Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Lillah, Sadaqa, Zakat An Important Clarification
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What is the technical difference between the LilLah and the sadaqa?
Now, I think this is very important to clarify. Let me
explain first that there is no technical difference between them.
Because Lilla means for Allah, Zakat is for Allah. Voluntary
charity is for Allah. Any assistance you give anybody else
should be for Allah as well. So essentially, it's just saying that
this is for Allah, right? This is not something I'm doing to buy
something for myself, right? Meaning some worldly possession.
This is for reward. So it's Allah Allah, Allah sadaqa just means a
charity. Some assistance you give to others Bara, the borrower,
which means that you're voluntarily giving something to
someone to assist and help them. That's literally what that means.
So when you when you when you say that sadaqa sadaqa doesn't have to
be voluntary, that sadaqa nephila is voluntary. So sadaqa is of two
types. So the Khawaja and nephila, so the Khawaja is zakat, or an
oath or a vow or something like that, which you have to give, but
at the end of the day, sadaqa itself is just assisting somebody
else in the car to assist somebody else's Zakat is also a sadaqa.
Right? Now,
what socially we've done with this is that Zakat is a cat, everybody
knows what the cat is, that's the 1/48 of your wealth 2.5% of your
wealth Lilla generally people take that as money for the masjid, you
know, for the running of the machine, a building of a machine
Lilla. Right. And sadaqa is where the vagueness comes about. Right.
That's why I'm encouraging as many matches as possible that you
should only have two boxes, not three, because silica is very,
very confusing. Some people take sadaqa because sadaqa can be wajib
or fourth, or knuffel. So the Khawaja is, for example, if I
vowed that if this work of mine happens, and I'm going to give 10
pound in the path of Allah that sadaqa YG. But that has to go to
the poor, right, I'm going to give the poor that has to go to the
poor. Now if I put that in the sadaqa box, and the person who is
collecting the money from there thinks sadaqa is nephila, the
oldest sadaqa is just optional sadaqa, which means Lula. In other
words, they're going to put those two together. That's where it gets
confusing. That's why what I would say is you should have two boxes
saying Zakat and Sadaqah why jiba Zakat, and why gybes sadaqa,
right, which has to go to the poor. And the other boxes, lillah,
and sadaqa. naphtha, voluntary charity. So that's very clear. And
that's why people should just have to this three is very confusing
and very wrong. Because that sadaqa, there could be some wajib
sadaqa in there, which they just add to Lilla. That's why I would
even encourage everybody that if you even do confront these three
boxes are these three possibilities, and you have to
give wajib sadaqa. Don't put it into sadaqa, put it in as a
cardbox because you know, then it's going to go to the poor. And
if it's for anything else, like you want to give sadaqa because
you just want Baraka in your life or you know, something good
happened but if you didn't vow and you just want to give you can give
it in the normal sadaqa Lilla box. That's basically what this is all
about. So hopefully we'll people will take this into consideration
and change the way they set this up. And just a common law here.