Students giving gifts to teachers
Question Some of the students give gifts to their teachers on special occasions. Some of them are her current students, but some are students who she is not teaching now but may teach in the coming years. Others are students that she can never teach because they have already graduated. What is the ruling on…
Question
Some of the students give gifts to their
teachers on special occasions. Some of them are her current students, but some are
students who she is not teaching now but may teach in the coming years. Others are
students that she can never teach because they have already graduated. What is the ruling
on these cases?
teachers on special occasions. Some of them are her current students, but some are
students who she is not teaching now but may teach in the coming years. Others are
students that she can never teach because they have already graduated. What is the ruling
on these cases?
Praise be to Allah.
We put this question to Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen,
may Allaah preserve him, who replied as follows:
There is nothing wrong with the third case, but the other two are not
permissible, even if it is a gift for her giving birth etc, because this gift could be
seen as an attempt to soften the teacher’s heart (i.e., a bribe).
