The ruling on an employee taking an increase in salary if it is intended to influence him

The questioner : May Allah reward you. If, for example, he fears that Zayd, in his salary, that the one in authority increased his salary above that of others to have an influence over him with this money, because he knows that if he were given the money directly like that, he would not accept it and would not be pleased to take it, so he makes it under the guise of his job, for example, I say for example, sometimes, meaning this matter may be hypothetical. It may be that the salary of a specific person is increased, not for anything in his work; his wealth is certainly sufficient, but his salary is increased so that, for example, the hand from above, or so that this money influences him with this guardian, the one in authority. Is it permissible for him to take it? Because he knows that if he were given the money directly like that, he would not accept it, so he makes it under the guise of the job for which he receives the salary.

The Shaykh : It is not permissible.

The questioner : It is not permissible for him to take it.

The Shaykh : No, and it is not permissible for the one in authority to increase it for him.

The questioner : If he suspects, with a suspicion.

The Shaykh : The milk does not come. Perhaps what comes will become clear.