What is the ruling on taking a retirement pension percentage higher than what is due through “wasta” (mediation/nepotism) to cover one’s needs, knowing that a lower percentage would affect the repayment of debts and family obligations?
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It is permissible to intercede (use Wasitah) if it does not involve deception, trickery, or bribery, and if it is merely a matter of influence to convince officials to increase an entitlement. However, if the intercession is a bribe, trickery, deception, or for the purpose of attaining something to which one is not entitled, then it is not permissible, due to Allah's saying: "Whoever intercedes with a good intercession will have a share from it, and whoever intercedes with a bad intercession will have a portion from it. And Allah is over all things a Maintainer." (An-Nisa:85).
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