Is the fatwa permitting the change of the material of zakat al-fitr according to the poor person's need a fatwa based on independent legal reasoning, or is there a text for it?
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The questioner : Shaykh, if you would permit, if you had moved now from the benefit of the poor person regarding wheat and the like to food that suits the poor person, did this mean there was an existing text, or was it based on independent legal reasoning?
The Shaykh : What is it?
The questioner : When you moved from the zakat of wheat for the poor person, since wheat is not eaten by many people now, or barley, so you said now, meaning instead of wheat, rice which suits the...
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The questioner : Was this based on independent legal reasoning, or is there a text?
The Shaykh : It is based on derivation, not on a text, but on jurisprudence.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Which we discussed in the session after the meal, after lunch.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Have you seen, if the owner of a barley farm wanted to give his zakat from barley, and he knows that this barley, if he presents it to the poor people of his land, they will not benefit from it at all, do you think this is the intention of the Lawgiver regarding zakat with barley, from barley?
The questioner: No.
The Shaykh : What is it.
The questioner : What suits the benefit of the poor person.
The Shaykh : Okay, by text or...
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Say yes, no.
The questioner : I do not know.
The Shaykh : We know.
The questioner: Go ahead.
The Shaykh : We said, we said, we do not know.
The questioner : The alternative.
The student : The alternative, so that the benefit of the Wise Lawgiver is realized in giving the poor person what benefits him.
The Shaykh : What is it?
The questioner : When you moved from the zakat of wheat for the poor person, since wheat is not eaten by many people now, or barley, so you said now, meaning instead of wheat, rice which suits the...
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The questioner : Was this based on independent legal reasoning, or is there a text?
The Shaykh : It is based on derivation, not on a text, but on jurisprudence.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Which we discussed in the session after the meal, after lunch.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Have you seen, if the owner of a barley farm wanted to give his zakat from barley, and he knows that this barley, if he presents it to the poor people of his land, they will not benefit from it at all, do you think this is the intention of the Lawgiver regarding zakat with barley, from barley?
The questioner: No.
The Shaykh : What is it.
The questioner : What suits the benefit of the poor person.
The Shaykh : Okay, by text or...
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Say yes, no.
The questioner : I do not know.
The Shaykh : We know.
The questioner: Go ahead.
The Shaykh : We said, we said, we do not know.
The questioner : The alternative.
The student : The alternative, so that the benefit of the Wise Lawgiver is realized in giving the poor person what benefits him.
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