২,৭০৭ নিবন্ধ
Ruling 1996. A person can take from the ‘in the way of Allah’ portion of zakat for hajj, ziyārah,[1] and suchlike, even if he is not poor or has alrea
Ruling 1995. A person cannot buy property from zakat and give it as a charitable endowment to his children or to those whose living expenses are oblig
Ruling 1994. A person cannot purchase the Qur’an, religious books, or books of supplications (duʿāʾs) from the ‘in the way of Allah’ portion of zakat
Ruling 1993. A poor person cannot settle for a lesser amount of zakat before receiving it, nor can he accept something more expensive than the value o
Ruling 1992. If a person doubts whether or not he gave the zakat that was obligatory for him, and the property that was subject to zakat still exists,
Ruling 1991. It is disapproved (makrūh) for a person to request someone entitled to receive zakat to sell him the zakat he gave him. However, if the p
Ruling 1990. The charges for weighing and measuring wheat, barley, raisins, and dates that one gives as zakat must be paid by himself.
Ruling 1989. If someone entitled to receive zakat is found in one’s town, he can still take it to another town but he must pay the expenses for transf
Ruling 1988. If in the town of the person who wants to give zakat there is no one entitled to receive it and he cannot spend it in any other legally j
Ruling 1987. It is better that zakat be given openly and recommended alms to the poor (ṣadaqah) be given secretly.
Ruling 1986. It is recommended for one to give zakat on cows, sheep, and camels to poor persons who are respectable. In giving zakat, one should prefe
Ruling 1985. If a poor person does not know that zakat has not become obligatory for someone and he accepts something from him as zakat and it perishe
Ruling 1984. If a poor person knows that zakat has not become obligatory for someone and yet accepts something from him as zakat and it perishes while
Ruling 1983. If before zakat becomes obligatory for a person he gives something to the poor as zakat, he cannot count it as zakat. However, if afterwa
Ruling 1982. If a person transacts with the property that he has set aside as zakat without the authorisation of a fully qualified jurist and incurs a
Ruling 1981. If someone who is entitled to receive zakat is present when a person sets aside zakat, it is better that he give the zakat to him unless
Ruling 1980. If some profit accrues from the zakat that a person has set aside – for example, a sheep that has been kept aside for zakat gives birth t
Ruling 1979. A person cannot use for himself zakat that he has set aside and replace it with something else.
Ruling 1978. If a person puts aside zakat from the things on which it had become due, he still has right of disposal over the rest of those things; an
Ruling 1977. If a person can deliver zakat to someone who is entitled to receive it but does not, and it perishes without him being negligent in looki