Is the accountant who disburses sums that he knows are bribes, recorded as expenses on projects, sinful, given his inability to prevent it, and is he thereby considered to have entered the circle of bribery?
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One does not sin by paying a bribe if he does not know whether it is for establishing falsehood or nullifying truth. And what a person pays to attain a right or repel an injustice is not considered a bribe.
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