Hatem al-Haj – Fiqh of Zakat #7

Hatem al-Haj

Fiqh of Worship -How to Pay Zakat

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The importance of deferring payment on certain days and maintaining good health is emphasized. The retirement plan is designed for individuals and is not designed to protect money from future debts. deferring payments are a big deal and it is important to give charity and give money to charity. The importance of local community consensus is emphasized and the proposal to allow democratic educational demos is proposed. Money is not just a means to avoid wasting it.

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			The following session will be on those who may not be given of this account.
		
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			Remember Kodama Rahim Allah said Babel flashes occur how to pay zakat, he said leave us with a
pharaoh Sokka and what he will do will be here is an uncanny Raja fanfare Allah fatale fun man
		
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			lamda spot on who's aka in 34 cobbler who sakata is not permissible to delay to delay it, meaning to
delay payment has occurred until after it has become obligatory if one is capable of paying it.
		
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			If one is capable of paying it,
		
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			full stop. If one does does delay it, and the property is ruined, the responsibility of paying Zakat
will not be revoked. However, if it is ruined before the time of obligation, it will be revoked.
Basically, you have your as a cat, do they? Like
		
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			your CBD is like a due date is a certain day of the year. On that day, there's a cat becomes
obligatory. If you delay given the cat after this day, and your money is lost.
		
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			There's a cat is already buying them. It's a death, like you're indebted with this money to Allah
subhanaw taala you'll have to pay, you know, and there's no disagreement here. Now,
		
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			if
		
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			if right before that day, all of your money was lost, then certainly you don't need the basic app.
But the question is, what if this day comes, this day comes and you don't have see you that you
don't have cash? You don't have currency? like you see here can you know and yes, you will have. And
this case in the Hanbury mess have the allow you to defer this again, you can't defer it as again
this case, what if you have money, but you need it for your needs, you're needed for something
really important. You have like you have money, but your credit card bill is coming. And you know,
you use a credit card, but you pay on time so that you don't incur interest and get yourself in
		
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			trouble.
		
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			Your credit card bill is coming up. And you need to keep this money to pay your credit card bill.
		
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			The honeyberries will tell you deferred, that is fine if there is a need. Or if you don't have the
money defer, that is fine until you are solvent until you're capable of paying, then you must pay it
then once you are but if you defer it for an execuse and you lose the money, keep in mind you're
already indebted with this money to Allah. So the fact that you are deferring it does not mean that
the liability is being postponed, you're already liable on your account due date it's done. You Oh
Allah subhanaw taala $256.
		
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			But your credit card bill is coming and you're afraid if you pay this today, to the poor, you're not
going to be able to pay your credit card and then you have to incur interest and then you'll get in
trouble. You keep the $256 you pay your credit card bill. And then later if you have a debit card
and debit card does everything for you the credit word, you don't need to build a credit history
then certainly don't have a credit card and have a debit card in case you have a credit card because
you need it for whatever reasons or to build the credit history or this or that then this example
here applies to you.
		
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			Then afterwards, you pay the 256 once you have enough money but what if you are unable to pay it not
because you have the money yet you need it. you're unable to be paid because for instance you have a
retirement plan and if he was to draw from so you have your retirement plan is $100,000. And if he
was dropped here, and we said keep in mind because I you know someone called me from Texas and they
said that you know CFA hurdle that you have and you wish they had about Zika and you're saying that
the cost is 0.5% or not 2.5%. I told them as crazy.
		
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			Don't make that sort of risk
		
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			when it comes to retirement plan
		
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			We failed, we set it to 0.5% on the total, because you will subtract the penalties and the deferred
taxes. And then you will have 16,000, for instance, and the 60,000 are in stocks, and not all the
stocks are accountable. So we figured that, you know, out of the different positions that the
scholars had, some of the scholars said,
		
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			you pay 10% is 10%, on the profit of the stocks, some of the scholars said, your estimate, you know,
what is acceptable in those stocks? what is acceptable in the companies that you put your stocks in,
and you pay on that, and we said, approximate figures, 30% 30%, or one third of 60,000 would be
20,000. And if you pay 2.5%, on 20,000, that's like being 0.5% on
		
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			100,000. That's where the 0.5% came from, and never said, You know, I never investigated the new
ruling about the rate of the car is, you know, anyway.
		
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			But so 0.5% 0.5% of 100,000 is how much $500?
		
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			Okay, so $500, you don't have them?
		
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			You know, some people, you know, some people live hand to mouth all the time, you know, you don't
have them.
		
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			So what do you do?
		
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			Thank you.
		
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			I like people who are punctual and precise.
		
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			Okay, so now,
		
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			you don't have the money. Some people also have like, you know, a lot more money in their retirement
plans. And then there's a cat could be like, $30,000, they really don't have the $30,000. And this
case, in this case, if your retirement plan allows withdrawal, allows withdrawal, but with
penalties, we will not tell you who you know, withdraw the money and basically, sustain the
penalties. But we will tell you, you should pay your ticket every year, you should pay your ticket
every year, because it was voluntary. You voluntarily put your money into this retirement plan, you
should pay your ticket every year. If you're unable to you don't have the money favors a car. Later,
		
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			when you start to withdraw money from your retirement plan, or to get a salary or whatever it is
here. You will you're able later when there are no penalties.
		
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			But you will have to keep track of how much you're lost every year. So this year, my second was 500.
Next year, my second is 1500. Keep track and then 30 years later, when you retire. You're You're
also much in the car. Well, that's why if that is what you want to do. And you're unable to pay on
an annual basis. What if that the thing that does not allow you whatever you contribute to a
retirement plan that does not allow any form of withdrawal? Forget about penalty, they just don't
allow us to draw. They don't allow or you put your money into an account that just doesn't allow
withdrawals. What do you do? You do the same thing, you in this case, because you're not really
		
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			allowed to possess the money. In this case, you are not required to pay it on an annual basis, you
will be required to pay it for all the years when you start to collect the money for all the years.
Why is this if you don't have complete possession of the money he has
		
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			of the money, it should not be accountable. But we said mathematical fact he said it is still
accountable because you voluntarily contributed to this retirement plan. Then how you will need to
pay there's a cap on the money that you contributed only not the money that your company contributed
not the money that the government contributed not the money that that accrued as a profit from this
only the money that you contributed, because you voluntarily took this money and contributed to that
plan. And you you cannot you know, we cannot allow this money to be shielded from Zakah because
everybody will be putting their money in long term locking their money in long term investments and
		
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			people will not be paying the cap. So the scholar is said out of SSN and that is when juristic
preference
		
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			as needed juristic reference out of SSN, you remember when we talked about debts if you incurred
that for investment versus consumption, and the difference the scholars
		
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			contemporary scholar said, That's that you incur for investment are unlike this that you incur for
consumption that you incur for consumption or for your needs are to be subtracted from your assets
that you incur for investment or not. This is called a sand juristic preference, even though that's
we have the reports about debts and we have the established sort of understanding that you subtract
your debts, but the contemporary scholars said, nowadays, people are incurring debts, you know,
factory owners and businessmen everybody's incurring this and people are incurring debts for
mortgage to buy a $500,000 house and all of that stuff, if we allow all of this debts incurred for
		
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			investment, for a property that is existing to be subtracted from the cap, the poor will not get
anything, people will just no one will be paying anything in the cap.
		
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			So that is when the scholars come in and use as their said, they also use this lesson here. And they
said, Yes, we understand that the amendment medical has complete ownership and the ability to
possess the money or conditions for the money to be the capital. Yet, since you yourself voluntarily
put your money into a locked in account for five years or 10 years, this money will still be
socketable. And we will not ask you to pay it as a cat though, because you can't pull the money out.
We will not ask you to pay there's a cap now, but counted year after year, you counted 500 this year
550 next year 600. And then at the end of the 30 years, you figure out that you owe $12,300 ns a cat
		
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			and you pay this money when you can collect it. Clear. Okay, so that is in terms of deferring the
payment that is aka deferring the payment of Zakat is a big deal. Don't defer the payment of Zakat,
if you can, so that you don't make yourself liable in the sight of Allah subhanaw taala. Don't defer
Zika
		
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			disambiguation or, hopefully, where to start is Cameron nisab, when I choose a couple of Eric, he
says it is permissible to base a cat early if done asabe is reached. But it is not permissible.
Before that we get this question a lot. People say
		
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			you can pay it as a captain advance. That's what he said. And in the embedding method, you could pay
in advance for two years, can pay in advance for two years.
		
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			So
		
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			there is a particular event, there is a particular fundraising. And he says yourself, I don't really
have that much money to give charity, and I already paid my cat.
		
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			But you could if you have done a song, if you don't have an answer, then there is no as a cat
obligatory on you the Sabbath the cause that would make this kind of obligatory. on yours, the cat
due date is not existence, so you can pretty gives account. But if you haven't on asabe,
		
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			which is the second threshold, like he has $1,000 and you just paid yours a cap. And then two months
later, there is a good fundraising about like some good cause that is a cat eligible, and you feel
that you don't have enough money to pay, or you don't want you don't desire to give charity, random
charity that's not sick out. So you could say to yourself, okay, I will give this from my next is a
next to my next cycle. From this account that is due on my next due date, how for you you walk by
someone who's poor, and you really feel bad for them, and you take like $200 out of your pocket, if
you make the intention, then if you make the intention that this is advanced care, keep in mind, you
		
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			cannot be you know, given a random charity and come in at the end of the year and say to yourself,
Well, I give a lot of money to a lot of people. So don't worry about calculating mezakeh or even if
you know how much you gave, but you did not intend at the time of giving given it that this is
advanced care. You cannot subtract this from years ago. This will count as just random charity, you
cannot subtract this from this guy. You can only subtract it from yours. Okay. If at the time of
giving you intended that this is advanced. But this is advanced Zika and you could do this for up to
two years. Many people ask that's what I wanted to start with. He they say we have relatives and we
		
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			don't want to give them all the money all at once.
		
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			Because they will miss users, you know, my brother, or my
		
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			whatever and or something.
		
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			They're, they're not prudent in their finances and stuff like this, and I want to give them a
monthly salary. Fine. You can do it from this account next year. Now this account of the previous
year, so give them a monthly salary $100 every month. And then at the end of the year, at the end of
the year, you figure out I gave my brother 12 $100 every time I give my brother $100. I intended
that this is advanced care.
		
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			And you wonder he's using brother Yes, I'm using brother because like I said before,
		
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			you know, the medic, he and the Shafi position here about, you know, the NASA, ascendance and
descendants. nomadic is restricted to parents and children. This seems to be in a stronger position
when it comes to people that you are responsible for people that you are responsible for. And if
you're not responsible for the or not your dependents, you could give them a cap. So yes, you could
give your brother and your sister from your zakat.
		
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			And then you give them a monthly salary or you give anyone like you give any amount of monthly
salary, and then intended that this is from this gap and then subtracted at the end because the
Prophet sallallahu Sallam said that we have taking the Zakat from Allah best in advance
		
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			there's a cap of one year from Allah bass and in some reports that also two years in advance
		
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			or it It could mean to yours not necessarily that it is clearly mentioned.
		
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			So that is in terms of pain as a carrot in advance that they want to say anything about this. Any
other thing about paying this account in advance
		
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			i think i think that's it
		
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			and then even Mr. law said we're in our agenda Mr. Hacker, Mr. Hacker had to do in surrender job
even early in the fall of
		
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			our zap inteliphone manual and your job is
		
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			is if one pays it earlier than the due date to someone who does not deserve it it will not count
		
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			even if that person becomes a worthy recipient there is a cap on the due date. If one pays it early
to someone who deserves it and then that person dies or no longer needs it or becomes an apostate it
will it will still count for him. However if his property is ruined after he paid this account, he
cannot ask for it back from the person who received okay so you give here is okay in advance you
give yours okay in advance. You give here is that guy here that someone in advance how this time
they were poor, undeserving poor and deserving of Zika What do you give them? There's a cap
		
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			on here is that cap? Do they? Like have do they that person that you gave us? Eight months earlier
on here is the count due date became rich?
		
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			not deserving of the cap. does yours a cap count? Yes. Because at the time you gave it to them, they
were poor. Even if they became apostates, you know God forbid
		
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			years ago counts Yes. Because of the volume you gave it to them. They weren't.
		
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			And then by the way, if you give a person Zakat here they are rich and when they become poor on your
account due date, can you say yes they were not deserving when I gave it to them, but now they are
deserving and it is my account Do they know you can because of the time you gave it to them so what
matters is the time you gave it a while if you give people a lot of money here a lot of money here
and on your account dude, he calculate here his account and your his account is zero.
		
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			And he gave already like for a lot of money. What can you do?
		
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			You can take it back, but you can shift it to next year or over the next year. Next year. What if
you have zero here? That's it. It's your hobby and it's not your last?
		
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			Yeah, you gave money for the sake of Allah and so like it they weren't in the hereafter.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Then the see accept
		
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			Hello savica ella Bella didn't observe a Salah Illa Allah damania who have a better idea.
		
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			It's not allowed to transport charity or is okay in this context, to a faraway place where it
becomes permissible to shorten the prayer. Unless one does not find anyone who deserves it in his
own area to take it. And this is the last masala here about giving the Zakat
		
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			faraway place where he can shorten
		
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			the Salah is let's say 50 miles away 50 miles away,
		
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			is considered far away enough in the madhhab to shorten your solo.
		
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			In general, aside from the Maliki's the handbag, the HANA fees, and shafa is hand and valleys, they
tell you that your account has to be paid in which place where you live,
		
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			or where your money is.
		
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			Know where your money is. Yes. So because that is the place that is deserving, this is where you're
investing your money. So and that that is completely consistent with his logical and very
consistent, you know.
		
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			So if you if you if your money is in Dallas,
		
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			and you live in New York City
		
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			who would live in New York City, his money in Dallas, I don't know. But some people
		
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			but if that is the case, your money is in Dallas, you live in New York City, Dallas is mountainous,
deca is the place where you need to pay yours again. According to them, the magic is 70 New York
City.
		
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			But according to the majority, the clear majority you will give yours a cap in where the money is,
where the assets is, as a capital assets are, you know, you have your massage your farm in a place,
you have your livestock in one place in a village and you live in a nearby village, you give yours a
cat in the village with that where the livestock is, these are the people that are seeing those cows
or those cattle coming back and forth every day. And they have some expectation. Okay, so that is
now that you need to give it in Dallas, the same is saying here 50 mile radius 50 mile radius,
		
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			not not 50 mile radius, you know, so Dallas is here
		
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			50 mile radius.
		
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			So 50 mile radius,
		
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			you could give yours a cat
		
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			in Dallas, or within 50 miles from where you live within 50 miles from where you live, you can give
your account to people here.
		
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			Now,
		
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			that is
		
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			unlikely, but keep in mind, it may be your you whoever said that you give yours a cap where you are
because that is what we said it's a capital because the capital for you give it wherever you are
right or wrong.
		
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			Not where your money is where you are. Because it's not as a Catholic man, it's not as a Catholic
those assets is this Catholic retinas binding on your individual on your person. It's not binding in
the money binding on the person that was you know, and everybody have their dependence. So the
capital factory will give it where you reside, but a capital man, you will give it where the man is,
where the assets are. Can you give it now? Can you send it now to
		
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			Jakarta?
		
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			Can you send your account to Jakarta
		
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			if we have
		
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			deserving Muslims here, deserving Muslims here? You cannot send it to Jakarta, according to Malik
safaree anathema
		
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			if we have deserving, if we do not have deserving Muslims here you can send it to Huawei, according
to all of them
		
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			in a way according to all of them if we don't have deserving Muslims here to take this account
		
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			If so there are two points of consensus here.
		
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			First consensus is the priority of the local neighborhood nearby. The priority of the nearby people
is by consensus. Second consensus. No one is deserving in your area. And within the 550 mile radius,
no one is deserving. You can't you can send it out because this is one of your multiple momentum I
had this nation of yours is one nation, you could send it away.
		
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			What if What if you have deserving Muslims here but more deserving, which is the case, you know,
that everybody talks about? more deserving elsewhere? more deserving elsewhere?
		
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			relatives elsewhere?
		
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			And the more deserving here is based on need and married, need and married.
		
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			So the amount of honey for sad
		
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			if you have more deserving people based on need, they are poorer. based on merit, they are students
of knowledge, for instance. So they they're hoping the honor by dedicating their lives to seeking
knowledge
		
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			or you have relatives and they are outside of this your area, you still could send the money to
them.
		
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			You still could send the money to them.
		
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			And then so you ask him for money for whatever they are not more deserving. I have deserving here
and I have deserving here.
		
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			deserving deserving, not more deserving, deserving deserving? He will tell you give it here. But if
you give it here,
		
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			it is still okay.
		
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			But suboptimal.
		
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			It is the only dislike
		
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			to give it away. If they're equally deserving. For the job more, it is harder
		
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			to give it here. If they're equally deserving, I have to give it here inside your area.
		
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			So anytime a law shows the position of Imam Abu hanifa, particularly, but not, not the position of
Iran would be this like he said it would be prohibited to give it away. But he chose a position of
Jamba hanifa that if you have more deserving for relatives, you could send that to them. If you have
more deserving people, like people impressing me, then, you know, or more deserving poor people or
relatives, you could send the money to them, even if you have deserving people in your area.
		
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			And that is so that would be like watching the man's ham, ham choosen by me.
		
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			Certainly it is the hanafy position. But the majority would still say
		
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			as long as you have deserving people inside this circle, you need to give it to the deserving people
inside the circle. The majority are saying for a moment a lot of thought about am sadaqa in agony I
am fed up dollar for crime. When the Prophet sent more as to a young man he said to him and then if
the wife and i
		
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			agree and the follow obey you concerning this Allah then let them know that Allah have made
obligatory on them. Santa Clara charity, which is the mandatory charities a cap to has omega m that
will be taken away from their agonia the rich among them for $1 for Cora M and given back to the
poor among them. And in the sense of the local people having a priority. This is an agreement the
member hanifa does not disagree with us. Yes, local people have a priority, which is unlike Imperial
systems. They they take the money from all the peripheries and they pour it into the center capital,
you know, no in Islam, no, we don't take the money from the peripheries, to the center, everybody,
		
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			every locale, they keep their own money to a
		
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			lot of crime, you know, Amaro de la llamada jabya. I did not send you as a tax collector. And he
used to remind his own man that I am not sending us tax collectors. I send I send you to teach the
people about their deed and so on, not as tax collectors. So this is a matter of agreement, local
people are more deserving by agreement. That question is
		
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			Whether we could send that away to more deserving people and other places based on need or merit and
to our relatives and other places and it seems that the amount of honey fact could use
		
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			and we did say this before you know the fact that we're Muslims are one nation he may say that talk
of Allah
		
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			Allah Quran taking from the rich man give them them he refers to Muslims, not Yemenis photographer
cry man, but you know the Jew who would say obviously, he was sending him to the man and he was
talking to them. So, it meant from the same people you know, the money will be taken from either he
among you will given back to the poor among you, because of the weather it also makes sense you
know, in a village to take the money from that village and send it to the next village village
village, when you have poor undeserving people in village a, why did you send it to village be
		
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			so
		
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			so that's that is that but what what we wanted to stress here is that there is a consensus about the
priority of the local people consensus about the priority of the local people likely if you have
more deserving pressing need like a tsunami and
		
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			earthquake or people are really deserving people are under siege people are those kinds of people
that are more deserving
		
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			likely we we are okay to send out a democratic demo hanifa and the choice of Mira mala
		
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			likely is okay. But it should never make us collect all the money and send it over and ignore the
local need it right from from this discussion? Does it make sense to ignore the local need it does
not really make sense to ignore the local need. Does whether you say it is haram to send it away or
say it is suboptimal or macro descended away. Everybody is saying it is not
		
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			a good idea to ignore the local needs whatsoever.
		
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			That's it, the quicker the other stuff in the homeless shelter learns to where they can we actually
did finish early today.