Is it permissible to appease students by increasing their grades?
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The questioner : Your Eminence, regarding appeasing students by increasing their grades, is this in the category of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) appeasing some people with camels?
The Shaykh : No, this is betrayal. This is betrayal. Appeasing a student means treating him with kindness, generosity, and encouraging gifts, and the like. But giving him grades he does not deserve is betrayal and injustice to the other students. If we opened this door, everyone would give the students one hundred percent. Why, man? He says, "I am appeasing them." Do you understand? Yes, because the matter has another party besides the student. Who is the other party? The rest of the students. If you give him, for example, one hundred when he deserves fifty, and his companion deserves eighty, it means you have wronged the second one by placing this one before him while he is below him in grades, perhaps what you did.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : Look, the one who passed due to this appeasement, appease him a second time and say, "Go back and retake the exam," whether it is a final exam or not. If Allah wills, it is easier to let him proceed after today. Do not appease him in this manner. Yes.
The questioner : Your Eminence, may Allah prolong your life in His obedience.
The Shaykh : Ameen
The Shaykh : No, this is betrayal. This is betrayal. Appeasing a student means treating him with kindness, generosity, and encouraging gifts, and the like. But giving him grades he does not deserve is betrayal and injustice to the other students. If we opened this door, everyone would give the students one hundred percent. Why, man? He says, "I am appeasing them." Do you understand? Yes, because the matter has another party besides the student. Who is the other party? The rest of the students. If you give him, for example, one hundred when he deserves fifty, and his companion deserves eighty, it means you have wronged the second one by placing this one before him while he is below him in grades, perhaps what you did.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : Look, the one who passed due to this appeasement, appease him a second time and say, "Go back and retake the exam," whether it is a final exam or not. If Allah wills, it is easier to let him proceed after today. Do not appease him in this manner. Yes.
The questioner : Your Eminence, may Allah prolong your life in His obedience.
The Shaykh : Ameen