Aarij Anwer – Can I give Zakat to an Islamic school?

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the first word of chefs a lot of sorry about donating your cattle mal to Islamic schools very
interesting. But what I wanted to share with you all let's listen to other Shaykh says then I'm
going to translate what he said and then I'll add some of my comments in short order.
		

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			You know, the way the chef has explained it is really beautiful. And I'm going to try my best to
translate it and then add a bit of commentary to this. So the question was, is it allowed to donate
to an Islamic school or Islamic schools My dad is at Islamia in Canada from the cattlemen.
		

			The assumption here is it's totally acceptable to donate any good cause from sadaqa. Right, just
general philanthropy, because the problems that Coloma rufen saw that every good action is an act of
charity. So there is no question about that at all. The question is about the cat because the cat is
restrictive. It has eight specified categories in the Quran. The question is, is donating to an
Islamic school? Can it fall under one of those eight categories? The answer of the chef is as
follows. He says Islamic schools outside of Muslim lands, specially as our Muslim lands are the cat
eligible as they fall in the category of feasibility feasibility, scattergun number seven, out of
		

			the eight categories
		

			in the fall in the category of feasibility law, which literally translates to, in the way of Allah.
He says sheiks Allah, because Islamic schools preserve the religion of the young Muslims. He says
Jihad just like as it includes war, just like it's where the end is also include using speech to
defend Islam and preserve Islam takanobu kalama. Chaka Khan Academy is also with speech. And he
quotes the idea of the Quran to say how
		

			included in the concept of jihad is defending Islam through speech, a lot smarter says in Surah
Furqan Fela tutorial catharina which I hate whom behaved you had an Kabira so do not yield to the
disbelievers, but strive diligently against them with this or with it, and that it is referring to
the Quran according to the scores of the sere like given Kafeel he says that it here is referring to
the Quran. This is evidence the chef is using this is evidence that jihad is not just warfare, Jihad
includes defending Islam by using, you know, arguments using the Quran using speech essentially,
okay, the institutions that protect Islam are thus included in the category of jihad. And that's the
		

			category number seven. He then for further continues
		

			that the Islamic Council of most of the Muslim World League has issued a declaration on the matter.
And he says this is something that has been issued by them. And we have alluded to this declaration
many times in previous for towers. And then he makes the idea that we ask Allah to unite the Muslims
to give success to our institutions, and to give them the ability to fulfill their responsibilities
and obviously add that to that beautiful door. I mean, so that is shifts allows fatwah and some of
my little comments to explain where he's coming from.
		

			And I'm going to just add a couple of things here for the sake of bringing the argument you know,
making it whole child so we have a good understanding of the topic. As I mentioned, the cat has very
specific conditions of who that the cat can be given to. It's it's eight categories. Category number
one is in the muzzle of autofocus for the ones who are broke, while Masaki and the ones who are poor
number two will Amina Allah number three is those who are working for the for a Muslim government to
disperse zakat. Well, one more aliphatic Hello, boom done before those who are inclined to Islam,
they're Muslims, and they're, you know, new Muslims, the cat can be given to them to incline their
		

			hearts further to Islam.
		

			Well Federico number five to free slaves and to free prisoners. Well, a lot II mean number six,
those who are in debt. Even if the debt is interest bearing debt, they can be paid off from the card
so that they don't have that anymore. Wolfie sebelah number seven, in the path of God, Wabi Sabi and
the wayfaring traveler referring traveler invincible as somebody who has money but has lost access
to their money, because they're not home, they are traveling abroad to the cat can be given to them,
to make them reach their home so they can access their wealth. The idea is that this person has
temporarily become become poor. So those are the eight Catharine categories of Zakat seven one the
		

			seventh category is a feasibility and feasibility Allah in the Quran is used vast majority of time
to refer to fighting in the way of Allah. Okay. And this is something that the scholars of tafsir
and the scholars have mentioned, you know, that this extensive usage of the Quran referring to
feasibility as finding necessitates that this category of Zakat feasible is only for that purpose
and that purpose only Okay, this is the classical understanding of this, the formada him are, you
know, in consensus on this that this category is referring to those who are fighting for the cause
of Islam. And in fact they qualify these are fighters who are a loser Elmo toto we are in the
		

			voluntary fighters. They're not like you know, on the army payroll for example, they have joined the
army as volunteers, they are paid from from the the carton, man, okay. And for example, the habila
also include in this, the humble These include in this category, people who can go who are going for
Hajj because there's a little problem where a man had brought a camel and the Prophet salam, a camel
for the sake of love so it can be used in in battle. And then a woman wanted to make Hajj using the
camel, the prophet said to her, it could be half in the Hajj jeffie Sevilla, she he said to her, you
can use it to go make Hajj because Hajj is in the path of Allah. So the humbly school they allow
		

			this hedge to fund people a person's hij from the cat, many that allow that as well with obviously
certain conditions. Now, that is the classical view the view that this is restrictive to that are
modernist scholars, like the Muslim World League, the establishment council as the Association of
Muslim jurists of America imja and many, many other bodies of scholars and great Messiah for time
have made the point that this is a category that is essentially inaccessible to the Muslims,
particularly the Muslims who are living as minorities in the West, we cannot be voluntary fighters
in you know, in any capacity. Okay, so what then is left of this category? Well, jihad, the scholars
		

			of the past have restricted only to fighting. But today, our scholars have said, well, Jihad also
includes defending Islam, and then institutions that defend Islam, through speech through producing
content, and even through things such as producing students that will like the preservation of the
religion is happening through those institutions, all of that is a type of jihad and thus, these
should be included in the category of fee subsidy law, that is the the Maha Lunas are like to say in
Arabic, it also affects the scope of the argument, where the where the
		

			where the evidence lies, sort of set, okay. And this is a good position in sha Allah, and I think
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			We should try to give the cat our personal my personal take on this is ours the cat should go to as
many categories that we can give the cat to. If you find a person who's poor, who was broke, help
them, give them use the cat. If you find somebody who's in debt, help them give them the cat so they
can be out of debt. If you find somebody or some a great cause, like a good Islamic school that can
live on after you that can produce students whose identity is preserved. Their Muslim identity is
preserved because they mentor that school. That is an excellent avenue of Zakat as well. Well, Lodi,
lm Joseph McLaren for listening or salon I mean, I'm harmala and he was happy. He said I want to go