The ruling on making zakah a condition for the borrower
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: A person asked me to lend him money, so I agreed to that, but I made it a condition that the zakah would be his responsibility.
Answer:
This is riba (usury or interest) and is not permissible. Yes. The zakah is your responsibility, not his. Zakah is an act of worship. You have imposed a burden on the Muslim. This also involves you doing him a favor. Yes. The loan is good; you should not expect anything from it except the reward from Allah the Exalted. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: A person asked me to lend him money, so I agreed to that, but I made it a condition that the zakah would be his responsibility.
Answer:
This is riba (usury or interest) and is not permissible. Yes. The zakah is your responsibility, not his. Zakah is an act of worship. You have imposed a burden on the Muslim. This also involves you doing him a favor. Yes. The loan is good; you should not expect anything from it except the reward from Allah the Exalted. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 29-05-1433هـ — alfawzan.live (1:11:46)
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