Adding the funds for the expiation of an oath to the funds collected for feeding the fasting person
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Fatwa No. ( 18677 )
Praise be to Allah alone, and may peace and blessings be upon the one after whom there is no prophet. And after: The Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta has reviewed what was sent to His Eminence the Grand Mufti from the Society of Charity in Jeddah , which was referred to the Committee by the General Secretariat of the Council of Senior Scholars, with number (5765) and date 27/11/1416 AH. The inquirer asked a question, the text of which is as follows: 1- The Society carries out a project every year to feed fasting people. Based on the size of their project in previous years and their estimates for the year in which they are working, they expect a certain number of meals, the value of which will be provided through the charity of benefactors. They contract with some restaurants to provide them with iftar meals to be distributed to the poor at collection points, and the value of these meals may not be fully funded until the end of Ramadan, or it may not be fully funded at all, in which case they are forced to cover the shortfall from the item for the expiation of oaths, or the item for feeding a poor person. The amount may also be completed and have a surplus, in which case they defer its disbursement to the following year. What is the ruling on this action, and is it permissible to disburse the feeding of a fasting person before receiving the amounts from the donors? It may even be before the donor intends to give charity for feeding a fasting person. And is it permissible to transfer the amounts
from one item to another? Or to defer them to the following year if the amounts arrive late? 2- The Society carries out a project every year to collect and distribute zakat al-fitr to those entitled to it, and they estimate the size of the project as they do for the project of feeding the fasting person. What is the ruling on this work?
After studying the inquiry, the Committee responded with the following: First: It is obligatory to disburse the charities and expiations according to what their owners have entrusted them to do. If the donor has entrusted them to disburse it in Ramadan, it is not to be delayed beyond that. And if the one who owes an expiation has entrusted them to disburse the expiation, it is not permissible to spend its amount on anything else; rather, it is obligatory to purchase the expiation and disburse it on his behalf. Second: It is not permissible to disburse the charity or the expiation before the order of the donor or the one who owes the expiation; because it requires his intention. It is obligatory, when receiving the funds of the donors, to disburse them on their behalf according to their entrustment, and likewise for the expiations. And success is from Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions.
Praise be to Allah alone, and may peace and blessings be upon the one after whom there is no prophet. And after: The Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta has reviewed what was sent to His Eminence the Grand Mufti from the Society of Charity in Jeddah , which was referred to the Committee by the General Secretariat of the Council of Senior Scholars, with number (5765) and date 27/11/1416 AH. The inquirer asked a question, the text of which is as follows: 1- The Society carries out a project every year to feed fasting people. Based on the size of their project in previous years and their estimates for the year in which they are working, they expect a certain number of meals, the value of which will be provided through the charity of benefactors. They contract with some restaurants to provide them with iftar meals to be distributed to the poor at collection points, and the value of these meals may not be fully funded until the end of Ramadan, or it may not be fully funded at all, in which case they are forced to cover the shortfall from the item for the expiation of oaths, or the item for feeding a poor person. The amount may also be completed and have a surplus, in which case they defer its disbursement to the following year. What is the ruling on this action, and is it permissible to disburse the feeding of a fasting person before receiving the amounts from the donors? It may even be before the donor intends to give charity for feeding a fasting person. And is it permissible to transfer the amounts
from one item to another? Or to defer them to the following year if the amounts arrive late? 2- The Society carries out a project every year to collect and distribute zakat al-fitr to those entitled to it, and they estimate the size of the project as they do for the project of feeding the fasting person. What is the ruling on this work?
After studying the inquiry, the Committee responded with the following: First: It is obligatory to disburse the charities and expiations according to what their owners have entrusted them to do. If the donor has entrusted them to disburse it in Ramadan, it is not to be delayed beyond that. And if the one who owes an expiation has entrusted them to disburse the expiation, it is not permissible to spend its amount on anything else; rather, it is obligatory to purchase the expiation and disburse it on his behalf. Second: It is not permissible to disburse the charity or the expiation before the order of the donor or the one who owes the expiation; because it requires his intention. It is obligatory, when receiving the funds of the donors, to disburse them on their behalf according to their entrustment, and likewise for the expiations. And success is from Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions.
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