Students giving
    gifts to teachers
Question

                Some of the students give gifts to their
    teachers on special occasions. Some of them are her current students, but some are
    students who she is not teaching now but may teach in the coming years. Others are
    students that she can never teach because they have already graduated. What is the ruling
    on these cases?
Praise be to Allah.We put this question to Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen,
    may Allaah preserve him, who replied as follows:
There is nothing wrong with the third case, but the other two are not
    permissible, even if it is a gift for her giving birth etc, because this gift could be
    seen as an attempt to soften the teacher’s heart (i.e., a bribe).