The Obligation of Performing Expiations as Allah Has Prescribed
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Question:
The questioner says: Is it possible for me to pay the expiation in the form of money instead of feeding the poor, meaning: providing food for the poor?
Answer:
The expiation varies: the expiation for an oath is ten poor people, each receiving half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg), which is one and a half kilograms. The expiation for zihar (likening one's wife to a forbidden relative) is sixty poor people. The expiation for intercourse during Ramadan is sixty poor people for one who is unable to free a slave or fast. Therefore, it is obligatory to pay the expiation as Allah has prescribed. If it is intercourse during Ramadan or zihar, the obligation in that case is to free a slave. If one is unable, he fasts two consecutive months. If he is unable, he feeds sixty poor people before touching his wife in the case of zihar. If one has intercourse during Ramadan, the expiation is upon him and the woman both: freeing a slave. If he is unable, he fasts two consecutive months, and she does the same. If they are both unable, they feed sixty poor people: he feeds sixty poor people, and she does the same. Each person receives half a sa', making sixty sa' in total for both of them, distributed among sixty poor people, with each poor person receiving one sa', half of which is from the husband and half from the wife, if they are unable to free a slave or fast. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good, O Shaykh.
The questioner says: Is it possible for me to pay the expiation in the form of money instead of feeding the poor, meaning: providing food for the poor?
Answer:
The expiation varies: the expiation for an oath is ten poor people, each receiving half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg), which is one and a half kilograms. The expiation for zihar (likening one's wife to a forbidden relative) is sixty poor people. The expiation for intercourse during Ramadan is sixty poor people for one who is unable to free a slave or fast. Therefore, it is obligatory to pay the expiation as Allah has prescribed. If it is intercourse during Ramadan or zihar, the obligation in that case is to free a slave. If one is unable, he fasts two consecutive months. If he is unable, he feeds sixty poor people before touching his wife in the case of zihar. If one has intercourse during Ramadan, the expiation is upon him and the woman both: freeing a slave. If he is unable, he fasts two consecutive months, and she does the same. If they are both unable, they feed sixty poor people: he feeds sixty poor people, and she does the same. Each person receives half a sa', making sixty sa' in total for both of them, distributed among sixty poor people, with each poor person receiving one sa', half of which is from the husband and half from the wife, if they are unable to free a slave or fast. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good, O Shaykh.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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