Question
Reference number: 723012 | Miscellaneous | Oct. 20, 2020
Is it allowed to do assignments for students throughout e-learning period and get paid?
Answer
Praise Be to Allah and Peace Be Upon His Messenger.
To do assignments for students, to write research papers instead of them, to do exams, to write proposals or theses so as to get paid have become very common these days. This phenomenon (cheating) has spread. It is awful. Doing these things produces graduates who know nothing about their fields of specialization. For instance, if you do this instead of a medicine student, the result will be disastrous as this future doctor may not be able to treat patients properly. If you do this instead of an engineer, such an engineer may fail to design a building which may fall apart. Cheating has terrible consequences. If you think that I exaggerate, think about cheating in simpler things which is considered haram. Cheating while selling groceries is haram, so what about education?
To conclude, what you do is haram as it is a kind of deception.