Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Simplified Zakat Guidance Can it Be Given to Masjids or Da’wa Organisations
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Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim. The second issue I want to cover in
this session is, can you give zakat money to
a masjid? For the upkeep for their functions for their programs to
build the Masjid? Maybe? Can you give it to an institution? Right?
For our purposes for education purposes? Can you give it to a
school? Can you give it to a dour organization? Can you give it to a
an organization which basically
defends Muslim Rights in non Muslim countries, you know, for
those kinds of purposes, because, to be honest, when you look
online, you do see that there are people who are collecting zakat to
build the Masjid. Right, they are collecting zakat for certain other
activism projects. So is that allowed or not? So, just to give
you a bit of a history, according to the classical scholars, right
from the early stage down to this generation, right, our generation,
there's pretty much an agreement across the board all four mothers
etc, that
that is not allowed. A Masjid is not a recipient of zakat, right. I
mean, on the you know, the first thing which I we explained in
another session, that was that you need to give constructive
possession to an individual and a masjid is not a individual, as an
entity in that sense. It's a walk, it's a separate entity can't take
possession as such like that. Right. But the bigger issue is
this. Right? The bigger issue is this, that this is pretty much the
schema and understanding. I think one of the first people I think
one of the first people, right, who said you can do and he has got
a long article on it, in which he describes the classical view, the
view over the generations. And then he argues right at the end,
he argues slightly differently, to say that it is allowed, then I
think the first person to do that, who I'm discussing is, Sheikh
Yusuf al Qaradawi is quite a big scholar, I mean, is very
knowledgeable Scott and everything. But the majority of
Allamah disagree with this idea of his. I mean, he obviously said it
in good faith and so on, but for several reasons. It's an issue.
And one of the biggest reasons for this is that there's a hadith in
Sahih Muslim which describes the nature of zakat. Right? And he
basically describes it as what's the Who am well in us, that's the
cat is the dirt of the wealth of people. And that's one of the
reasons why you remove it, why you remove it from your wealth. That's
one of the reasons of course, there's many other benefits and
many other wisdoms behind by the gut. But remember, whenever Zakat
is mentioned, the word itself is purification. Zakat means
purification itself. And then Allah says herdsmen and while him
sada cotton to Dahiru home, what is a key him? Right, again, the
concept of purification comes down. And in the Sahih Muslim
narration, it's very clear that it's a dirt of the wealth of
people. And today, you know, the biggest issue that we have, is
that because the God is so easy because everybody has to pay it
and there's huge amounts of zakat that are there, they want to
basically use it for everything, that means all other forms of
charity, voluntary charity, other forms of assistance, and, and
contribution, then that dies out, they went to literally do
everything with regard which is supposed to sort out the the
poverty, right that is primary function of zakat, I mean, there
are the Amelie Natty, there is that discussion. But the primary
focus of Zakat is the poor, right? That is the poor, the Muslim poor,
that is what it's for. Maybe we can have a conversation once all
the poor of the world has been, you know, maybe we can have that
conversation. I'm not saying we will. But what I'm saying is that
that is the mindset of it. And it it it helps the individual
to purify their wealth to purify themselves of the sin and so on.
But then it also helps others. That's why the seeds the family of
the Prophet sallallahu Sallam are not allowed to accept zakat, those
kinds of charity, they're not even allowed to accept. So that's why
do not give you a sucker to masjids. Give other money, we need
to encourage we can't just put all the burden on the god and divert
that money which is supposed to be for the poor, right? To the
Masjid. Right, which is for everybody to use. So that's why
let's focus on raising other funds that hamdulillah the Muslim
community if they can pay so much circuit, that means the cost is
only 2.5% of their entire wealth. If there's a billion pound of
zakat coming out of the UK, I don't know what the figure is,
then that means you can I mean, you can multiply that to show that
US is 114. The assets then is going to be 40 times that amount,
right? That's a huge amount of money and people can give that and
there are people who do give and the whole OMA has been basically
surviving with nuns that God funds for all of these other projects,
right throughout the history. So it's it's an abuse of zakat to do
that is completely wrong, it will be invalid zakat will not be paid,
according to the vast majority of even contemporary scholars and
definitely pretty much everybody from the earlier generations. So
do not give yourself to a masjid or any other organization or it
needs to go to a port in
Individual right where they accept and that's what we have today
Jazak Allahu Allah salamati kumara Tula