What you earn from work outside the fixed salary or remuneration, where the rights of others are involved, is haram. You may have different interests, but if you hold someone hostage in exchange for the service you are providing, it is poison. Even after the government, organization or person pays you for a job, if you take money from any other source, under any pretext, in exchange for doing that job, there is no scope to legitimize it. Bribery or speed money – the state can legitimize it, but a disciplined religion has not said it is permissible. Haram is haram forever, always. If illegal money is mixed with legal money, the whole thing becomes haram. Food bought with haram money is poison for the body. The punishment collected with haram money makes life miserable. In other words, there is no comfort in haram.
Employees have a contract with the state, and workers have a contract with their employers. Working hours and compensation are fixed. If someone evades work and responsibilities during the contracted time, that is also illegal and unjust. Again, even after receiving the salary stipulated for the work, demanding any additional benefits from the service recipient or making the service complicated instead of simplifying it is also against the principles. The description of all that is haram is clear. Destroying someone’s rights is haram. Betraying someone’s trust is haram. Not fulfilling the assigned duties or violating the confidentiality of being nominated by the state is haram. Oppressing someone is haram. Not only is direct bribery haram, but any corruption – be it nepotism, financial transactions or negligence in the discharge of duties – is definitely wrong. Mistakes are punished in this world, but sins are punished in the hereafter. Good deeds or bad deeds – nothing goes unrewarded, unpunished.
You are the owner of providing services, but when people come to you, you do not see them, insult them or show unfair harshness – you will have to apologize. You do not directly transact illegal money, but your simplicity or indifference gives your subordinates the courage and opportunity to commit injustice in the office – you are also responsible for this. Neglecting any legitimate duty entrusted to you is a crime. Whatever the amount of bribery – every sin must be paid for. If a bribe is transacted in an office or department, its effects spread to the field level. It also turns the seed of injustice into a tree among the people. That is why both the bribe giver and the bribe taker have been held responsible in Islam. Hell has been made inevitable for them. When injustice takes root in the human brain, social order breaks down, injustice spreads everywhere and divine calamities befall the village. Due to human sins, society and the state have to fall into the pit of destruction.
Unethical money transactions or recommendations for any work mean that injustice is being committed there. This is destroying the rights of some and some are being harmed. Even if no one is directly harmed by bribery and corruption, the state will be harmed. If someone becomes a crocodile of wealth by earning money illegally in their career, it has a harmful impact on the entire service users. It accelerates social inequality. Diseases are contagious in all societies. Those who are involved in bribery and corruption will never be able to raise their children. Because very few children of inhumans become human beings. If you cannot differentiate between being educated, wealthy or powerful and being human, then there is no argument with you. There will be no peace in the world of bribe-takers and corrupt people. Because the food of those whose food is collected with the money of someone else’s sigh enters the body as poison and flows in the blood. The angels keep complaining to God, wishing for their destruction. God also takes away happiness and blessings from their lives.
Bribery and corruption must be eliminated from society by any means. Even if the corrupt person is a close relative, we must cut off ties with him. If the bribe-taker is an office boss, a colleague, or anyone in the society, we must boycott him. At least, we must make it clear through behavior that the people of this society hate and avoid corrupt people and bribe-takers. Those who do wrong cause immense harm to themselves, their families, society, and the state. They do not see this scar. They are blinded by the addiction to wealth and are blind to justice and injustice. These evil-doers must be stopped by law. At least so that the weapon of hatred against them never becomes inactive. Bribery and corruption are our national enemies. State laws must be tightened against them, and social movements must be built. I will not give bribes, I will not take bribes – let this be the New Year’s vow and conviction.
