Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Simplified Zakat Guidance Can it Be Given to Masjids or Da’wa Organisations

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