Giving a debtor from zakah without verifying the cause of his debt
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: If a person has a debt, is he given from the zakah directly without verifying how this debt came about?
Answer:
If you do not know that he uses it for something forbidden, or that it is the price of something forbidden, then give him the benefit of the doubt and give him. Yes. And if it was in exchange for something forbidden, and he repented from it and was left with a loss, help him as well. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: If a person has a debt, is he given from the zakah directly without verifying how this debt came about?
Answer:
If you do not know that he uses it for something forbidden, or that it is the price of something forbidden, then give him the benefit of the doubt and give him. Yes. And if it was in exchange for something forbidden, and he repented from it and was left with a loss, help him as well. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 09-02-1437هـ — alfawzan.live (1:01:20)
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