What is the ruling on paying the expiation for an oath to a charitable organization?
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Question:
What is the ruling on paying the money for the expiation of an oath to a charitable organization, so that the expiation is paid and they deal with the remaining amount?
Answer:
Financial acts of worship are to be handled by the person himself, because his liability is not discharged unless he places them in the prescribed legal places. The organization does not restrict itself to this matter; they take it and mix it with other funds, and they do not care about it as much as its owner does. Financial acts of worship include zakah, expiations, vows, 'Id sacrifices, and 'aqiqah sacrifices.
These are to be handled by the one for whom they were legislated, and he executes them. Or he appoints a trusted agent to execute them. As for paying them to organizations, there is no single person in charge of the organizations. The groups are in charge, and it is not known how they execute these matters. So your liability is not discharged except with certainty, either that you executed it yourself, or that your agent, in whom you trust, executed it at its proper time, in its proper place, and in its designated location. Do not be lax with acts of worship to this extent.
It is predominant among you that you pay them to organizations. Donations are fine; pay to the organizations. Donations. And things that are not obligatory acts of worship, not fard, but rather recommended acts of worship, pay them to the organization. There is no harm in that. Because if they are advanced or delayed, it does not harm. Yes, but these specific acts of worship, which are bound by times and places, your liability is not discharged by paying them to organizations.
What is the ruling on paying the money for the expiation of an oath to a charitable organization, so that the expiation is paid and they deal with the remaining amount?
Answer:
Financial acts of worship are to be handled by the person himself, because his liability is not discharged unless he places them in the prescribed legal places. The organization does not restrict itself to this matter; they take it and mix it with other funds, and they do not care about it as much as its owner does. Financial acts of worship include zakah, expiations, vows, 'Id sacrifices, and 'aqiqah sacrifices.
These are to be handled by the one for whom they were legislated, and he executes them. Or he appoints a trusted agent to execute them. As for paying them to organizations, there is no single person in charge of the organizations. The groups are in charge, and it is not known how they execute these matters. So your liability is not discharged except with certainty, either that you executed it yourself, or that your agent, in whom you trust, executed it at its proper time, in its proper place, and in its designated location. Do not be lax with acts of worship to this extent.
It is predominant among you that you pay them to organizations. Donations are fine; pay to the organizations. Donations. And things that are not obligatory acts of worship, not fard, but rather recommended acts of worship, pay them to the organization. There is no harm in that. Because if they are advanced or delayed, it does not harm. Yes, but these specific acts of worship, which are bound by times and places, your liability is not discharged by paying them to organizations.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم دفع كفارة اليمين إلى جمعية خيرية؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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