What is your opinion if a student in an examination hall sees another student cheating and copying answers from an external paper, and he informs the supervising teacher? Is his action considered forbidding what is wrong, or what?

The questioner : The honorable Shaykh (may Allah preserve him) says:The questioner : What is your opinion if a student in an examination hall sees another student cheating and copying answers

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The questioner : another student cheating and copying answers from an external paper, and he informs the supervising teacher? Is his action considered forbidding what is wrong, or what? And if someone argues with him by saying: and the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): the hadith regarding the permissibility of cheating, what should be said to him? And is there a contradiction between the verse and the hadith with the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): We ask you to clarify the truth and make it clear, especially since this happens frequently?

The Shaykh : I say that cheating in an examination is not permissible, and it is sufficient to know its ruling by naming it cheating. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) said: The test and success in it lead to important matters. First, it leads to salary, rank, leadership, and pioneering, and many other things. If a person succeeds through cheating, it means he is not qualified for these things that result from success. Thus, he harms himself and harms others. For this reason, I stop at the permissibility of the salary for the one who succeeded in the certificate through cheating, because the salary is based on what? On a truthful certificate, not a forged one. So cheating in an examination is forbidden, and there is no doubt in it. But some people say that cheating in the English subject is permissible. Yes, it appears that he found it difficult, and when he found it difficult, he said that cheating in it is permissible. This is a mistake. The English subject and other subjects, as long as they are prescribed, one must master them, and it is not permissible for him to cheat in them.
As for the one who sees a student cheating, or sees a supervisor giving hints to this student, it is obligatory for him to inform those in charge of him, and this is necessary. This is because this falls under the category of advice. Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, said:
As for his saying that informing the student of the answer falls under the category of the saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He: and the category of the saying of the Messenger: This is most likely a frivolous argument, because everyone knows that Allah did not intend that, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not intend that. If we opened the door based on this frivolous argument, there would be no benefit in supervision. The supervisor would enter from the first day saying, “Come, may Allah reward you with good. This is the question paper. Answer the first question,” and he would write, “Answer the second question,” and he would write from whoever says that. If a supervisor became naive and the student asked him about a question and he answered him, then said, “I answered because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) obligated a person, when asked about knowledge, to teach it,” then the school principal would have to dismiss this supervisor. Dismiss him, meaning from supervision, not from the job, and not let him supervise students. The matter is a trust and a religion. Enabling students to cheat is not cheating only for them; it is cheating for them and for the administration, the education administration, the Ministry of Education, and the entire ummah (the Muslim community), because the graduates from it are not ones who have knowledge; their knowledge is only in cards they carry. For this reason, you find the student who cheats is very eager to avoid being a teacher. Why? Because he knows that he has no knowledge, and if he were a teacher, he would be a failure. So beware, my young brothers, of following this bad path. Let a person rely on Allah, the Exalted, and let him strive for what benefits him. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: -May Allah have mercy on you- .