What is the ruling on giving zakah and an amount in excess of it, and does one give the poor person only what brings him to the threshold of nisab, or is he allowed to give him more than that?
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The questioner: If a person wants to give zakah to someone, is he allowed to give him enough to own the nisab, or is he allowed to give him money sufficient to start a business or something else? For example, in Jordan, let us say the nisab is one thousand dinars. Is he allowed to give him, for example, five thousand dinars to start a business and provide for himself? Is this from the zakah of wealth, or is he required to give him only enough to own the nisab?
The Shaykh: Does he have multiple nisabs?
The questioner: He is a man who has no money.
The Shaykh: Mmm.
The questioner: And I assumed, for example, that he gives him not just enough to support him for a month or two, but enough to start a business.
The Shaykh: Good.
The questioner: Am I allowed to give him more than the nisab from the zakah?
The Shaykh: I asked you a question.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Does he have multiple nisabs? Because the nisab by amount is two and a half! So if you want to look at the nisab by the amount of two and a half, this amount will not reach it. But if you have multiple nisabs, if you have multiple nisabs totaling one thousand dinars, you may give him in a second form.
The questioner: My Shaykh.
The Shaykh: Wait, may Allah guide you. Perhaps the answer will come to you now, and you will not say that the Shaykh is one of the people of unveiling. Or you may hasten to give out the zakah for years.
The questioner: No, suppose the one paying zakah has money with him. Suppose his zakah on his wealth is large, let us assume, and he wants to give to a person who receives zakah. Is he allowed to take enough to own the nisab, the one receiving zakah, or is he allowed to take what he needs to establish a business, for example? That is, the one paying zakah, suppose the zakah of his wealth is ten thousand dinars.
The Shaykh: I understand you now.
The student: He is asking whether it is prescribed.
The Shaykh: I understand you.
The questioner: He gave him five thousand from them. Is he allowed to give him that?
The Shaykh: That is, you notice that this poor person who was given five thousand by the rich man.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Becomes rich.
The questioner: Yes, that is, is he counted among the wealthy, yes?
The Shaykh: You notice this, so I raised the question, and I am telling you, yes.
The questioner: Perhaps.
The Shaykh: Because this person does not become rich until the lunar year has passed and he has the five thousand; then he becomes rich and zakah becomes due on him.
The questioner: What Allah willed, may Allah reward you with good, Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Welcome.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.
Another questioner: And may Allah reward with good the one who made him wealthy.
The Shaykh: Does he have multiple nisabs?
The questioner: He is a man who has no money.
The Shaykh: Mmm.
The questioner: And I assumed, for example, that he gives him not just enough to support him for a month or two, but enough to start a business.
The Shaykh: Good.
The questioner: Am I allowed to give him more than the nisab from the zakah?
The Shaykh: I asked you a question.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Does he have multiple nisabs? Because the nisab by amount is two and a half! So if you want to look at the nisab by the amount of two and a half, this amount will not reach it. But if you have multiple nisabs, if you have multiple nisabs totaling one thousand dinars, you may give him in a second form.
The questioner: My Shaykh.
The Shaykh: Wait, may Allah guide you. Perhaps the answer will come to you now, and you will not say that the Shaykh is one of the people of unveiling. Or you may hasten to give out the zakah for years.
The questioner: No, suppose the one paying zakah has money with him. Suppose his zakah on his wealth is large, let us assume, and he wants to give to a person who receives zakah. Is he allowed to take enough to own the nisab, the one receiving zakah, or is he allowed to take what he needs to establish a business, for example? That is, the one paying zakah, suppose the zakah of his wealth is ten thousand dinars.
The Shaykh: I understand you now.
The student: He is asking whether it is prescribed.
The Shaykh: I understand you.
The questioner: He gave him five thousand from them. Is he allowed to give him that?
The Shaykh: That is, you notice that this poor person who was given five thousand by the rich man.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Becomes rich.
The questioner: Yes, that is, is he counted among the wealthy, yes?
The Shaykh: You notice this, so I raised the question, and I am telling you, yes.
The questioner: Perhaps.
The Shaykh: Because this person does not become rich until the lunar year has passed and he has the five thousand; then he becomes rich and zakah becomes due on him.
The questioner: What Allah willed, may Allah reward you with good, Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Welcome.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.
Another questioner: And may Allah reward with good the one who made him wealthy.
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