The ruling on paying money to a person to get him into a college
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, a man applied to study in a college, but he was not accepted. Then a man came to him and said, “Give me a sum of money, and I will get you in,” knowing that this man is not an official in that college. Is it permissible for this student to pay the money to that man?
Answer:
I fear that there is an agreement between him and the officials that he takes from the person in need and they share this amount. This is not permissible because it is suspicious and unclear. Perhaps they are now using brokers; the employees do not take bribes openly, but they use brokers who delay people’s work and say, “We will promise you to people on the street, or you go to them and say, ‘We will mediate for you, and give us a sum of money.’” Then they go to the employee and share the money with him, and he completes the work. So do not open this door, and it is not permissible. Either you intercede for your brother with a good intercession by which you benefit him, or you leave the matter alone. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, a man applied to study in a college, but he was not accepted. Then a man came to him and said, “Give me a sum of money, and I will get you in,” knowing that this man is not an official in that college. Is it permissible for this student to pay the money to that man?
Answer:
I fear that there is an agreement between him and the officials that he takes from the person in need and they share this amount. This is not permissible because it is suspicious and unclear. Perhaps they are now using brokers; the employees do not take bribes openly, but they use brokers who delay people’s work and say, “We will promise you to people on the street, or you go to them and say, ‘We will mediate for you, and give us a sum of money.’” Then they go to the employee and share the money with him, and he completes the work. So do not open this door, and it is not permissible. Either you intercede for your brother with a good intercession by which you benefit him, or you leave the matter alone. Yes.
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، باب الرخصة في العرايا وبيع الأصول والثمار — islamhouse.com (19:10)
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