The Ruling on Donating Wealth to Disbelievers to Repel Their Evil
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, this man asks: What is the ruling on donating large sums of money to disbelievers? If it is for the benefit of the Muslims, to repel their evil.
Answer:
Even zakah, as you have seen in the book on zakah, is given to those whose hearts are to be reconciled, from among those from whom it is hoped that their evil will be restrained. So the disbeliever from whom it is hoped that his evil will be restrained from the Muslims is given from the zakah, which is an individual obligation. So how is it that he is not given from wealth?
Honorable Shaykh, this man asks: What is the ruling on donating large sums of money to disbelievers? If it is for the benefit of the Muslims, to repel their evil.
Answer:
Even zakah, as you have seen in the book on zakah, is given to those whose hearts are to be reconciled, from among those from whom it is hoped that their evil will be restrained. So the disbeliever from whom it is hoped that his evil will be restrained from the Muslims is given from the zakah, which is an individual obligation. So how is it that he is not given from wealth?
Source
الفوزان - أسباب الفجوة بين كبار العلماء والصحوة (فتاوى) — archive.org (22:17)
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