Bribery and the Need to Deal with it

Abstract

Bribery is one of the general crimes and has two parties; namely a "bribe giver" and a "bribe taker". Bribe
is what a bribe giver gives a bribe taker, in order for the bribe taker to act in favor of the bribe giver while
the bribe giver has no legal right for that. According to verbal evidence, bribes are not limited to judicial
cases, but may extend to non-judicial cases as well. Bribery is one of the oldest crimes in the penal history
of human, dating back to the time of the formation of the first states and the bureaucratic structure in the
world. This crime has also been considered in the criminal laws of the contemporary world. The
international conventions on combating administrative corruption confirm this claim. Bribery has
become a major global issue, and has been the subject of many global conferences, political gatherings,
and statesmen’s speeches. As one of the religiously forbidden businesses in Islamic Jurisprudence,
bribery is considered to be an illegitimate and denied action from the point of view of the Quran,
Tradition and Consensus.