Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Simplified Zakat Guidance How to Determine Eligibility of Recipient
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Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim. Now the question really relating to
the God as to how much of an inquiry investigation
determination you have to make as to the eligibility of the
individual that you're giving your account to. Obviously, that's an
important aspect, no doubt about it, because you as a God should go
to a poor person, and you should give possession over to them for
your cigar to be fulfilled. Because if it goes to a wealthy
person, and use the card may not be fulfilled. So in here, the
Sharia has given us some leeway you do your best, whatever is
within your means. That doesn't mean that you hire an investigator
necessarily, or that you even have to ask for bank statements and
everything like that, of course, any small amount of doubt,
somebody's asking you for the cards, and they seem a bit shady,
they've asked 567 different people. And this seems to be kind
of a repeat habit. And you're getting worried that they're just
collecting money, then in that case, of course, you can ask for
bank statements, you can ask for more if you still want to give it
but for the normal person that comes along, all we're required to
do is to kind of assess them based on our best understanding, say,
Look, you can ask him a few questions if you want to. You
don't have to just give it because there are, unfortunately, there
are people out there who who do take advantage of this things
wrongly. So you ask a few questions. As long as you've got
content in your heart that yes, this sounds right. You give it to
them, that would be fine. Even if it then turns out later, as long
as you've done your bit of due diligence. Right? You don't have
to act like a benefits caseworker where you basically just grill
them, right? I mean, subhanAllah some people do that you don't have
to do that necessarily.
And then you help them and if even if it then turns out that, you
know, maybe they were not eligible use the card would be valid, as
long as you've done your due diligence, we have that much
leeway in in our Sharia. So we just do our best. We do our best.
Of course, if there's somebody who have dealt on, then rather than do
all the inquiry and everything, you know, you could just say I'm
not going to give it to you or give it to somebody else. Right?
You know, because sometimes a lot of this could be embarrassing as
well. So you have to avoid embarrassment. But at the same
time you know, you don't be just so light about it that you just
give it to anybody who asks, even though you got to doubt because if
you've got a doubt then your worship would not be your wish it
would not be complete if you've got a doubt. So you should not
have any doubt you should have enough conviction yourself that
yes, this sounds legit, and then inshallah it's all fine. Inshallah
Allah will accept it, just like a low hero.