Assisting Charitable Societies in Helping Donors Determine the Areas of Their Charity
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Q: Given the great need of some families in certain cities, villages, and settlements in the country, and the lack of a monthly income for them, some charitable societies have collected cash amounts and named them “Sponsoring a Family in
(Ramadan) As Your Eminence is aware, people turn to good deeds in the month of Ramadan. Is it permissible to collect cash amounts under the name: (Feeding a Fasting Person) and buy foodstuffs and distribute them, including dates, without cooking the food, or is it necessary to cook it? Knowing that restaurants do not meet the required purpose, as is the case with the fasting people's iftar tables we see offered every year. I hope Your Eminence will be pleased to respond to that. May Allah reward you with the best reward.
A: Charitable societies should assist donors in determining the areas of their donations. If the society directs donors to the following areas: 1. Donating to feed fasting people in mosques. 2. Donating to feed needy families. 3. Donating to sponsor a needy family in Ramadan. This specification helps those in charge of the society in achieving the desired goals. As for the amounts donated by their owners for the purpose of feeding fasting people, they must be spent in the same area for which they were specified, and it is not permissible to spend them in another area, even if it is sponsoring a family; because the donor intended to feed fasting people specifically for the great reward in that, taking from his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):
As-Sunan al-Kubra lil-Nasa'i 13:854 . It was narrated by al-Tirmidhi, and Ahmad, and al-Bayhaqi, and al-Tabarani, and because spending the donated amount in what it was donated for has not become difficult to the extent that it must be spent in something else.
(Ramadan) As Your Eminence is aware, people turn to good deeds in the month of Ramadan. Is it permissible to collect cash amounts under the name: (Feeding a Fasting Person) and buy foodstuffs and distribute them, including dates, without cooking the food, or is it necessary to cook it? Knowing that restaurants do not meet the required purpose, as is the case with the fasting people's iftar tables we see offered every year. I hope Your Eminence will be pleased to respond to that. May Allah reward you with the best reward.
A: Charitable societies should assist donors in determining the areas of their donations. If the society directs donors to the following areas: 1. Donating to feed fasting people in mosques. 2. Donating to feed needy families. 3. Donating to sponsor a needy family in Ramadan. This specification helps those in charge of the society in achieving the desired goals. As for the amounts donated by their owners for the purpose of feeding fasting people, they must be spent in the same area for which they were specified, and it is not permissible to spend them in another area, even if it is sponsoring a family; because the donor intended to feed fasting people specifically for the great reward in that, taking from his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):
Whoever feeds a fasting person will have a reward like his
من فطر صائمًا فله مثل أجره
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