What is the ruling on what is called remedial classes, and their bad exploitation, where the teachers give them a portion of the exam questions without authorization?
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The questioner : Your Eminence, may Allah forgive us and you: There is a method in schools for explaining the curriculum before the final exam, which takes place about a month before it, and a specific amount of money is charged to the student to study with it. This is intended as school remedial instruction, but in recent years, the meaning of remedial classes has become "pay and you will pass." Most remedial class students pass because the teacher gives them a portion of the exam questions without authorization. For example, if he gives the general students thirty questions, he removes half of them for the remedial class students. If he gives the general students four essay questions, he gives the remedial class students only one. Then, in the end, he threatens the remedial class students with a deduction of two points, for example, if they inform those who did not register for remedial classes about this information. What is your guidance for these teachers? And is it permissible for someone who did not register and did not pay to take the notebook from one of the students after the remedial classes end? May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment.
It is known that the Ministry of Education strictly prohibits these remedial classes. Based on this, it is obligatory for anyone who knows about a teacher who teaches students remedial classes to report him, and it is not permissible for him to remain silent, because this is betrayal and rebellion against the orders of the rulers. So I say to those who do what you mentioned that they are, in reality, violating the orders of their rulers, and thereby they are disobedient to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and they are traitors because they teach these students and then inform them of the questions that will be set. Perhaps they will overlook their mistake in answering, as you mentioned in the question that the correct title for such a situation is "pay and you will pass." So I warn these people that what they have done is betrayal and disobedience to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and the money they have earned from it is haram (forbidden) for them. We ask Allah for guidance for us and for them. This is regarding these violators. As for the one who knows about their situation, it is obligatory for him to report them and not remain silent.
The questioner : Okay, Shaykh, their situation is official and announced by the school administration.
The Shaykh : I say, if the school administration has something different from what we know, let them clarify it, meaning that they are licensed to teach them remedial classes.
Do you have a question? Please go ahead.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment.
It is known that the Ministry of Education strictly prohibits these remedial classes. Based on this, it is obligatory for anyone who knows about a teacher who teaches students remedial classes to report him, and it is not permissible for him to remain silent, because this is betrayal and rebellion against the orders of the rulers. So I say to those who do what you mentioned that they are, in reality, violating the orders of their rulers, and thereby they are disobedient to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and they are traitors because they teach these students and then inform them of the questions that will be set. Perhaps they will overlook their mistake in answering, as you mentioned in the question that the correct title for such a situation is "pay and you will pass." So I warn these people that what they have done is betrayal and disobedience to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and the money they have earned from it is haram (forbidden) for them. We ask Allah for guidance for us and for them. This is regarding these violators. As for the one who knows about their situation, it is obligatory for him to report them and not remain silent.
The questioner : Okay, Shaykh, their situation is official and announced by the school administration.
The Shaykh : I say, if the school administration has something different from what we know, let them clarify it, meaning that they are licensed to teach them remedial classes.
Do you have a question? Please go ahead.