The Ruling on Inflating Students' Grades
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Your Eminence! Regarding the practice of inflating students' grades, is this in the category of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) befriending certain groups of people with camels?
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No, this is betrayal. Befriending a student means treating him with kindness, benevolence, encouraging gifts, and the like. But giving him grades he does not deserve is betrayal and injustice to the other students. If this door were opened, everyone would give students one hundred percent. Why, man?He said: We befriend them.
Because the matter has another side: the student on one side, and the rest of the students on the other. If you give him, for example, one hundred when he deserves fifty, and his companion deserves eighty, it means: that you have wronged the second one, placing this one before him although he is lower in grades. Perhaps what you did?The questioner: It happens, Shaykh! The Shaykh: It happens. Look at the one who passed due to this befriending; make him take the exam again and tell him: Go back and retake the exam. If it is for a certificate, that is one thing; but if it is not for a certificate, it is easier, Allah willing. Let him proceed, and do not befriend him in this manner today.
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No, this is betrayal. Befriending a student means treating him with kindness, benevolence, encouraging gifts, and the like. But giving him grades he does not deserve is betrayal and injustice to the other students. If this door were opened, everyone would give students one hundred percent. Why, man?He said: We befriend them.
Because the matter has another side: the student on one side, and the rest of the students on the other. If you give him, for example, one hundred when he deserves fifty, and his companion deserves eighty, it means: that you have wronged the second one, placing this one before him although he is lower in grades. Perhaps what you did?The questioner: It happens, Shaykh! The Shaykh: It happens. Look at the one who passed due to this befriending; make him take the exam again and tell him: Go back and retake the exam. If it is for a certificate, that is one thing; but if it is not for a certificate, it is easier, Allah willing. Let him proceed, and do not befriend him in this manner today.