Are non-Muslim poor people given from charity, whether it is obligatory or voluntary?
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The questioner : ... from charity?
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : ... non-Muslim poor people are given from charity?
The Shaykh : Do you mean obligatory charity or voluntary charity?
The questioner : Voluntary, for example, money collected from the mosque.
The Shaykh : May Allah forgive you, answer the question?
The questioner : You don't know if it is charity or...
The Shaykh : Answer the question—may Allah guide you—answer the question. You are not being excessive with your memory...
Another questioner : I don't know, is it charity or zakah?
The Shaykh : My brother, do you know or do you not know? Answer the question. The charity you mentioned, does it mean obligatory or voluntary? Do you know or do you not know? That is a second matter. Do not wander in the answer. If you know, say so. If you do not know, say: I do not know.
The questioner : I do not know, is it charity or zakah?
The Shaykh : I am now with you, do you know? So I say: if it is obligatory, it is not permissible. If it is obligatory, it is not given to non-Muslims. But if it is not obligatory, but rather voluntary, then it is...
The questioner : I do not know, we stood at the mosque door and collected something.
The Shaykh : This is a problem.
The questioner : We benefit, I gave you twenty dinars, I do not know if it is zakah or charity.
The Shaykh : I cannot benefit you if you do not know what it is and I am far from you, no... I am unable to benefit you by saying it is obligatory or voluntary. You should know if it is voluntary or obligatory.
Another questioner : Everyone comes out and puts... I tell him: is it charity or obligatory? This is difficult!!
The questioner : If you want to establish a zakah committee with us, a box for zakah and a box for charity, put zakah here, put charity here; so that he puts it...
The Shaykh : The problem with the associations called today charitable associations; that those in charge of them are not poor, they are not scholars.
The questioner : Two hundred and fifty committees.
The Shaykh : And therefore they act as they see fit; like the old women, you hear from them fatwas for which Allah has not sent down authority!!
The questioner : The problem... zakah, O our Shaykh... they do strange things, strange things they do with people's money... things, and perhaps they disobey Allah (Mighty and Majestic) with people's zakah while they do not know what they are doing!!
The Shaykh : And like this exactly are those who collect money to build mosques.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Do you see? They spend it in other than the way of Allah, and they are trustees of it to build a mosque in which the name of Allah is mentioned, so you find decorations, and among the decorations... in the mosques, with the money of whom? The donors. This is a verification of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him)Sahih al-Bukhari 59, and therefore I say to our friend who insists on the question, I insist on the answer that he withdraws immediately from.
The questioner : No, no, I am sitting... if Allah wills, he has been waiting for this session for a long time to hear from you, otherwise the man is in confusion about his matter.
Another questioner : ... I bought a car, I drive a taxi with a pocket of twenty dinars... the money...
The questioner : Shaykh, I mean the situation of people is very, very, very difficult...
The Shaykh :[Al-Ma'idah 5:105] .
The questioner : Then we have another matter in another way; we used to take the food that people had left over, the leftovers of food, now no one brings it except me, he has to lean on the containers...
Another questioner : ... food for the poor, by the permission of Allah, and you will be rewarded with a great reward with Allah.
The questioner : It is true, but I have a family, and I have a house, and I have this...
The Shaykh : If someone else said it...
The questioner : Dr. 'Umar al-Ashqar asked me about the matter, he did not say this, ... there are several questions before he raised this, Dr. Salah al-Khalidi and 'Umar al-Ashqar asked, and perhaps Dr. al-Zarqa and several doctors asked, so he said: since he is devoting himself to the committee and has no other work, there is no harm in him taking a salary.
The Shaykh : Now I am silent.
... ... ... .
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : ... non-Muslim poor people are given from charity?
The Shaykh : Do you mean obligatory charity or voluntary charity?
The questioner : Voluntary, for example, money collected from the mosque.
The Shaykh : May Allah forgive you, answer the question?
The questioner : You don't know if it is charity or...
The Shaykh : Answer the question—may Allah guide you—answer the question. You are not being excessive with your memory...
Another questioner : I don't know, is it charity or zakah?
The Shaykh : My brother, do you know or do you not know? Answer the question. The charity you mentioned, does it mean obligatory or voluntary? Do you know or do you not know? That is a second matter. Do not wander in the answer. If you know, say so. If you do not know, say: I do not know.
The questioner : I do not know, is it charity or zakah?
The Shaykh : I am now with you, do you know? So I say: if it is obligatory, it is not permissible. If it is obligatory, it is not given to non-Muslims. But if it is not obligatory, but rather voluntary, then it is...
The questioner : I do not know, we stood at the mosque door and collected something.
The Shaykh : This is a problem.
The questioner : We benefit, I gave you twenty dinars, I do not know if it is zakah or charity.
The Shaykh : I cannot benefit you if you do not know what it is and I am far from you, no... I am unable to benefit you by saying it is obligatory or voluntary. You should know if it is voluntary or obligatory.
Another questioner : Everyone comes out and puts... I tell him: is it charity or obligatory? This is difficult!!
The questioner : If you want to establish a zakah committee with us, a box for zakah and a box for charity, put zakah here, put charity here; so that he puts it...
The Shaykh : The problem with the associations called today charitable associations; that those in charge of them are not poor, they are not scholars.
The questioner : Two hundred and fifty committees.
The Shaykh : And therefore they act as they see fit; like the old women, you hear from them fatwas for which Allah has not sent down authority!!
The questioner : The problem... zakah, O our Shaykh... they do strange things, strange things they do with people's money... things, and perhaps they disobey Allah (Mighty and Majestic) with people's zakah while they do not know what they are doing!!
The Shaykh : And like this exactly are those who collect money to build mosques.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Do you see? They spend it in other than the way of Allah, and they are trustees of it to build a mosque in which the name of Allah is mentioned, so you find decorations, and among the decorations... in the mosques, with the money of whom? The donors. This is a verification of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him)
When the power or authority comes in the hands of unfit persons, then wait for the Hour (Doomsday.)
إذا وُسِّدَ الأمر إلى غير أهله فانتظر الساعةThe questioner : No, no, I am sitting... if Allah wills, he has been waiting for this session for a long time to hear from you, otherwise the man is in confusion about his matter.
Another questioner : ... I bought a car, I drive a taxi with a pocket of twenty dinars... the money...
The questioner : Shaykh, I mean the situation of people is very, very, very difficult...
The Shaykh :
upon you is [responsibility for] yourselves. Those who have gone astray
عَلَيْكُمْ أَنْفُسَكُمْ لَا يَضُرُّكُمْ مَنْ ضَلَّThe questioner : Then we have another matter in another way; we used to take the food that people had left over, the leftovers of food, now no one brings it except me, he has to lean on the containers...
Another questioner : ... food for the poor, by the permission of Allah, and you will be rewarded with a great reward with Allah.
The questioner : It is true, but I have a family, and I have a house, and I have this...
The Shaykh : If someone else said it...
The questioner : Dr. 'Umar al-Ashqar asked me about the matter, he did not say this, ... there are several questions before he raised this, Dr. Salah al-Khalidi and 'Umar al-Ashqar asked, and perhaps Dr. al-Zarqa and several doctors asked, so he said: since he is devoting himself to the committee and has no other work, there is no harm in him taking a salary.
The Shaykh : Now I am silent.
... ... ... .
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