The word "corruption" means "law", "leib" and "to catch fish by injustice", and its examples in the Arabic dictionary are "fasd" and "mafosid".

The English equivalent of corruption is" corruption" which means "broken" and "to break" in Persian. Corruption is also said to come from the Latin word "rumpere" and means "to break". David Gigold defined corruption as the misuse of public resources by public officials for private gain.

George Santorius - administrative corruption is the unlawful misuse of public power for private ends.

Hungtington is convinced that corruption is the behavior of public officials, abusing their official position to circumvent state laws for personal interests.

Tonzi says that corruption is the abuse of state laws under the influence of personal interests or family ties.

According to the World Bank and Corruption Transparency International's definition, it is the abuse of government orders for personal interests.

Al-Munjad Culture says corruption comes from the infinitive of bribe, meaning "to bribe."

In Anguilla law, bribery is the giving or offering of any reward or benefit to a member or administrator, of a general department for performing work related to his or her assigned duties.

On bribery, Rose Ockerman says, "Bribery is the essence of financial corruption, and there are many equivalents for the term, such as payment, gift, bribe, payment of a debt, payment for silence, payment for speed, etc. Generally, the bribe giver gives a bribe to reduce the amount of funds or reduce the sentence.

Another system called the unity system of bribery is found in Denmark, Italy, Lebanon and Egypt. It is based on the fact that here only one offense can be prosecuted as an accessory to the crime by the employee and the bribe giver or the person involved in the bribe regardless of the circumstances.

In the book of the Qur'an, it is written in the 188th ayat of Surah Baqarah: "Do not take each other's property unjustly and do not open a case for discussion and judgment, and do not take people's property when you know it is not just.

Researcher Hilly says: "Bribery is forbidden and the bribe-giver has not sinned if he reaches the truth in doing so, and then the recipient of the bribe is obliged to return it to the owner, and if it is spent before it reaches the owner, the recipient will be a surety against the giver".

Corruption is a dangerous economic and legal phenomenon whose destructive impact on the economic, political and social system of society cannot be overemphasized.

The Hammurobi Code, written some two to three thousand years B.C. and one of the oldest modern human laws, recognizes corruption as a crime against the country and provides for the death penalty for its commission.

The great Abulqosim Firdavsi, in his epic masterpiece called "Shahnameh", tells of the execution of a Chinese rich man named Mikotura by Bahromi Chubin, who once took a thousand dinars from a governor to prevent the army from attacking him. During the era of the Qojariya and Pahlavi government, corruption was common in Iran, to the point that cases of it occurred in international relations as well. Also, D. Comte in his travel notes titled "Three Years in Iran" writes that corruption is considered one of the evils rooted in Iran, which cannot be eradicated because it involves everyone from the Shah to the last official.

translated Ismoilov R.