الرَّشوَة
BRIBERY
الرَّشوَةِ / Bribery
1ـ رسولُ اللهِِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ): إيّاكُم والرّشوَةَ فإنّها مَحضُ الكُفرِ ، ولا يَشُمُّ صاحِبُ الرّشوةِ رِيحَ الجَنَّةِ.
1– The Prophet (SAWA) said, 'Beware of bribery for verily it is sheer infidelity, and the briber will not even smell the fragrance of Paradise.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 104, p. 274, no. 12]
2ـ رسولُ اللهِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ): لَعَنَ اللّهُ الراشيَ والمُرتَشِيَ والرائشَ الذي يَمشِي بَينَهُما.
2– The Prophet (SAWA) said, 'Allah's curse is on the briber, the bribed, and the agent between them.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 1508]
الرَّشوَة
BRIBERY
3ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): إنّما أهلَكَ مَن كانَ قَبلَكُم أنَّهُم مَنَعُوا الناسَ الحَقَّ فاشتَرَوهُ ، وأخَذُوهُم بالباطِلِ فاقتَدَوهُ.
3– Imam Ali (AS) said, 'The ruin of your predecessors lay in the fact that they deprived people of their rights and subsequently resorted to buying them back, and they handled people using unethical means, which they followed.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Letter 79]
4ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): وقد عَلِمتُم أ نَّهُ لا يَنبَغِي أن يكونَ الوالِي على الفُرُوجِ والدِّماءِ والمَغانِمِ والأحكامِ وإمامَةِ المسلمينَ البَخِيلُ ... ولا المُرتَشِي في الحُكمِ فَيَذهَبَ بالحُقوقِ،ويَقِفَ بِها دُونَ المَقاطِعِ.
4– Imam Ali (AS) said, 'You know full well that he who is in charge of honour, people's lives, war booty, legal commandments and the leadership of the Muslims must not be a miser… nor should he accept bribes whilst governing for he would forfeit their rights, and base his rulings upon them
[the bribes] rather than proper judgment.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 131]
5ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ) ـ في قولِهِ تعالى: «أَكّالُونَ للسُّحْتِ»ـ: هُو الرَّجُلُ يَقضِي لأخِيهِ الحاجَةَ ثُمّ يَقبَلُ هَدِيَّتَهُ.
5– Imam Ali (AS) said about Allah's verse in the Qur'an: "eaters of the unlawful"385, 'This refers to the man who fulfils a need for a fellow brother and then accepts a gift from him.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 104, p. 273, no. 5]
6ـ الإمامُ الصّادقُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): الرُّشى في الحُكمِ هُو الكُفرُ باللّهِ .
6– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, 'Accepting bribes as a judge or ruler is tantamount to disbelief in Allah.’
[al-Kafi, v. 7, p. 409, no. 2]