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Is it permissible to pay money to government employees who demand it to process necessary transactions, knowing that refusing to pay will lead to these transactions being delayed?

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The bribe through which a person obtains his right or repels an injustice is permissible according to the majority of scholars if the injustice cannot be repelled without it. The sin, in this case, falls upon the recipient of the bribe.

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