Is money earned from a promotion permissible, knowing that there was limited cooperation on the exam that led to the promotion, while the questioner adheres to religious teachings and trusts in God?
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Cheating in exams is forbidden (), and one must repent from it. However, the money obtained from a job secured with a certificate involving cheating is permissible (), provided that the individual performs their work correctly, especially if their success did not depend solely on that cheating. Sheikh Ibn Baz issued a permitting the salary for someone who cheated in their certificate but then mastered their work and repented.
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