Bribery and sodomy

Question

Question: What is the definition of a bribe? Which explicit verse is there in the Noble Qur’an against bribery, and where is it? (2) Which explicit verse is there in the Noble Qur’an against sodomy, and where is it?

Answer

(1) If some work is the obligation (wajib) of a person and he then takes payment for it, that is a bribe. For example, the work assigned to employees of the court and the police, or to employees of the post office: if they take payment for it from the public and do not do it without payment, that is a bribe.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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