What is the ruling on paying one thousand riyals monthly for a year to a person who has the ability to employ me?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: A person has the ability to employ others, but he has a condition, which is that I pay him one thousand riyals every month for a year. What is the ruling on this action?
Answer:
This is a bribe. If the one who says, "I will take the amount from you and employ you," is an official, meaning a manager who has these jobs, then this is a clear bribe; this is a clear bribe. And if he does not have the employment authority, but he seeks it and goes to the employee and intercedes for him, then this is between two things: either he is a partner with the employee and they share the bribe, or this is good intercession on his part. And it is not permissible to take compensation for intercession.
The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Bulugh al-Maram 7:77 Because good intercession is kindness and accommodation toward people; it is sought for the reward, and nothing from the matters of this world is taken for it. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: A person has the ability to employ others, but he has a condition, which is that I pay him one thousand riyals every month for a year. What is the ruling on this action?
Answer:
This is a bribe. If the one who says, "I will take the amount from you and employ you," is an official, meaning a manager who has these jobs, then this is a clear bribe; this is a clear bribe. And if he does not have the employment authority, but he seeks it and goes to the employee and intercedes for him, then this is between two things: either he is a partner with the employee and they share the bribe, or this is good intercession on his part. And it is not permissible to take compensation for intercession.
The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Whoever intercedes for his brother and that one gives him a gift for that (intercession) which he accepts, he has engaged in one of the most terrible types of Riba (undeserving increase in something).
من شفع لأخيه شفاعة فأهدى إليه هدية فقد أتى بابا عظيما من الربا؛
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم دفع ألف ريال شهريًا لمدة عام لشخص ما لديه القدرة على توظيفي؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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