ANSWER: If you made a vow to pay 30% of your income in means of charity, you can’t give any of it to your parents, your wife or your children. But if you did not make a vow or utter it, rather this was just an intention between you and yourself, you can give your […]
Read moreANSWER: Best is to give them cooked food (a similar meal that you have normally), however, no problem in giving them uncooked food as well. You can buy them (10 poor muslims) 1.25 kg of rice each or buy new clothes for them.
Read moreANSWER: If one made an oath that he did not do something but was lying, there is no expiation for this as it is too grave and serious to be expiated.
Read moreANSWER: This is totally baseless, fabricated and nonsense!
Read moreANSWER: No, it’s not valid. It must be only given to Muslims. You must pay again to poor and needy Muslims.
Read moreANSWER: Oaths that must be expiated are oaths over things in the future such as wallahi I will do this or I won’t do that. Oaths over things in the past don’t require expiation. If a person lied on purpose, this is sinful and known as “dipping” oath that dips the person in hell.
Read moreANSWER: This is not permissible as you must refrain from sinning indefinitely.
Read moreANSWER: No problem in giving them raw food: 1.125 kg per person of rice.
Read moreANSWER: If you are paying 3 kaffarah by feeding 10 poor people 3 times, you can feed the same 10 people, one kaffarah at a time without a problem What is not permissible is to feed a person more than once per kaffarah.
Read moreANSWER: If you don’t have the money to feed or clothe 10 poor Muslims per oath, you must fast 3 days for each broken oath. You must not delay it till every month! You must also not give it to any organization as they must feed only poor Muslims. If you are not certain of […]
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