Charity (Zakaah & Sadaqah)

[UmmOmar]

Charity (Zakaah & Sadaqah)



A Sister Who Works but Her Rich Father Does Not Permit Her to Give Zakaah (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=14162&postcount=2) - Shaykh Alee Muhammad Naasir al-Faaqihee


A Muslim Father Who Prays but Does Not Pay Zakaah on His Haraam Earnings (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=14187&postcount=3)- Shaykh 'Abdur-Rahmaan Al-Ajlaan


A Sister Seeking Her Husband's Permission to Give Charity and His Reward for It (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=14211&postcount=4)- Shaykh 'Abdur-Rahmaan Al-Ajlaan


Paying Zakaat on Merchandise Meant for Sale (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=14245&postcount=5) - Shaykh Abdullah Al Ghuydaan


Paying Zakaat on Profit from Sale of Unproductive Land (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=14370&postcount=6)- Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan


Establishing a Baytul-Maal (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=18821&postcount=7)- Shaykh Fahad Ibn Sulaymaan Al-Fuhayd


Spending the Charity Money of One Masjid On Another Masjid (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=18823&postcount=8)- Shaykh Abdullaah al-Ghudyaan


Organizing a Charitable Group to Assist Poor Single Sisters in the Community - (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=18855&postcount=9) Shaykh Wasiullaah al-Abbas


Delaying the Zakaah to Ramadhaan - (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=29019&postcount=10) Shaykh Ali ibn Abdur-Rahmaan Al-Hudhayfi


Promising to Donate and Then Forgetting - (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=29158&postcount=11) Shaykh Abdullaah Al-Jarboo


Permissibility of Giving Zakaah to a Masjid - (http://www.albaseerah.org/forum/showpost.php?p=29159&postcount=12) Shaykh Abdullaah Al-Jarboo

[Al 3ilmu noor]

Question: I am a female engineer working in a factory, but my father who is a rich man does not allow me to do anything, even so that I am not allowed to pay zakaat. He only allows me to buy food and clothes. Is this correct? What should I do in this situation?

Answer: The Shaykh حفظه الله تعالى said in answer to this question, that firstly we must know that to obey the father is obligatory. However, to obey in disobedience to Allaah سبحانه و تعالى is not permissible. So this woman should not obey her father in him preventing her from paying the zakaat. Rather she has to pay the zakaat and the zakaat is a pillar of Islaam so she must do it. However, she should do it in a way that does not anger her father. Rather, she should do it in a way that is better, in a good manner. She should speak to him in a manner that is good and try to convince him from one angle, or to please him from one angle and at the same time do what she has to do, and do that which is obligatory upon her in Islaam.

Answered by: Shaykh Alee Muhammad Naasir al-Faaqihee

Title of Lecture: That which is obligatory upon the Muslims

Date of the Lecture: May 7th, 2005

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[ummkulthoom]

Question: My father is Muslim and he prays but he refuses to give his money to pay the annual Zakaah over what he possesses. The majority of the money that my father has, is from the haraam (selling of alcohol, pork and Ribaa), so may he pay the Zakaah even if his goods are from the haraam?

Answer: It is upon the Muslim to stay as far away as possible from impermissible means and it is upon him to carefully select the halaal rizq ( رزق - provision), the permissible forms of rizq. The Messenger of Allaah صلى الله عليه و سلم said: "A soul will not taste death until it finishes or completes all of its provision, all of its rizq. So a person may hurry and take his provision from what is impermissible and another may have patience and have taqwaa and fear Allaah سبحانه و تعالى and it will come to him in any case from a permissible income". [1].

Concerning zakaah, it is the partner or the brother of salaah. And whoever refuses to pay the zakaah is to be asked to make tawbah or to be killed depending on the reason why he is not giving zakaah. He is to be killed as a hadd ( حدّ - the legal punishment) or he is to be killed as a kaafir (as a disbeliever) depending on why he is not paying the zakaah. And he is supposed to pay zakaah whether it is from an impermissible means of money or it is permissible. And the difference is that if he pays his zakaah from a permissible form of provision then he is rewarded for it in the life of this world as well as the next. However, if he pays zakaah from a means that is not permissible then it is taken from him but he is prevented from getting any reward in the Afterlife.

Answered by: Shaykh 'Abdur-Rahmaan Al-Ajlaan

Title of Lecture: Brotherhood and Q&A Session

Date of the Lecture: February 10th 2007

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[1] Reported in Sunan Ibn Maajah 2/725 (#2144) with the following wording. Shaykh al-Albaani رحمه الله says with a Saheeh sanad.

[ummkulthoom]

Question: If a sister gives charity from her own money, would it still count in reward for her husband and would it be encouraged for her to seek his permission in this aspect as well?

Answer: The husband is rewarded if he helps her in doing so and encourages her to do so and he is also rewarded in all good actions that he helps her or encourages her to do based upon the saying of Allaah سبحانه و تعالى

وَتَعَاوَنُواْ عَلَى الْبرِّ وَالتَّقْوَى وَلاَ تَعَاوَنُواْ عَلَى الإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ
{Help you one another in Al-Birr and At-Taqwaa (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and transgression.} [al-Maa'idah 5:2]

The husband's permission is not needed if the sadaqah (charity) that she is giving is from her own money. She does not need his permission because the Messenger of Allaah صلى الله عليه و سلم, when he ordered the women to give sadaqah they took from their jewellery and gave sadaqah without asking their husbands and Bilaal رضي الله عنه gathered it and gave it to the Messenger of Allaah صلى الله عليه و سلم who then used it.


Answered by: Shaykh 'Abdur-Rahmaan Al-Ajlaan

Title of Lecture: Brotherhood and Q&A Session

Date of the Lecture: February 10th 2007

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[UmmQasim]

Question: I have a small business, Maashaa-Allaah, and just read that it is obligatory to pay zakaat on merchandise which is meant for sale. What are the conditions for paying zakaat on this type of wealth; and how does one determine the zakaat?

Answer: Allaah سبحانه وتعالى says:

إِنَّ عِدَّةَ الشُّهُورِ عِندَ اللّهِ اثْنَا عَشَرَ شَهْراً فِي كِتَابِ اللّهِ يَوْمَ خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَات وَالأَرْضَ
{Verily, the number of months with Allaah is twelve months (in a year), so was it ordained by Allaah
on the Day when He created the heavens and the earth...} [at-Tawbah 9:36]

When determining whether it is obligatory to pay zakaat on gold, silver or merchandise, a year based on 12 lunar months and not financial months is used. If the businessman purchases goods, then the year starts from the time he is in possession of the goods and not the time that he bought the goods. If he is in possession of it for 12 complete lunar months then zakaat must be extracted.

If he has gold, money or merchandise for example, it must be evaluated or assessed (to determine the value); for all of it one fortieth (1/40) is due. For example, if dealing with money and you have one thousand riyals (SR1,000) at the end of twelve (12) lunar months then you pay twenty-five riyals (SR25); if you have one thousand dollars ($1,000) you pay twenty-five dollars ($25) and this is the way you calculate it.


Answered by: Shaykh Abdullah Al Ghuydaan

Title of lecture: Question and answer session

Date of lecture: 10 November 2007

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[Sakinah]

Question: I purchased land for investment and for three years it did not produce anything, nor was there any development on it, nor profit from it. Now I have sold the land with 200,000 dollars profit so do I have to pay the zakah for three years or just one year or should I wait for one year to pay the zakah and how much would that be?

Answer: My brother, this is an issue that concerns your intention. As long as you intended to buy it for business purposes then this is what it is for (business). So at the head of every year that you have owned it you estimate its value and give zakaat based on its value at the head of each year. This is because you intended it for business purposes with the intention of selling it, so it falls under the category of business. So it is obligatory upon you to pay zakaat for each year, you determine the value of the land each year and calculate the zakaat due, and the last year you give zakaat for the amount you have. You use 2.5% for each 100 dinaar or riyal.

Answered by: Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan

Title of Lecture: Life of Imaam Muhammed Ibn Abdul-Wahhab

Date of the Lecture: 03-Dec-2005

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[ummkulthoom]

Question: We are a group of brothers who have established a Baytul-Maal. However we have come to know that the Khilaafah is compulsory for establishing a Baytul-Maal, or without the Khilaafah it cannot be established. Is this true?

Answer: There are certain things which are specific to the Rulers amongst the Muslims. For example, in Islaamic countries where there is a Ruler who rules over the country, he is the only one who may implement things which are specific to the Ruler.

From the authority of the Rulers of Islaamic countries is the Baytul-Maal in which is accumulated the war booty, sadaqah (charity), zakaat and the likes. They are only ones who have the authority to gather it. As for you, you can form a group e.g. a charitable association or specify an individual to organize these matters. If he knows someone who is in need, he conveys the message to his brothers in the association and gathers donations for the person.

As for you opening a Baytul-Maal in the manner you want and gathering zakaat and the likes of this and you have no Muslim country, rather, you are individuals; then I have never heard such things except in this question.

This is something the ruler has authority over. Individuals mustn’t have this authority. What we advise you, is that if you know some poor people, Inshaa Allaah gather donations and then a trustworthy brother from amongst you can convey that to them. And Allaah knows best.


Answered by: Shaykh Fahad Ibn Sulaymaan Al-Fuhayd

Title of Lecture: UIK Educational Seminar

Date of the Lecture: Saturday, September 16, 2006

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[ummkulthoom]

Question: What advice do you have for an Imaam who moved from one city where there were funds in the Masjid Account that belongs to that community, and he left that area with the funds and established a masjid in another community. Is it waajib (obligatory) upon him to return the money or give it to the Administration of the old masjid?

Answer: The Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم said: “Indeed actions are by intentions, and every person will have (the reward of) what he intended.â€� [1] If the individuals who paid the funds to this imaam when he was the imaam of the old masjid view that it belongs to the old masjid, then it is not permissible for him (the imaam) to carry it to another masjid. If he carried it then it is obligatory upon him to return it.

Answered by: Shaykh Abdullaah al-Ghudyaan

Title of Lecture: Methods to Understand & Memorize Al-Qur'aan

Date of the Lecture: January 5th, 2008

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[1] Reported in Saheeh al-Bukhaaree, The Beginning of the Revelation (بدء الوحي), Hadeeth (#1); and in Saheeh Muslim, The Book of Leadership (كتاب الإمارة), Hadeeth (#45).

[UmmOmar]

Question: There are many single sisters here in the United States who have financial problems and are unable to pay their bill and provide food and clothing for their families. Is it permissible to organize a group that will take care of these responsibilities or accept donations?

Answer: Actually this does not just pertain to women, if there are also men in the community who are in hardship and in need of money and items to survive then it is incumbent upon the Muslims to cater to the needs of these people. For example an account can be set up into which is put donations, zakaat etc. to be used to help these needy and poor people. As mentioned in the Qur’aan the sadaqah and zakaat are to be given to various groups of people which include the poor. If you are not in a Muslim country where there is no Bayt-ul-Maal for the Muslims then it is incumbent upon the righteous amongst you and those upon whom Allaah سبحانه و تعالى has bestowed wealth, to come together so that they can gather the donations, zakaat etc. in order to help these people. There is no doubt this is from the good and righteous actions, and Allaah سبحانه و تعالى loves those who spend from their money like He سبحانه و تعالى says in surah al-Baqarah:

مَّثَلُ الَّذِينَ يُنفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُمْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللّهِ كَمَثَلِ حَبَّةٍ أَنبَتَتْ سَبْعَ سَنَابِلَ فِي كُلِّ سُنبُلَةٍ مِّئَةُ حَبَّةٍ
{The likeness of those who spend their wealth in the way of Allâh, is as the likeness of a grain (of corn);
it grows seven ears, and each ear has a hundred grains…} [Al-Baqarah 2:261]


There is no doubt that this is a good, recommended effort. Rather at times it becomes obligatory upon the Muslims to come together to create the like of these things to assist and help ease the hardship of these people.


Answered by: Shaykh Wasiullaah al-Abbas حفظه الله

Title of Lecture: Explanation of Ad-Durrar Al-Bahiyyah of Imaam Shawkaani - The Book of Purification Class #2

Date of the Lecture: February 18th, 2006

Listen to Lecture: Click Here (http://http//www.albaseerah.org/audio/audioicfq.htm) (Class #2)

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[ummkulthoom]

Question: Every year zakaat on my gold jewellery is due in Shaabaan but I pay my zakaat in Ramadhaan hoping for much reward, is this correct? Also, is zakaat obligatory on 9 karat gold or gold-plated ornaments?

Answer: Zakaat is obligated at its time i.e. a year passes over the wealth that you have, but if it is delayed to Ramadhaan then it is considered as delayed but in any case it should suffice. He should take his zakaat out and give it to those who deserve it.

As for gold, what is considered as the nisaab (minimum amount on which zakaat is due) is 85 grams of gold and the zakaat on it is a quarter of a tenth (2.5%). He must take his zakaat out and give it to those who deserve it and if he has more than 85g of gold then he must calculate 2.5% of it and give it in zakaat.


Answered by: Shaykh Ali ibn Abdur-Rahmaan Al-Hudhayfi

Title of Lecture: Ramadhaan 1429 Question and Answer Session #2

Date answered: September 6th, 2008

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[ummkulthoom]

Question: Sometimes when our dear brothers who we love very much, pledge to donate, they forget to fulfil their promise so what is your advice to them?

Answer: Firstly, we thank these people for their good intentions and that which they wished for. Likewise, we encourage them and incite them to hasten forth to perform that which is good, just as it is said in the famous proverb “the best goodness is that which is without delay.” Therefore, when the people pledge to give charity, volunteer, make promises and make pledges, perhaps the person who is in charge of the affairs of the masjid takes these pledges and promises and begins the contract with the construction, the labourers, the carpenters etc. Then later on, if these people renege on their pledges and they fall back on that which they promised to do, perhaps different problems will take place such as the labourers will delay their work or the person may run into financial difficulties with the company and so on and so forth. Hence, we do not want any type of harm or annoyance to come by the muhsineen – those generous people who give their wealth to Allaah سبحانه وتعالى. Therefore, the people must participate and cooperate in giving their sadaqah and promising their sadaqah, but they must fulfil their promises so there will not be any problems, difficulties, or things that would happen later on. Therefore, we advise them to rush forth in fulfilling that which they are generous enough to say and promise.


Answered by: Shaykh Abdullaah Al-Jarboo حفظه الله

Title of Lecture: Building and Maintaining the Houses of Allaah

Date of the Lecture: Saturday 29th November 2008

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[ummkulthoom]

Question: Is it permissible to give zakaat for the construction of the masjid if we are in dire need of it?

Answer: Allaah سبحانه وتعالى has mentioned in the Qur’aan and likewise the people of knowledge have clarified that the zakaat should be given to those people who are in great need of it - those who are in the most dire need and the most severe situation such as the fuqaraa’ (the poor people) - those who have a very intensive need for this wealth because of their poverty.

As for giving zakaat for the building of the masjid then this is something which should not be done. However, if those who are in charge of the masjid and running the masjid are in need of it, such as the people of knowledge, the imaams, the callers to Allaah and the mu’adhdhin – then they may be given something from the zakaat. For example, if books were purchased for the poor people if they were good students of knowledge and libraries were purchased for them from which they can benefit and read then this is okay and there is no problem in doing so. But as for the actual construction of the masjid and the building of the masjid then this is something which is preferred to give from the sadaqaat (charity) and not the obligatory zakaat.

So once again, the zakaat should be given to those who have the most dire need, those who are in need of a place to live, medicine or medical treatment, food and drink and those who are in need of marriage, these things are dire necessities for these people.


Answered by: Shaykh Abdullaah Al-Jarboo حفظه الله

Title of Lecture: Building and Maintaining the Houses of Allaah

Date of the Lecture: Saturday 29th November 2008

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