The ruling on holding a feast to feed the poor as expiation
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Question:
Is it permissible to give voluntary charity to a young man who has two wives and a salary, but has a debt? Is it permissible to hold a feast and invite them to it? Is it permissible for me to eat from this feast? And what is the type of this feast? Perhaps our sister, Shaykh Salih, intends by this question what you mentioned regarding the expiation for delaying the making up of Ramadan? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
The expiation for Ramadan, which is feeding a poor person for each day, yes, the first and the default ruling is to provide food that is given to the poor so they can dispose of it as they wish. If she prepares food and gathers a number of poor people to eat it equal to the number of days, for example, if she owes ten days and wants to expiate for her delay, and she prepares food sufficient for ten poor individuals and gathers them to eat it, there is no harm in that. Or if she gives cooked food to a family for the number of its members, there is no harm in that. Cooked food suffices according to the correct of the scholars' opinions. So if she feeds the poor people breakfast or dinner for the obligatory feeding in her liability, that suffices according to the correct opinion, if Allah wills. Because the feeding that Allah the Exalted commanded has been accomplished. Yes.
Is it permissible to give voluntary charity to a young man who has two wives and a salary, but has a debt? Is it permissible to hold a feast and invite them to it? Is it permissible for me to eat from this feast? And what is the type of this feast? Perhaps our sister, Shaykh Salih, intends by this question what you mentioned regarding the expiation for delaying the making up of Ramadan? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
The expiation for Ramadan, which is feeding a poor person for each day, yes, the first and the default ruling is to provide food that is given to the poor so they can dispose of it as they wish. If she prepares food and gathers a number of poor people to eat it equal to the number of days, for example, if she owes ten days and wants to expiate for her delay, and she prepares food sufficient for ten poor individuals and gathers them to eat it, there is no harm in that. Or if she gives cooked food to a family for the number of its members, there is no harm in that. Cooked food suffices according to the correct of the scholars' opinions. So if she feeds the poor people breakfast or dinner for the obligatory feeding in her liability, that suffices according to the correct opinion, if Allah wills. Because the feeding that Allah the Exalted commanded has been accomplished. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4336- أخرت قضاء رمضان لسنوات فكيف تقضيه ؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:07)
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