Is there any consequence for a person who swore an oath by divorce that he would not pay a bribe to complete a transaction for his brother, and can he retract his oath if doing so would enable him to avoid the unlawful?
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As long as you did not do what you swore upon—giving a bribe to this person—then there is nothing upon you. And as long as your intention with the oath was to refrain from bribery, then if you honor this person for a permissible reason, you do not break your oath by that; because intention in an oath restricts the absolute and specifies the general.
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