The ruling on paying zakah before its due date

Question:
The questioner, may Allah preserve you, asks about a person who immerses a paper on which a verse or part of a verse from the Qur'an is written in water, and then drinks this water as medicine. Is this prescribed in Islam?

Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As for what follows, treating illness with the Noble Qur'an, whether by recitation (ruqyah) or by writing, falls under seeking healing through the Noble Qur'an, which Allah has made a cure for spiritual diseases, which are diseases of the hearts, and for physical diseases, which are diseases of the bodies. The Salaf, such as Imam Ahmad and others, permitted writing the Qur'an on plates, papers, or something pure, and then washing it so that the writing is washed off and the water is given to the patient to drink, as Imam Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned in the book of medicine in *Zad al-Ma'ad fi Hady Khayr al-'Ibad* (The Provisions for the Journey in the Guidance of the Best of People). So if one does this, there is no harm in it, because it falls under seeking healing in the Noble Qur'an.