Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Sadaqat alFitr What, Why and When

Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim as we're ending the month of Ramadan,

generally every year people will be accustomed to giving what they

call the cattle feta or sada cattle feta. And what exactly is

Southern cattle feta mean, from as far back as I remember, this is

something that we've been doing parents have been doing it, but

what is the significance behind it, the importance of it, and how

should it be done? So that's kind of what I want to quickly mention

just so we understand the significance of what we're doing.

So firstly, the Hadith that I'm going to quote gives us the

significance of it. It's related by Imam Abu Dowd. In there, the

Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said Zeca told Fitri to

hurt only saw him in a love we were Rafa. We're taught Mattoon

automaton little Moroccan man, a DA cobbler solidarity for here

Zeca to Nakula woman a da ba salotti for here, Sada Koto,

Minnesota caught. So this is a very significant narration about

Zika to fit the solder catheter. What the professor was saying is

that he called it Zagato. And that's fine Zika to fit the South

Dakota, you can call it both because they both charities,

right, they both mean charity, it's a purification, it's a way of

compensation of purification for the fasting person from lower and

refer from basically, the futility that they were engaged in. During

the fast, you know, maybe we said something, maybe we didn't do

something perfectly, or whatever and rough, any, any other kind of

obscene talk we may have done or something like that. So minor

mistakes, small issues that may have come into our fasting, this

is one way to compensate for that. It's a very small amount we give

right, compensate. And number two, the other benefit it has Allah

just uses these compensations don't matter nearly Moroccan, it's

actually a food source and a supply for the poor people the

profit and loss and then said when to give it whoever gives it before

the salaat then it is an accepted zakat, an accepted sadaqa, an

accepted charity for this purpose, meaning for the compensation and

so on, whoever gives it after the salad, you still have to give it

so obligatory, right? But after that, it's just like any other

subject that you just give us otherwise, it won't be counted as

a purification or compensation. But you still have to give it at

least by a Buddha, because then gives you an understanding of why

we give it now the what's important here is when should you

give it I know a lot of people, right? And I may have been guilty

of this myself because you think you have to give it on eBay,

right? This was a common, this is a common understanding that you

have to give a needy, so people bring the money, right. And

actually, it was fine in more in many countries in the world. And

still today, it's actually fine in many countries in the world to

give it on eBay. Because the purpose of sadaqa defeater is not

like other charity. This is actually for charity that poor

people are sufficed on the day of Eid.

So the poor person doesn't need to go and beg on the day of Eid.

That's why the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam said in the hadith of

Daraa, cottony the other new home and in reality, we have a young

basically suffice them from having to ask on this day, so they can

spend their eat also in eating, from the hospitality of Allah.

Right, so that they don't have to go and beg on this day as well.

That's why the last time I was in Zambia, I noticed this, that when

we used to go to the Eid, gah, there were a huge number of poor

people standing on both sides of the street. So in many countries,

even till today, probably in in her in the Haram in Makkah, Makara

Medina as well, the poor people who stand around because they know

this is the day when people are going to give sadaqa to fitter. In

England though, we don't have this when you go to the masjid

generally, on the way to eat, you don't see any poor people.

So then you go and give it in the mosque, but the charity box in the

masjid, they then then they is I'm assuming that many massage will

find it very difficult to go and spend it. Give it over to poor

people on the same day.

Some people who are martial are very proactive, some relief

organizations, right? Like OMA welfare trust, I remember, they

used to send an advance amount to the various different places, you

know how much they estimate estimated that would come in. So

that even though people gave an E, they could actually offset that

with what they already had there and disperse it on the

disseminated on the day of eat. So that's why my encouragement this

year is that we already you know, several days in advance, give it

as early as possible. Of course, you can also be sure even given

before Ramadan, but because the idea is to let the poor person

benefit from it on the day of Eid, that's why it's best to give it a

day or two in advance. Right. But obviously, if you're going to give

it through a relief organization, then you can give it even earlier

so that they can manage the funds and make sure they get it to the

right place. Of course if you know your own local people, then you

can give it directly and that will probably be even better. Right for

You to do that directly.

So how much is Southern counterfeiter in the Hadith, etc,

it just mentioned it's a saw a saw is a was a container in a time of

the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you can actually buy them

these days a salt container. So it was a sort of wheat, or barley, or

dates, or some some, some other food products. So essentially,

that is how much you would give them. So really, what's mentioned

in the books is to actually give grain or dates or something like

that food. Nowadays, again, in England, that's difficult, because

if you went and gave somebody, a cup of wheat, a bag of wheat, a

kilo or whatever,

they're going to be a bit surprised, right? Eventually, you

might have too much wheat stored or barley or whatever. So that's

why what we generally do is that we find the price of a song of

dates, generally people go according to wheat, right? So the

cheapest of that is generally the wheat. As far as I understand,

that's why you generally have the southern cattle feed ranging from

about three to four pounds, sometimes goes down to about two

pounds in America is about five to $10, depending right, so the idea

of is that they can go and use that.

Again, if you go according to dates, it'll be more expensive

sort of dates are probably going to be more expensive than a sort

of wheat. So that's why when the Mercy tells you that it's three

pounds or two pounds, if you actually have wealth, you've got

money, mashallah then you should actually give a higher number,

generally, from the last time that we checked, according to the date

price, it was more around the eight to 10 pound mark,

and the wheat and that price was the was the two three pound mark.

So if you have more money you have enough, then you should actually

give the higher because it can be done with all of those. And I

think the reason for that is different people can give because

generally the idea was to give it in the product itself. So if I had

dates, I would give dates, if I had wheat, I would have given

wheat or barley, and so on. So for yourself, the cattle fitter this

year to determine the price, unless you want to work this out

for yourself, right? You want to give extra that's fine, your best

bet is to ask one of your local institutions, you know, your

masjid or others to find out where it is some people are saying it's

three pounds, some people have calculate, calculated at five

pounds, some at 10 pounds. Again, as I mentioned that this is all

based on what they've used to calculate, always, the higher

amount is better as far as far so to give the highest amount that

you can give, don't try to look for the cheapest one. So that's

the idea of all of this, try to give it as soon as possible. And

who has to give it basically in the Hanafi school, it's the

father, he has to give it an all of his dependents, the wife has to

give her own because she can tell the husband to give it give it on

her behalf from his wealth or if he agrees or give it to him to

give or she can donate directly, but the Father is in also

responsible for all of his dependents. Anybody who's

basically alive that morning, right? Because that's kind of the

obligation time the morning of eat, he has to give him on behalf

of all the children and who has to give it not poor people because

poor people will receiving is basically anybody who has any sub

the quantum which is minimal. Like for example today, it would be if

you have about 250 to 300 pounds about three $400 over and beyond

your essential needs. If you have that much in assets, then so the

counterfeiter is necessary on you. Right. So try to give it a bit

earlier. And now you can actually give it with an understanding and

this idea that Insha Allah, some poor people will be helped by

that. And that is the way Allah subhanaw taala is balancing out

that we assist the poor, right we have this relationship with them,

because the real way was to actually go and do it is just like

the real ways to actually gone in the middle of how to do qurbani

itself yourself. But unfortunately, nowadays, we just

give it to relief organizations and they do it in place where we

never see it before. So we're losing the significance of it

because we never see anything. It's just a payment payment

payment. Oh, it's another payment, it's another payment is another

bill I have to pay, right? It's not another bill you have to pay.

There's a significance of that. Right? And that's why when we give

it on the day of Eid, the eighth day is then called yo Majah is is

the day when you get an award for the whole of Ramadan's, you know

the the worship of Ramadan. So inshallah if we've given this

expiation, right, it helps the poor people, it helps us to purify

us as well. And then we get our reward from Allah subhanho wa

Taala May Allah subhanaw taala accept it from all of us working

with that one on it. Hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen