QUESTION: Is it okay to give Sadaqah to an approved NGO that provides meals to homeless people, both Muslims and non-Muslims?

Charity, Zakat
04 Jun

ANSWER: No problem in general sadaqah, but you can’t give neither zakat nor expiation to them.

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QUESTION: In my home, I, sister and mother stay together. We both are unmarried and our three people’s gold together is above nisaab and separately it isn’t. So do we have to pay zakaat?

Zakat
02 May

ANSWER: No, there’s no zakat on it as it must be calculated individually and not all together.

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QUESTION: In one of your videos, you said a women who does no job, have no money but if she has 85g of gold or more, then she should sell some of gold to give zakat on it! If a divorced women with 2 childrens, possess 200 gram of gold, can she use that money after selling or must she give it to someone else ?

Zakat
26 Apr

ANSWER: She must give it to poor and needy Muslims!

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QUESTION: My husband has paid half my zakat for gold and told he would pay the rest in the next 3 months since he doesn’t have money now so is it allowed or should the rest of the zakat money be payed immediately by borrowing money or by selling my gold?

Zakat
23 Apr

ANSWER: Zakat must be paid immediately when it’s due, you can extend it to a few days but not months like this. You must sell some of your gold to pay off the zakat if you don’t have cash. Your husband is not obliged to pay for your zakat as this is your gold and […]

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QUESTION: Sheik, my family says we sell part of our gold every year for zakat, and it’s reducing over time. Is there any reward for this? Is there any hadith related to it?

Zakat
19 Apr

ANSWER: Of course you will be rewarded for fulfilling your obligatory worship, exactly like how you’re rewarded for praying salah & you will be sinful if you don’t pay it. If you have cash, you don’t need to sell any of it.

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QUESTION: I’m married and well settled man. I give zakat on my wife’s (housewife /non-working) jewellery . My father-in-law is a daily wage earner, with no savings and has just a very old house , which he lives in ( and is falling apart ). My question is, can i give the zakat money to him?

Zakat
16 Apr

ANSWER: If it’s your wife’s gold then it’s not permissible to give its zakat to her father

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QUESTION: Can voluntary donations replace the obligation of Zakat, meaning that one does not have to pay Zakat if they give enough in voluntary charity?

Charity, Zakat
04 Apr

ANSWER: Can one offer voluntary prayers and intend that it takes the place of Fard prayers?

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QUESTION: Giving zakal ul fitr in the name of our deceased father/mother/Grandparents for them to get the blessings and reward out of it, is it permissible or is it an innovation?

Fasting and Ramadan, Innovations, Zakat
29 Mar

ANSWER: It’s not permissible to give zakat ul fitr on behalf of deceased people & it’s an innovation.

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QUESTION: If a person has upcoming remaining 50% payment of his car, which is a big amount, can he deduct that amount from the calculation of his Zakat money?

Zakat
29 Mar

ANSWER: This is not permissible and he must give zakat on what he has in hand.

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QUESTION: Is it true that we should not give zakat if he/she has gold though they are very poor. Kindly explain this.

Zakat
28 Mar

ANSWER: If they are poor and the amount of gold is minimum which women usually need to adorn themselves with, we don’t need to expect them to sell their gold or their clothes before giving them zakat! 

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