Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Simplified Zakat Guidance Imposing What to Do Zakat Funds

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The speaker discusses the issue of giving money to poor people and how it can become neutral money. They suggest giving people money as a way to avoid giving it to wealthy people and avoid wasting it on bad things. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of giving people what they want and finding a fair price for them.

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