Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Simplified Zakat Guidance How Much Can Be Given to One Person

			Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim. The
second issue for today is when you
		

			give zakat to someone, how much
can you give to someone. So let's
		

			just say somebody's got 10,000
pounds of zakat to give can they
		

			go and give that to one single
individual. So we have some laws
		

			in there. Firstly, I'd like to
mention that if somebody does give
		

			a single individual a huge amount,
the Zakat would be dispensed. But
		

			it would be mcru. Generally, it
would be Makrooh and undesirable
		

			and reprehensible to do this, if
whoever you're giving it to the
		

			recipient, the poor person, right,
if he now becomes the owner of an
		

			ESOP. So now let me explain that
		

			if somebody has got a large
family, or a few members of the
		

			family, and you want to give them
and today, you want to give them
		

			maybe 1000 pounds, based on the
silver nisab, which we've
		

			discussed elsewhere, the silver
nisab is around 250 pounds or so
		

			that means you're giving him four
times that amount. Now, generally,
		

			what they say this is one way to
look at it, what they say is that
		

			if he's got a big enough family,
and they're all in need, right, so
		

			he's got several children. And if
you were to take that 1000 pound,
		

			and you were to divide that among
the family members, the wife, the
		

			children, then they would actually
all end up with less than an ESOP
		

			each, then that would be fine,
because you would expect that they
		

			would need this kind of money or
funds to be able to spend in the
		

			next month or two. All right, so
that's one way, number two, if the
		

			person is in need, and he's also
in debt. So let's just say that he
		

			has a debt of 10,000 pounds, you
give him six out of 10,000 pounds,
		

			that would be completely fine,
there'd be no undesirability in
		

			there, because you're giving the
money so that he can pay off his
		

			debt. And he would not retain any
sub his assets. If you basically
		

			take his net
		

			assets and his his liabilities, he
would not have any sub left. So if
		

			a person is in debt, you can
actually give them a more as well.
		

			So that's two things. Now, today,
people are going to be saying, if
		

			I give 250 pound to somebody a
practical whatever the nisab of
		

			silver is today, 250 300 pounds,
$500, whatever it is, if I give
		

			that much, that's going to be for
some people, that's half a month's
		

			rent, or for some people's one
month's rent, which in two days is
		

			going to spend. So that's just
going to go into rent, what about
		

			for everything else? So I think in
cases like this, we have some
		

			leeway that we could probably go
buy the gold nisab. Right, which
		

			would be more in the in the few
1000s 234 1000. And until you
		

			don't go beyond that we could for
these particular circumstances,
		

			maybe we could use that benchmark
and say that, okay, as long as you
		

			don't give too much, but the
spirit of this, you should
		

			understand that you want to try to
help more people, rather than just
		

			lump it all on one person, so that
they become in Sharia terms,
		

			wealthy now, right? Of course, if
they're going to need some money
		

			for the next three, four months,
they have no other income, they've
		

			lost their job, they don't expect
to get it right, then maybe, you
		

			know, the Corolla could be offset
the undesirable it could be offset
		

			if you gave them you know, 1000 or
2000 pounds if you're, if you
		

			still want to go with the silver
nisab threshold and you don't want
		

			to go with the gold, but either
way, I think yeah, otherwise you
		

			can give them slowly, slowly. The
best way would be that if you want
		

			to go with the golden Islam, you
give them to a 250 pound right
		

			now, if they got no debt or
whatever, and they just gonna need
		

			it for the next two weeks and then
you give it them again, but
		

			sometimes that creates more
logistics nightmare logistical
		

			nightmare, sometimes that you have
to keep remembering to give them
		

			so that's why if it's for one or
two months, that they're going to
		

			need it and there's certain bills
that they're going to have to pay
		

			maybe we can just look at the gold
lease for that instead. So insha
		

			Allah Allah, Allah subhanaw taala
allow us to dispense our zakat
		

			carefully and properly and accept
it from us.