What is the ruling on purchasing fictitious employment contracts for employees' wives in order to obtain leave from work in Egypt to work in the Gulf, knowing that not obtaining this leave may lead to missing out on job opportunities abroad?
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Your going out to work outside your country is a legitimate endeavor, but the means used—forgery, lying, corruption, and violating work conditions—are not legitimate. What is obligatory is to take another permissible path for travel and work.
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