For example, if a person vows that if he is blessed with children, he will offer three sacrificial animals, but he did not specify whether to give them to the poor, saying, for example, “If I am blessed with such and such, I will slaughter such and such.”
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The questioner : All right, for example, if a person vows that if he is blessed, for example, with children, he will offer, for example, three, for example, sacrificial animals, and he did not—because this question has come up on the program more than once—but he did not specify whether to give them to the poor, saying, for example, “If I am blessed with such and such, I will slaughter such and such.”
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Is it permissible for him to eat from them, or is it obligatory for him to distribute them all?
The Shaykh : In this case, he is asked about his intention.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Sometimes, a man intends by this vow only to express joy and happiness.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Just as one expresses joy and happiness for a newborn and slaughters a sacrificial animal for him.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : The ruling on this vow is that it is a permissible vow.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : This means that he is given the choice between fulfilling it and eating from it himself, along with his family, relatives, and neighbors, or paying the expiation for an oath.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Because this is the rule regarding a permissible vow: a person is given the choice between fulfilling what he vowed and paying the expiation for an oath.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : I hope my brothers who hold fast to the Arabic language will not criticize me for inserting “between” here, between the conjunction and the word it connects.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Because every occasion has its own appropriate expression. And as for the one who vowed that if Allah blesses him with a child, he will slaughter a sheep, for example.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : If his intention is to slaughter it as thanks to Allah (Mighty and Majestic) for this blessing, then it is treated like charity, and it is to be fed to the poor and the needy.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, that is correct.
The questioner : May Allah reward you.
The second question is from the soldier Husayn Shahab al-Hamd from the Syrian Arab Army, in which he says, “I ask your noble self, from the side of reading the Noble Qur'an, because I…”
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Is it permissible for him to eat from them, or is it obligatory for him to distribute them all?
The Shaykh : In this case, he is asked about his intention.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Sometimes, a man intends by this vow only to express joy and happiness.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Just as one expresses joy and happiness for a newborn and slaughters a sacrificial animal for him.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : The ruling on this vow is that it is a permissible vow.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : This means that he is given the choice between fulfilling it and eating from it himself, along with his family, relatives, and neighbors, or paying the expiation for an oath.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Because this is the rule regarding a permissible vow: a person is given the choice between fulfilling what he vowed and paying the expiation for an oath.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : I hope my brothers who hold fast to the Arabic language will not criticize me for inserting “between” here, between the conjunction and the word it connects.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Because every occasion has its own appropriate expression. And as for the one who vowed that if Allah blesses him with a child, he will slaughter a sheep, for example.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : If his intention is to slaughter it as thanks to Allah (Mighty and Majestic) for this blessing, then it is treated like charity, and it is to be fed to the poor and the needy.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, that is correct.
The questioner : May Allah reward you.
The second question is from the soldier Husayn Shahab al-Hamd from the Syrian Arab Army, in which he says, “I ask your noble self, from the side of reading the Noble Qur'an, because I…”