Paying Zakah in Installments Over Several Months
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: I have a sum of money amounting to two hundred thousand riyals, and zakah has become obligatory on it. Is it permissible for me to pay the zakah in installments, giving one thousand riyals each month until the amount I am required to pay is finished?
Answer:
If it is for a benefit, meaning if a poor person were given the zakah all at once, he might be careless with it or misuse it, then you may disburse it according to his need. There is nothing wrong with this; it is for a valid purpose. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: I have a sum of money amounting to two hundred thousand riyals, and zakah has become obligatory on it. Is it permissible for me to pay the zakah in installments, giving one thousand riyals each month until the amount I am required to pay is finished?
Answer:
If it is for a benefit, meaning if a poor person were given the zakah all at once, he might be careless with it or misuse it, then you may disburse it according to his need. There is nothing wrong with this; it is for a valid purpose. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 03-01-1434هـ — alfawzan.live (1:08:44)
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