The ruling on giving zakah to reconcile Muslims and to restrain the harm of some of them
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Do Muslims count among those whose hearts are to be reconciled, for the purpose of settling disputes between them and restraining the harm of one Muslim toward another?
The Shaykh:
If Muslims dispute and fighting breaks out between them,[Al-Hujurat 49:9] and one intervenes to restrain some of them from others and bears their expenses, yes, this is among those who are in debt.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The questioner:
Does it fall under the saying of Allah the Exalted? Does it fall under those whose hearts are to be reconciled?
The Shaykh:
Those whose hearts are to be reconciled, I say, it is. Yes.
The questioner:
Muslims, for the purpose of settling disputes between them and restraining the harm of one Muslim toward another?
The Shaykh:
How is this? This does not count as reconciliation. This is reconciliation, and it counts as being in debt for the sake of others. Yes, one is not given from the funds for reconciling hearts unless he is a Muslim whose faith is weak, or a Muslim who is wavering, and he is given so that his faith becomes strong. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Do Muslims count among those whose hearts are to be reconciled, for the purpose of settling disputes between them and restraining the harm of one Muslim toward another?
The Shaykh:
If Muslims dispute and fighting breaks out between them,
And if two factions among the believers should fight
وَإِن طَائِفَتَانِ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ اقْتَتَلُواThe presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The questioner:
Does it fall under the saying of Allah the Exalted? Does it fall under those whose hearts are to be reconciled?
The Shaykh:
Those whose hearts are to be reconciled, I say, it is. Yes.
The questioner:
Muslims, for the purpose of settling disputes between them and restraining the harm of one Muslim toward another?
The Shaykh:
How is this? This does not count as reconciliation. This is reconciliation, and it counts as being in debt for the sake of others. Yes, one is not given from the funds for reconciling hearts unless he is a Muslim whose faith is weak, or a Muslim who is wavering, and he is given so that his faith becomes strong. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 698- حكم دفع الزكاة للإصلاح بين المسلمين، وكف شر بعضهم|الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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