The Ruling on the Burning of a Commercial Establishment That Did Not Pay Zakah
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Question:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. The questioner asks: What is Your Eminence’s opinion? He says: What is Your Eminence’s opinion if a fire breaks out in a commercial establishment, and they say that he did not pay its zakah? What is your view?
Answer:
And he knows his own state. In reality, it may be a punishment for the zakah, or it may be a punishment for something else, and he knows his own state. If he does not pay zakah, he should repent to Allah and pay it. And if he does not pay it, or if he does pay it but this is a calamity—one of the greatest calamities—then give good news to the patient ones who are struck by a calamity and say:[Al-Baqarah 2:156]. Your Lord is the most wise and the most knowledgeable; it did not strike it except perhaps for a reason. Allah the Exalted said: [Ash-Shuraa 42:30] what your hands have earned.
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. The questioner asks: What is Your Eminence’s opinion? He says: What is Your Eminence’s opinion if a fire breaks out in a commercial establishment, and they say that he did not pay its zakah? What is your view?
Answer:
And he knows his own state. In reality, it may be a punishment for the zakah, or it may be a punishment for something else, and he knows his own state. If he does not pay zakah, he should repent to Allah and pay it. And if he does not pay it, or if he does pay it but this is a calamity—one of the greatest calamities—then give good news to the patient ones who are struck by a calamity and say:
Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return."
إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَAnd whatever strikes you of disaster - it is for what your hands have earned; but He pardons
وَمَا أَصَابَكُم مِّن مُّصِيبَةٍ فَبِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَيَعْفُو عَن
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام [ ابن باز ] [ الشرح الجديد ]، تابع كتاب الزكاة - 2 — islamhouse.com (5:30)
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