A reward from students upon their success

Question

Question: Many teachers, when the children pass at school, collect a reward (in‘am) from the children, and sometimes they even collect it beforehand. Is taking this reward permissible in any form or not?

Answer

If the students give a reward out of happiness, by way of thanks, then taking it is correct: a reward is precisely that which is given gladly. It is not the teacher’s right; compulsion is not correct. If someone does not give a reward, then reproaching him and the like, regarding him as contemptible thereafter, humiliating him, or putting less effort into him is by no means…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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