Easy Guideline by the Scholars on How to Pay Zakaat Through Modern Currency - Abu Fajr AbdulFattaah bin Uthman

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

*A Must Read❗*

*When should we look out for Laylatul Qadr❓*

Shaykhul Islam Ibn Taymiyyah - رحمه الله - was asked this very question while in captivity in the year 706 Hijri...

...To which He responded:

*Laylatul Qadr occurs during the last ten (nights) of Ramadhan*. This is what is authentically established from the Prophet ﷺ, that he ﷺ said:

((تَحَرَّوْا لَيْلَةَ الْقَدْرِ فِي الْعَشْرِ الأَوَاخِرِ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ)).
"Look out for Laylatul Qadr during the last ten nights of Ramadhan."
[Hadeeth Aishah : Bukhari & Muslim]

And In the version of Bukhari, he ﷺ said:
((تَحَرَّوْا لَيْلَةَ الْقَدْرِ فِي الْوِتْرِ مِنَ الْعَشْرِ الأَوَاخِرِ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ)).
"Look out for Laylatul Qadr *during the odd nights* of the last ten nights of Ramadhan."

▫However, it is important to note that *there are two ways of calculating the odd nights:*

*THE FIRST:*
*By counting the days that have already passed*; such that Laytul Qadr could fall on the 21st, 23rd, 25th, 27th, or the 29th night of Ramadhan.

or

*THE SECOND:*
*By counting the days that remain*, just as the Prophet ﷺ said:
((الْتَمِسُوهَا فِي الْعَشْرِ الأَوَاخِرِ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ لَيْلَةَ الْقَدْرِ فِي تَاسِعَةٍ تَبْقَى، فِي سَابِعَةٍ تَبْقَى، فِي خَامِسَةٍ تَبْقَى)).

"Look out for the Laylatul Qadr during the last ten nights of Ramadhan, *on the night when nine or seven or five nights remain* (out of the last ten nights of Ramadan)."
[Hadeeth Ibn Abbas : Bukhari]

*This means that if Ramadhan was 30 days - and only Allah knows if this will be the case - Laylatul Qadr will fall on one of the even nights*, because the 22nd will be the night when nine remain, the 24th will be when seven remains and the 26th will be when five remains.

This is the understanding of Abu Sa`eed Al-Khudri رضي الله عنه:

Muslim reported that Abu-un-Nadhr enquired:
يَا أَبَا سَعِيدٍ! إِنَّكُمْ أَعْلَمُ بِالْعَدَدِ مِنَّا‏.‏ قَالَ: أَجَلْ! نَحْنُ أَحَقُّ بِذَلِكَ مِنْكُمْ.‏ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: مَا التَّاسِعَةُ وَالسَّابِعَةُ وَالْخَامِسَةُ؟ قَالَ: إِذَا مَضَتْ وَاحِدَةٌ وَعِشْرُونَ فَالَّتِي تَلِيهَا ثِنْتَيْنِ وَعِشْرِينَ وَهْىَ التَّاسِعَةُ، فَإِذَا مَضَتْ ثَلاَثٌ وَعِشْرُونَ فَالَّتِي تَلِيهَا السَّابِعَةُ، فَإِذَا مَضَى خَمْسٌ وَعِشْرُونَ فَالَّتِي تَلِيهَا الْخَامِسَةُ.
"O Aba Sa'id, you know more than us about (these) numbers. He said: Yes, indeed we have better right than you. I said: What is this ninth, seventh, and fifth? He said: *When 21 (nights are over) and the 22nd begins, it is the ninth, and when 23 (nights) are over, that which follows (I.e. The 24th) is the seventh, and when 25 nights are over, what follows it (I.e. The 26th) is fifth".*

If, however, Ramadhan consists of 29 days, these two forms of calculations will be exactly the same.

*This being the case, it is befitting that the Believer works hard throughout the last ten nights of Ramadhan*, just as the prophet ﷺ said:
((تَحَرَّوْا لَيْلَةَ الْقَدْرِ فِي الْعَشْرِ الأَوَاخِرِ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ))
"Look out for Laylatul Qadr during the last ten nights of Ramadhan."
[Hadith Aisha : Bukhari & Muslim]

This is also proven by the practice of the prophet ﷺ, just as Aisha رضي الله عنها said:

كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ إِذَا دَخَلَ الْعَشْرُ - أي العشر الأواخر من رمضان - شَدَّ مِئْزَرَهُ، وَأَحْيَا لَيْلَهُ، وَأَيْقَظَ أَهْلَهُ‏.‏
"With the start of the last ten days of Ramadan, the Prophet ﷺ used to tighten his waist belt (i.e. work hard) and used to pray all the night, and he would also wake his wives."

[T.N: this is not the exact word for word translation, for more information refer back to the original Reference: “Majmu'ul Fatawa”: (25/284)]

Translated by Abu Ishaq Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Al-Barawi

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

The Eye Is the Mirror Of The Heart


Imaam Ibnul-Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

May Allaah have mercy upon him:

‎العين مرآة القلب، فإذا غض العبد بصره غض القلب شهوته وإرادته، وإذا أطلق بصره أطلق القلب شهوته.

The eye is the mirror of the heart. If a person lowers his gaze, the heart will lower its desires and whims. But if a person looks, the desire in his heart will be provoked.

‎[رَوضةُ المُحبينَ صَـ 109]

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Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Saalih Al-'Uthaymeen, may Allaah have mercy upon him - Make the most of Ramadhaan

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_*🌙 A Brief Explanation of the Rulings of Zakat al-Fitr🌙*_


*⏪• What is the ruling of Sadaqah al-Fitr? *

💬Shaikh Bin Baaz said:

Zakat al-Fitr is obligatory on every Muslim, old and young, male and female, weather he is free or if he is a slave.

📚 Al Fataawa (14/ 197)
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*⏪• From what is Zakat al-Fitr to be given in?*

💬Shaikh Bin Baaz said:

It is to be given out as a measurement of food. That is a saa'a of dates or a saa'a of barley or a saa'a of raisins. Any of these types of food products is permissible. The scholars have also said, everything that the people of your particular land consider as their daily food such as rice or wheat or any grains etc.. is also permissible to be given as Zakat al-Fitr.

    NOTE: A Saa'a is approximately 3 kilograms.
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*⏪• When is the Zakat al-Fitr to be given out?*

💬Shaikh Bin Baaz said:

It is to be given out on the 28th day or the 29th day or the 30th. Even the night before the Eid Prayer, or the morning of the Eid but before the prayer.

📚Al Fataawa (14/32-33)
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*⏪• What is the reason behind giving out Zakat al-Fitr?*

💬Shaikh al-Uthaymeen said:

To show your grateful for the blessings of Allah the Most-High on the Eid with breaking your fast from Ramadaan and it's completion.


📚Al Fataawa (18-257)
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*⏪•And who is this Zakat al-Fitr to be give to? *

💬Shaikh al-Uthaymeen said:

It is not to be give out to anyone except the poor.

📚Al Fataawa (18/259)
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*⏪•What is the ruling on entrusting one's children or other than them to pay his Zakat al-Fitr?*

💬Shaikh al-Uthaymeen said:

It is permissible to entrust one's children to pay his Zakat al-Fitr for him when it is time. Even if at that time they send it from another country.

📚 Al Fataawa (18/262)
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*⏪•Is it permissible for the one that is poor to entrust someone else to collect his Zakat al-Fitr?*

💬Shaikh al-Uthaymeen said:

That is permissible.

📚 Al Fataawa (18/268)
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*⏪• Is there any specific dua or statement that one must say when he gives out his Zakat al-Fitr?*

💬We are not aware of any specific dua that one must say when he is distributing his Zakat al-Fitr.

📚The Permanent Committee of Scholars (9/3877)
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*⏪• Is it permissible to give out the value of the weight of the food stock as your Zakat al-Fitr?*
          
💬Shaikh al-Uthaymeen said:

*🔊Giving the Zakat al-Fitr out as money is not permissible. Verily it has been specified as food.*

📚Al Fataawa (18/265)
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*⏪• Is it necessary that the Zakat al-Fitr meets a certain quorum before you have to give it out?*

💬Shaikh Bin Baz said:

The Zakat al-Fitr does not have to meet any quorum, but it is mandatory on the Muslim to give it out on himself and everyone in his household, from his children and his wife and his slaves. If he has enough food for himself and all of them for a day and a night.

📚Al Fataawa (14/ 197)
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*⏪• What is the specific amount for Zakat al-Fitr?*

💬Shaikh Bin Baz said:

That which is incumbent is a single saa'a from the food of that country. And that amount in kilograms is approximately 3 kilograms.

📚Al Fataawa (14/ 203)
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*⏪• Is it permissible for the one paying his Zakat al-Fitr to give out in other than the land he resides?*

💬Shaikh Bin Baz said:

It is the Sunnah to dispence it amongst the needy in his own country. Because not sending out to other lands will help enrich the needy in his own country and ease their needs.

📚Al Fataawa (14/ 213)
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*⏪• Does one have to pay Zakat al-Fitr on the servants in his house?*

💬Shaikh al-Uthaymeen said:

*1.* These servants in his house, Zakat al-Fitr is mandatory upon them if they are from the Muslims.

*2.* But the basis of this Zakat is that it is upon the servants. But if he pays for them when he pays for his family there is nothing wrong with this.
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*⏪• Does one have to pay Zakat al-Fitr on

the unborn child in the stomach of its mother?*

💬Shaikh al-Uthaymeen said:

One does not have to pay Zakat al-Fitr on the child carried in it's mother's stomach because it is not present. But you can if you prefer.

📚 Al Fataawa(18/263)
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*⏪• Is it permissible to give Zakat al-Fitr to workers that are not Muslims?*

💬Shaikh al-Uthaymeen said:

No it is not permissible to give to anyone other than the needy from the Muslims.

📚 Al Fataawa (18-285)
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*⏪•Is the Zakat al-Fitr of one person only to be given out to one other person or can it be given to a number of different people?*

💬It is permissible to give one's Zakat al-Fitr to one person just as it is permissible to dispense it amongst a number of different people.

📚The Permanent Committee of Scholars (9/3777)
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*⏪•What is the ruling on after one receives Zakat al-Fitr he sells it?*

💬If it was his right to receive it, then it is permissible for him to sell it after he received it.

📚 The Permanent Committee of Scholars (9/3800)
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*⏪• What is the ruling on the one that delayed giving out his Zakat al-Fitr till after the Eid prayer without any justified excuse?*

💬Shaikh al-Uthaymeen said:

Delaying it until after the prayer is sinful and it is not accepted from him.

📚Al Fataawa (18-266).

Translated by:
Abu Yusuf Bílal ibn Howard Robinson