Charity

QUESTION: Can I give money to my family friend who is going for Umrah to give to charity on our behalf? Like we ask him to buy a Quran with our money and donate it to Masjid al-Haram

Charity, Quran, Reading/Reciting the Quran

05 Sep

ANSWER: You should not keep the Qur’an there as the authorities would dispose them off because it doesn’t have their official stamp. Give charity where ever you are and don’t send it all the way to Makkah.

QUESTION: Is it permissible to give charity on behalf of alive non muslim parents (hoping even though they won’t be directly rewarded for it as Kafirs but charity also has other benefits so it could be beneficial for them)?

Charity

23 Aug

ANSWER: This is not permissible as they are disbelievers and won’t benefit from such charities intended on their behalf. Might as well throw your money in the river!

QUESTION: Someone wants to celebrate his birthday. But he will not have any birthday cakes or things like that. Rather he wants to celebrate by fasting, giving charity to the poor people etc.. My question is Is it permissible to celebrate birthday like this?

Charity

08 Feb

ANSWER: No, this is not permissible as its an innovation. You can give charity on any other day why choose your birthday?

QUESTION: As we know that charity do reaches to deceased if done on their behalf, will Allah inform those souls in barzakh in ilyeen that so and so of your friend sended gift of charity for u ? and Does the soul Feels happy when they know that their friends had did charity on them behalf

Charity, Funerals

19 Jan

ANSWER: This is knowledge of the unseen and only Allah knows this. What matters is that this would benefit the deceased!

QUESTION: Is it permissible to donate in a masjid which is not ahle hadees. Like they are the ones who do Fatiha. Can we support them in construction of masjid and their madrasa and will we be rewarded? In which masjid we aren’t supposed to donate? Urgently we need the answer as a masjid needs our help.

Charity, Rulings on mosques

29 Dec

ANSWER: It’s not permissible to donate to masjids or madrasahs of deviant aqeedah and innovations as this would be assisting and collaborating in their sins.

Whats the ruling on giving sadaqah with the intention for more than one person. Example I give sadaqah and have intention that the reward goes for me and family members and dead person

Charity

04 Aug

ANSWER: No problem in that however the reward will be divided amongst all the people intended for it.

Can a man or women give sadaqah money to parents and siblings?

Charity, Zakat

25 Jul

ANSWER: No problem in giving Sadaqah however, it is not permissible to give zakat to those who you are obliged to spend on, which is your parents. You can give zakat to your poor siblings if you won’t inherit them when they die.

My husband sets aside 5% of his income on monthly basis with the intention of charity. Can I use this money to offset debts and bearing other daily expenses of my brother or there is any specific category of people who deserve this charity?

Charity, Fiqh of Marriage

19 Jul

ANSWER: This is your husband’s money and it’s not permissible for you to give it to anyone without his permission. If he permits you to give it to the poor and your brother falls under this category, you may do so.

If we give charity to a family and later find out that the male of the family used that money to consume alcohol, What should we do?? Are we responsible for their sin because it was our given money??

Charity

18 May

ANSWER: If you were not aware of his intention prior to giving charity then you are not sinful. Next time, don’t give them cash but rather pay their bills or buy them food.

Can reciting from gifted quran give sawab to person who gifted it

Charity, Reading/Reciting the Quran

22 Dec

ANSWER: Yes.

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