Collecting money for a poor woman and a merchant trading with it
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh. The questioner says: A poor woman, and some merchants spoke to her behalf,
The Shaykh:
Correspondent.
The questioner:
A poor woman, and some merchants spoke to her behalf, so they collected for her a sum of one million and four hundred thousand riyals. Then I traded with this amount, and it increased to one and a half million. Is any of it permissible for me? Should I give it all to her? Or should I give her what she needs and distribute the rest to those who are entitled to it? Knowing that when I spoke to the merchants, I did so for her sake.
The Shaykh:
This is one of the strange things: a woman for whom a million is collected. This is not permissible. A poor person is given only the amount of his need, and millions are not collected for him. He is given the amount of his need, and the excess is given to other poor people. So this amount is not for the woman; the woman is not entitled to it. She is not entitled to anything from it except the amount of her need only, and it is not befitting to do this. If you want to help the needy, you take only what suffices him. If he needs it a second time, you collect for him a second time, and so on. As for you collecting a sum and trading with it for him until it reaches a million, this is one of the wonders; he is no longer poor.
Honorable Shaykh. The questioner says: A poor woman, and some merchants spoke to her behalf,
The Shaykh:
Correspondent.
The questioner:
A poor woman, and some merchants spoke to her behalf, so they collected for her a sum of one million and four hundred thousand riyals. Then I traded with this amount, and it increased to one and a half million. Is any of it permissible for me? Should I give it all to her? Or should I give her what she needs and distribute the rest to those who are entitled to it? Knowing that when I spoke to the merchants, I did so for her sake.
The Shaykh:
This is one of the strange things: a woman for whom a million is collected. This is not permissible. A poor person is given only the amount of his need, and millions are not collected for him. He is given the amount of his need, and the excess is given to other poor people. So this amount is not for the woman; the woman is not entitled to it. She is not entitled to anything from it except the amount of her need only, and it is not befitting to do this. If you want to help the needy, you take only what suffices him. If he needs it a second time, you collect for him a second time, and so on. As for you collecting a sum and trading with it for him until it reaches a million, this is one of the wonders; he is no longer poor.
Source
شرح عمدة الأحكام، باب الجنابة - باب التّيمّم - باب الحيض — islamhouse.com (1:21:19)
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