whom you do not take gifts. Because that involves the suspicion that you will pass some and fail others. As for the colleagues, there is nothing wrong with it, if Allah wills. Even if they did not give your first colleague something like this. Yes.
The questioner:
He is a school principal, what is the ruling?
The Shaykh:
No, the school principal does not take from the teachers, because he is responsible for them, because he is responsible for them. So if they give him something, this becomes a bribe. He will be biased toward them and not consider the one who did not give him anything; he will not consider him, and he will develop a preference for them. So the principal does not take, and the teacher does not take from the students. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم الهدية التي تقدم للمدير بمناسبة انتقاله لسكن جديد؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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