Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Lillah, Sadaqa, Zakat An Important Clarification

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.