Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Simplified Zakat Guidance Zakat to Family Members
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
Salatu was Salam ala CD Mursaleen. While early he was so heavy as
Marine. So the important point about zakat today is those who can
give zakat to and those who can't. So the simple way to understand
this is that you cannot give zakat up and down. But you can give the
cut right and left or in any diagonal direction. That's just so
that you can have some kind of visual understanding of what to
do. What it means by you cannot give the card up and down is you
can't give it to your parents, or your grandparents, and your great
great grandparents and anybody above. So no forefathers, you
can't give it to your mother or your father, or your grandparents
from either side and up. Likewise, you're not also allowed to give it
to your children, right, your your real children, or your
grandchildren, or your great great grandchildren, and so on. So
that's up and down. The reason is that wealth is generally shared
between such people or there's responsibility. So you can offset
that by giving your records like others to be given to others who
you don't have that responsibility for generally, but you can give
right and left, right and left means your brothers and sisters.
So that's right and left, right. And you can also give diagonally,
which basically means you can give to uncles and aunts. Right. So
they're connected that way through your parents, so your uncles and
aunts, and great uncles and aunts, grandparents, brothers and sisters
are fine because they're not your direct grandparents. Likewise, you
can give to nieces and nephews which is diagonally down. And of
course, anybody else for that matter. You can give the car to
any other stranger that you can give the car to. Obviously all of
this is zakat in Islam has to be given to a Muslim. So this is when
we say it's allowed in every other direction except up and down. It
means as long as they're Muslim, then zakat would be validly
discharged if you gave it to them.