ہدیہ اور اس کی شرعی حیثیت

Abstract

Islam is the religion of peace, harmony, love, and brotherhood. It encourages the passions of love, unity, and brotherhood in society. That’s why Islam orders for all those things which bring brotherhood and love among people and discourages all those things/acts which create hatred, envy, animosity, and dishonor among people. Among the things/acts which cause love and brotherhood, one is the exchange of gifts. But sometimes the gifts are used as bribes. And bribe is such an evil that it causes not only the anger of Almighty Allah but it is poisonous for the cause of nation and state.

 When bribe spreads in a society it makes its foundations weak and sabotages the entire nation. Hence it results in cruelty, injustice, breach of law, rampage, rupture, inferiority complex, depuration, and murder of merits. That is why Holy Prophet (PBUH) cursed the embracer, corrupt, and their agent. Thus is necessary to critically study the Islamic education about gifts and to examine the sources which cause bribes. This paper critically evaluates the importance of gifts in Islam, their various forms, and when does gifts turn to be bribes.