The Ruling on Donating Sacrificial Animals to Poor Countries and Refraining from Cutting Hair and Nails
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Question:
Charitable organizations have launched a project to send sacrifices to poor Islamic countries. Is one who donates to these organizations required to observe the same restrictions as the one who performs the sacrifice himself, such as refraining from cutting his hair and nails during the ten days?
Answer:
We have already pointed this out. Is this a question about whether this is permissible or not permissible? If he wants to give charity to poor countries or poor people, he can give them charity other than the sacrifice. As for the sacrifice, it is a ritual that is slaughtered at home, among the children and the household, who benefit from its blessing and its meat and eat from it. But these objectives are not achieved if you send it to another country. However, if he wants to benefit another country with charity or a donation, the door is open. That is, there is nothing here but the ritual; you change it, put down some money, and it goes. This does not achieve the intended purpose, nor does it achieve the objectives of the sacrifice and its effects on the household, the joy of the household with it, and their eating from it.
Charitable organizations have launched a project to send sacrifices to poor Islamic countries. Is one who donates to these organizations required to observe the same restrictions as the one who performs the sacrifice himself, such as refraining from cutting his hair and nails during the ten days?
Answer:
We have already pointed this out. Is this a question about whether this is permissible or not permissible? If he wants to give charity to poor countries or poor people, he can give them charity other than the sacrifice. As for the sacrifice, it is a ritual that is slaughtered at home, among the children and the household, who benefit from its blessing and its meat and eat from it. But these objectives are not achieved if you send it to another country. However, if he wants to benefit another country with charity or a donation, the door is open. That is, there is nothing here but the ritual; you change it, put down some money, and it goes. This does not achieve the intended purpose, nor does it achieve the objectives of the sacrifice and its effects on the household, the joy of the household with it, and their eating from it.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/42 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (34:30)
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