The Sin of a Teacher Who Turns a Blind Eye to Cheating in Exams
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Question:
A questioner asks Your Eminence: Does a teacher sin when he supervises students during exams and overlooks cheating?
Answer:
Yes, he sins if he leaves them to cheat, for he has accepted the cheating, and this is a sin and a betrayal. He is required to control them. This is in their interest; leaving them to cheat is a harm to them. What harm is there in controlling them? This is in their interest. This is also a trust in his charge; he discharges the trust by controlling them. Yes.
A questioner asks Your Eminence: Does a teacher sin when he supervises students during exams and overlooks cheating?
Answer:
Yes, he sins if he leaves them to cheat, for he has accepted the cheating, and this is a sin and a betrayal. He is required to control them. This is in their interest; leaving them to cheat is a harm to them. What harm is there in controlling them? This is in their interest. This is also a trust in his charge; he discharges the trust by controlling them. Yes.
Source
75-لقاءات مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 09-5-2-1433 — archive.org (1:07:40)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.