Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Simplified Zakat Guidance Imposing What to Do Zakat Funds
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Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim. The issue about zakat I want to
mention
today is when you give zakat to someone a poor person, you
identify a needy individual. And then you give them zakat, either
in cash or you give it to them as an asset as food or furniture or
something like that. Generally, you cannot really stipulate that I
am going to give you this 1000 pounds as a cut, and you must use
it on your fees, your tuition, or you must use it to pay your rent.
You can't really do that. I mean, you can encourage it. And you can
say I I'd rather you spend it on that that's fine. Because once the
rule here is that once a person gives zakat, to a poor person,
it becomes this and it becomes just neutral money to do whatever
they want with in fact, that person now can even give that
money to a wealthy person or can feed a wealthy person with it,
because it's no longer charity money as such. The charity has
been done that we get this from a hadith of saya Buhari, etc, in
which the Prophet sallallahu sallam was hungry once and he
asked, is there any food in the house? So I shall read the hola on
her slave girl barrier or the Allahu anha? She said, Yes, I've
got some meat that is coming as charity to her. She received it as
charity. The prophets Allah some couldn't take charity. So he said,
No, it's okay, Lucky Saudi sadaqa. For you, it was charity. But for
us, it'll become idea. Because once it's gone to the poor person,
and they've accepted it, they become owner, it becomes
neutralized, it's just like any other asset. Now, they can
basically do whatever they want with it now. So that's why, if you
do that, we do have cases where you want to give somebody has
occurred because they needed they need food, but then they've got a
drug addiction, or they've got another problem, they just buy
things they don't, they shouldn't have, like, they want to buy
expensive phones, but their families struggling for food. So
in that case, if you think they're going to abuse your money, what
you'd rather do is that go and find out what they want. And ask
them if they want that and then go on by those by those things, and
then give that as zakat to them. So you can then write off the
value of those things as your second payment, that's fine. So a
lot of the time, it's where people need a house, but they've got
other, you know, they've got a really bad place they live in, and
they need to have it fixed. But the all the money the father is
receiving from anywhere, he's just wasting it on bad habits. So
sometimes what people do is that they get their approval, the of
the household of those who are entitled to this occurred there
and say, Okay, we will pay the construction workers to build this
out for you or build this wall for you, or do this for you, or buy a
refrigerator for you or buy a
bed for you or whatever it is. Having said that, if you're a
businessman, and you've got spare stock laying around anything, I
have to give my zakat anyway. So let me just offload the stock on
to poor people. Now, you can do that, as long as the poor people
who you're giving it to need it, can use it, and you value the
stock at a fair price. Not that it's thing that's never going to
sell, and you give it a high price. So you did if you owe 1000
pounds, and this thing, high price, 200 pounds, where it's
actually just worth 50 For flogging it off, but you give it a
200 pound price. So basically you say oh, I've paid 200 of my zakat
that would be unfair, you can't just give it a inflated price,
you'd have to be very fair about the price that you value to deduct
that from your circuit.
Likewise, what you can't do for a businessman is that you sell
refrigerators or whatever. And then you go and offload them on to
Poppy and they don't even need them. Like we've already got a
refrigerator they say and you're gonna just take another one. Right
that that would not be right either. Right? The guy is gonna
end up with, you know, five refrigerators in five years. He
doesn't need him. Yes, he says okay, I'll take it, I'll sell it,
that's fine. But otherwise, the person has to be willing to accept
what you give them. Right And generally when it comes to sada
cards, as Allah says in the Quran, we've just read that in sort of
two Bacara is that you should give up the pure write of the pure not
of just reject stuff, you can give reject things but just value it as
less. That's the main thing. So hopefully Inshallah, we can we can
do this correctly, just Sokoloff aerosol water