Regarding the payment of salaries to the heads of charitable associations from zakah funds.
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But after I mentioned this detail, I said: Why not have this salary come from their own pockets, rather than from the purse of the poor and the needy?
The questioner : How from their pockets?
The Shaykh : From their pockets.
The questioner : From their pockets; the members?
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : No, it is not from their pockets.
The Shaykh : I am telling you: Why not have this? As for this...
The questioner : This is from the money that...
The Shaykh : My brother, understand me; I am not inciting; why not have this come from their pockets rather than from the purse and the money of the poor and the needy? So I have given you the answer—may Allah bless you—if the state is not the one responsible for collecting zakah funds from all the known categories in the Sunnah, and then it has not employed the employees, this is opening the door to earning money in the name of zakah, and putting it into the pockets of people who are not poor or in need. The answer is the answer, and nothing changes from it at all.
The questioner : Are the workers on it the collectors appointed by the Imam?
The Shaykh : They are the *su'at* (collectors), yes.
Another questioner : There is no Imam now.
The Shaykh : *Jubba* (collectors) is a modern term, whereas the term that came in the Sunnah is *su'at*, the plural of *sa'i*.
The questioner : Yes, I do.
The questioner : Here, I mean, it is not the ruler, okay; he does not employ; is there no Muslim ruler who employs a Shaykh?
The Shaykh : May Allah forgive you! And to whom do you say: "There is not"?
The questioner : I mean, the zakah committees that the government establishes; is this considered the same government that establishes the zakah committees?
The Shaykh : Do not try to justify what you are in, but rather try to get out of it.
The questioner : Getting out of it, yes, ... it frees five hundred families ...
The Shaykh :[Al-Ma'idah 5:105] ، .
The questioner : How from their pockets?
The Shaykh : From their pockets.
The questioner : From their pockets; the members?
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : No, it is not from their pockets.
The Shaykh : I am telling you: Why not have this? As for this...
The questioner : This is from the money that...
The Shaykh : My brother, understand me; I am not inciting; why not have this come from their pockets rather than from the purse and the money of the poor and the needy? So I have given you the answer—may Allah bless you—if the state is not the one responsible for collecting zakah funds from all the known categories in the Sunnah, and then it has not employed the employees, this is opening the door to earning money in the name of zakah, and putting it into the pockets of people who are not poor or in need. The answer is the answer, and nothing changes from it at all.
The questioner : Are the workers on it the collectors appointed by the Imam?
The Shaykh : They are the *su'at* (collectors), yes.
Another questioner : There is no Imam now.
The Shaykh : *Jubba* (collectors) is a modern term, whereas the term that came in the Sunnah is *su'at*, the plural of *sa'i*.
The questioner : Yes, I do.
The questioner : Here, I mean, it is not the ruler, okay; he does not employ; is there no Muslim ruler who employs a Shaykh?
The Shaykh : May Allah forgive you! And to whom do you say: "There is not"?
The questioner : I mean, the zakah committees that the government establishes; is this considered the same government that establishes the zakah committees?
The Shaykh : Do not try to justify what you are in, but rather try to get out of it.
The questioner : Getting out of it, yes, ... it frees five hundred families ...
The Shaykh :
O you who have believed, upon you is [responsibility for] yourselves. Those who have gone astray will not harm you when you have been guided
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا عَلَيْكُمْ أَنْفُسَكُمْ لَا يَضُرُّكُمْ مَنْ ضَلَّ إِذَا اهْتَدَيْتُمْBegin with yourself, then with those who depend on you.
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