What is the ruling on interceding for a person for a job in exchange for money?
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The questioner : Your Eminence, what is the ruling on interceding for another person to get them registered for a job and taking a sum of money for it?
The Shaykh : It is not permissible. Interceding for a person to get them a job by taking money is not permissible, because we know that the one who takes the money will bribe the officials. We hear that he takes ten thousand or twenty thousand or something like that and bribes the officials. Bribery is known to be forbidden, indeed it is among the major sins.
The questioner : Three thousand.
The Shaykh : Three thousand, not ten thousand. He takes a taxi for two riyals to the office, so he does not get tired. I mean, if his efforts were valued, they would not amount to five hundred riyals.
The questioner : He does not bribe the officials, but he has influence with the officials?
The Shaykh : If he has influence, it is not permissible, because influence is a spiritual matter; he has not lost anything.
The questioner : Even if he took money.
The Shaykh : Absolutely not. As long as he has influence, he does not want money. The influence is with them beforehand.
The Shaykh : It is not permissible. Interceding for a person to get them a job by taking money is not permissible, because we know that the one who takes the money will bribe the officials. We hear that he takes ten thousand or twenty thousand or something like that and bribes the officials. Bribery is known to be forbidden, indeed it is among the major sins.
The questioner : Three thousand.
The Shaykh : Three thousand, not ten thousand. He takes a taxi for two riyals to the office, so he does not get tired. I mean, if his efforts were valued, they would not amount to five hundred riyals.
The questioner : He does not bribe the officials, but he has influence with the officials?
The Shaykh : If he has influence, it is not permissible, because influence is a spiritual matter; he has not lost anything.
The questioner : Even if he took money.
The Shaykh : Absolutely not. As long as he has influence, he does not want money. The influence is with them beforehand.