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Question 445) - How should it be given? Must you say, "This is Zakah"?
A: There is no need to expose that. one may give it in the guise of a gift as long as one intended it as Zakah, the Zakah is fulfilled. The recipient must also be of the categories we explained who are entitled to take Zakah and may not be of Banu Hashim.
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Is it allowed to pay one's Zakah to one's poor relatives? |
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Question 444) - Is it allowed to pay one's Zakah to one's poor relatives?
A: There are two kinds of relatives. One kind is by birth e.g. parents, grandparents, children and grandchildren. The other is not by birth e.g. brothers, sisters, paternal uncles and aunts, maternal uncles and aunts, and their descendants. Zakah cannot be paid to the first category. The Zakah is not fulfilled is given to any parent or grandparent or descendant of either sex.
Zakah can be given to the second category for which there is two rewards - the reward of Zakah and the reward of maintaining family ties.
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What is the ruling if the Zakah was given to one in charge of the Madrasah? |
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Question 442) - What is the ruling if the Zakah was given to one in charge of the Madrasah?
A: It is allowed if he made the supervisor his representative to spend it on the Faqir and Misin students, on condition that the supervisor makes them the owners. The Zakah is not fulfilled by simply making the food permissible for them; nor by constructing buildings of the Madrasah; nor by using it for the salaries of the teachers or other employees of the Madrasah.
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Is Zakah fulfilled if used to buy a slave and then freeing him? |
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Question 443) - Is Zakah fulfilled if used to buy a slave and then freeing him?
A: No.
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Can Zakah funds be used for shrouding or building a Masjid, Madrasah, bridge or public road? |
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Question 441) - Can Zakah funds be used for shrouding or building a Masjid, Madrasah, bridge or public road?
A: No, and if done the Zakah must be paid again. The principle in Zakah is that that one entitled must take ownership of it. There is no taking possession in the examples given.
~ al-Quduri ~ |
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