What is the ruling on giving to the habitual beggars at the doors of the mosques?

Question : The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, Allah says: So we often encounter people who ask for alms at the entrances of mosques or in the Haram. Their sitting and asking may have become a permanent habit for them. Is it recommended that we give to them in order to realize Allah’s encouragement of this? I ask for a detailed explanation, and may Allah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad.

Answer : First, we must know who the deprived (mahrum) is, because many of the common people interpret the term "mahrum" in a way that is not its correct meaning. Many of the common people interpret the mahrum as the miserly person whom Allah has deprived of benefiting from his wealth, but that is not the case. Rather, the mahrum is the one whom Allah has deprived of wealth, namely the poor and the beggar. This includes the one who asks because of his poverty and the one who asks because of his need. For among people, some ask out of need, some out of dire necessity, some to accumulate wealth, and some out of a sickness, may Allah protect us from that, where they have a sickness that makes them love asking. So those who have a right are those who ask out of dire necessity, meaning if you know that this beggar is in dire necessity for what he is asking for, and you know his condition completely.
Or out of their need, if you know that this person needs something and is not in dire necessity, meaning his food, drink, clothing, and shelter are available, but he needs what people need, such as in our current time, what? A refrigerator, a fan, yes, an air conditioner. This is not necessary, but it is a need, without doubt. So if he asks out of need and I know that, then it is prescribed for me to give to him. But if he asks to accumulate wealth, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: . So if you know that this man is asking to accumulate wealth because I know that he is rich, then I do not give to him. Rather, it is his right upon me that I advise him. And I say to him: Fear Allah, for asking people is a toil that toils the face of a man until he comes on the Day of Resurrection, and there is no pleasure of flesh on his face. Do I advise?
Because if I give to him in this state, I would encourage and motivate him to ask without need. So here we do not give to him, but we advise him, because he is excessive in his asking, and asking is forbidden upon him. And Allah the Exalted said: . Likewise, the one whose asking is a sickness, because some people love asking, so he is sick. Is it better that we follow his sickness and take it upon ourselves, or is it better that we try to cure his sickness?
Yes, the second one, without doubt. So let us try to cure his sickness and advise him, and say: This is not befitting, rather this is forbidden upon you to ask without need. These are our positions with these beggars. And among the beggars, may Allah protect us from that, there are those who appear in the guise of one afflicted with a disability, and you find that he does not make an effort.
Even though when he leaves the mosque, he becomes like Qasr ibn Sa'd, meaning a seated orator, but in the mosque he does not speak; he makes gestures or makes strange sounds. And a man came to this mosque years ago. He prayed Maghrib with us. And he started asking people, and he was hunched over to the ground as if he had pain in his back and could not raise his back. He appeared to the people with this appearance from the Maghrib prayer. The lesson came and the lesson ended, and the man was like this, hunched over to the ground, sitting, and we felt pain for him, a poor man who could not raise his back. Until the iqamah for the Isha prayer was called, and he prayed Isha, and the people dispersed, and he was in this state. Glory be to Allah, Allah has given him skin for this state. And a truthful, trustworthy man swore to me, saying: This man that we saw last night, he said: By Allah, he jumps like gazelles. On the wall, they call these walls, he said: I saw it with my own eyes.
There are some people, may Allah protect us from that, who have a sickness in asking. This is not something we should help with. Rather, what is befitting is that we advise him so that he gets rid of this sickness.