Collecting money for a needy person: Does this fall under asking people for help?
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If one knows that a relative or a neighbor of his is in need, and he goes out and works among his friends and relatives to collect some money for him so that he can be self-sufficient and not have to ask people, does the one who collects the money fall under the category of those who ask people for help?
The Shaykh:
No, this is helping in righteousness and piety, and meeting the need of a needy person who is in need of charity, of zakah. So he is working to help him meet his need. Yes.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, which is better?
The Shaykh:
One who is upon good is like the one who does it. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If one knows that a relative or a neighbor of his is in need, and he goes out and works among his friends and relatives to collect some money for him so that he can be self-sufficient and not have to ask people, does the one who collects the money fall under the category of those who ask people for help?
The Shaykh:
No, this is helping in righteousness and piety, and meeting the need of a needy person who is in need of charity, of zakah. So he is working to help him meet his need. Yes.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, which is better?
The Shaykh:
One who is upon good is like the one who does it. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 08 من 21/شرح رسالة العبودية/بالعبودية نعت كل من اصطفى من خلقه/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة — youtube.com (1:11:35)
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