The Discourse of the Quran in Order to Fight Bribery and its Consequent Social Harms

Bribery is among financial crimes which has been highly condemned by Holy Quran and is defined as giving authorities and non-authorities to rule in one’s favor. Quran has considered bribery as one of the biggest financial acts of corruption which could provide the basis for the collapse of societies through violation of the rights of individuals, impeding the implementation of justice and hindering economic development. This study aimed to investigate the social hames of bribery from Quran‘s point of view. This study used a documentary and descriptive-analytical method. The most important social damages of bribery were non-implementation of justice and law, lack of economic development, people's dissatisfaction and subjugation of government and expansion of illegal activities. In addition, realization of the desired economic status as described by Quran helps maintain the Quran's values and norms in the community to become religious thoughts to the common literature of society and people's lives. To this end, the Qur'an's discourse is to combat the corruptions of the bribe by a gradual approach which first began with the knowledge and introduction of society and then, through the promotion and modeling of values and culture, and the explanation of the consequences of discourse. To form any fundamental change in the society, it should be progressively planned and implemented, and radical and unplanned actions cannot have any profound and lasting effects. Therefore, Quran has chosen a progressively planned and step-by-step approach in the direction of discourse on combating bribery.