He says, may Allah preserve you: What is riba al-shafa'ah vs bribery?
Bribery is money given to an employee in exchange.
A benefit the person is entitled to from that entity.
Or to ward off harm from him that this entity seeks to impose.
So this is an employee there, given money either to gain a benefit.
Or to avoid something required of him by this company or this entity.
A government employee.
Then someone comes and pays him to be hired in this agency.
That's bribery.
As for riba al-shafa'ah, it is when...
A person intercedes through influence, intercession, and status.
To bring benefit or avert harm for someone else.
Then he takes something for it, whether it was stipulated
from the outset or initially, or not. Yes.