Is the salary considered permissible or impermissible if the employee continues in their job after repenting from bribery, based on a previous fatwa stating that the permissibility of the salary is not linked to bribery, and that repentance requires abandoning the job?
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Bribery is Islamically forbidden and considered among the major sins. It is defined as giving something to invalidate a right or establish a falsehood. However, what is given to establish a right or invalidate a falsehood is not considered a bribe on the part of the giver, though it is considered a bribe on the part of the receiver. The salary of one who repents from paying a forbidden bribe to obtain a job is permissible if he performs his work as required, and he is not obliged to leave the job.
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