Committees for Collecting Zakah and Sadaqah for the Afghan Mujahideen
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Question:
We know the need of the Afghan mujahideen and refugees. Are there committees to collect zakah and sadaqah for them? If there are committees, what are their addresses? And why is there not a house of zakah managed by scholars to collect zakah and distribute it to the needy Muslims in the world? Because we are here in good condition, praise be to Allah, and there are no poor or destitute among us?
Answer:
The poor exist, and the destitute exist. Even if a person does not know them, others do. They are present in Riyadh and in places other than Riyadh. The poor exist, the strangers exist, the debtors exist, and the needy exist. But it is sufficient for the servant to say, "I do not know." As for them not existing, they do exist. The committee exists to help the migrant mujahideen and refugees from Afghanistan. It is the committee of Prince Salman, may Allah preserve him, from Riyadh.
I have sat for several sessions and arranged the matter. I assigned the Al-Rajhi Bank, Al-Sabai Bank, Al-Riyadh Bank, and Al-Ahli Bank—these four—to receive the aid. Then it is transferred to the mujahideen and migrants, who are the refugees, and it is sent to them. It has been sent to them many times from what was collected in these four locations. Some of it comes to us and we transfer it to them. We appoint someone to carry it to them and distribute it among them there, among the mujahideen and refugees. So the matter is ongoing, and it is transferred to them from time to time. All the millions collected are transferred by the existing committee, which is under the patronage of His Highness Prince Salman. A great deal of money has been transferred to them. The committee is still distributing it to them now; over seventy million has been collected and transferred to them. Collection for them continues at these four locations, gathering what the helping brothers have provided. Some of them send from their side to them, either through one of our delegates or through Shaykh Siyafi. When it arrives, he takes it in his hand. The point is that this is ongoing. Whoever has something hands it over to the Al-Sabai location or the Al-Rajhi location, and it will reach its people, if Allah wills, through the mujahideen and the refugees, whom they call the migrants. They are present in Pakistan, many of them, and in places other than Pakistan, but most of them are in Pakistan. Yes.
We know the need of the Afghan mujahideen and refugees. Are there committees to collect zakah and sadaqah for them? If there are committees, what are their addresses? And why is there not a house of zakah managed by scholars to collect zakah and distribute it to the needy Muslims in the world? Because we are here in good condition, praise be to Allah, and there are no poor or destitute among us?
Answer:
The poor exist, and the destitute exist. Even if a person does not know them, others do. They are present in Riyadh and in places other than Riyadh. The poor exist, the strangers exist, the debtors exist, and the needy exist. But it is sufficient for the servant to say, "I do not know." As for them not existing, they do exist. The committee exists to help the migrant mujahideen and refugees from Afghanistan. It is the committee of Prince Salman, may Allah preserve him, from Riyadh.
I have sat for several sessions and arranged the matter. I assigned the Al-Rajhi Bank, Al-Sabai Bank, Al-Riyadh Bank, and Al-Ahli Bank—these four—to receive the aid. Then it is transferred to the mujahideen and migrants, who are the refugees, and it is sent to them. It has been sent to them many times from what was collected in these four locations. Some of it comes to us and we transfer it to them. We appoint someone to carry it to them and distribute it among them there, among the mujahideen and refugees. So the matter is ongoing, and it is transferred to them from time to time. All the millions collected are transferred by the existing committee, which is under the patronage of His Highness Prince Salman. A great deal of money has been transferred to them. The committee is still distributing it to them now; over seventy million has been collected and transferred to them. Collection for them continues at these four locations, gathering what the helping brothers have provided. Some of them send from their side to them, either through one of our delegates or through Shaykh Siyafi. When it arrives, he takes it in his hand. The point is that this is ongoing. Whoever has something hands it over to the Al-Sabai location or the Al-Rajhi location, and it will reach its people, if Allah wills, through the mujahideen and the refugees, whom they call the migrants. They are present in Pakistan, many of them, and in places other than Pakistan, but most of them are in Pakistan. Yes.
Source
ندوات الجامع الكبير مع الأسئلة - 37 — archive.org (37:53)
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