The calculation of the reward for wealth zakah paid to the agent of the mujahideen
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The questioner : A questioner says.
The Shaykh : He says: I paid my wealth zakah to the Afghan mujahideen today, and I asked the supervisor if it would reach the mujahideen in Ramadan? He said no, because it is collected, so it may reach them in Ramadan or in Shawwal. Will I be credited with its reward in Ramadan? In any case, you have now paid it to the agent of the Afghans, and what reaches the agent of a person is as if it reached the person himself. This is a rule that a student of knowledge should understand: what reaches the agent of a person is as if it reached the person himself. This rule is useful in several areas, for example, zakat al-fitr. If a poor person said to you, "When the time for zakat al-fitr comes, I have appointed so-and-so to receive it for me," and then you gave it to his agent during the days of paying zakat al-fitr, but it did not reach the poor person until ten days after Shawwal, is it accepted? Yes, why?
Because the agent of a person stands in the place of the person. Those who accept charity for the Afghans are in the position of the Afghans, because they are not your agents. Therefore, if this zakah were to be lost with those who received it, are you required to replace it? No, you are not required to pay zakah as a replacement, rather it has reached its destination. But here there is also an issue regarding the distribution of zakah in Ramadan. It has now become a social problem, people choosing Ramadan to distribute their zakah. It has become a social problem. How so?
People do not know the poor except in Ramadan. In other than Ramadan, you do not find anyone distributing their zakah, except rarely. So the poor have a need in other than Ramadan and do not find anyone to give them charity.
And this is a problem. Second, some people’s zakah becomes due, for example, in Rajab, and then they say: their acts of worship.
You find them always busy asking the rich, and it is as if Ramadan is only a field for begging and pursuing the rich. Many of them do not pay attention to what they should pay attention to, which is worship in this month. There is truly a problem in this, and therefore we should study it thoroughly and look at whether it is in the public benefit that
The Shaykh : He says: I paid my wealth zakah to the Afghan mujahideen today, and I asked the supervisor if it would reach the mujahideen in Ramadan? He said no, because it is collected, so it may reach them in Ramadan or in Shawwal. Will I be credited with its reward in Ramadan? In any case, you have now paid it to the agent of the Afghans, and what reaches the agent of a person is as if it reached the person himself. This is a rule that a student of knowledge should understand: what reaches the agent of a person is as if it reached the person himself. This rule is useful in several areas, for example, zakat al-fitr. If a poor person said to you, "When the time for zakat al-fitr comes, I have appointed so-and-so to receive it for me," and then you gave it to his agent during the days of paying zakat al-fitr, but it did not reach the poor person until ten days after Shawwal, is it accepted? Yes, why?
Because the agent of a person stands in the place of the person. Those who accept charity for the Afghans are in the position of the Afghans, because they are not your agents. Therefore, if this zakah were to be lost with those who received it, are you required to replace it? No, you are not required to pay zakah as a replacement, rather it has reached its destination. But here there is also an issue regarding the distribution of zakah in Ramadan. It has now become a social problem, people choosing Ramadan to distribute their zakah. It has become a social problem. How so?
People do not know the poor except in Ramadan. In other than Ramadan, you do not find anyone distributing their zakah, except rarely. So the poor have a need in other than Ramadan and do not find anyone to give them charity.
And this is a problem. Second, some people’s zakah becomes due, for example, in Rajab, and then they say: their acts of worship.
You find them always busy asking the rich, and it is as if Ramadan is only a field for begging and pursuing the rich. Many of them do not pay attention to what they should pay attention to, which is worship in this month. There is truly a problem in this, and therefore we should study it thoroughly and look at whether it is in the public benefit that
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اللقاءات الرمضانية لعام 1411هـ - 4 — binothaimeen.net (28:32)
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