What is the value (cheap or expensive) that must be paid for Zakat al-Fitr and the expiatory payment (fidyah) for delaying the making up of missed Ramadan fasts when paying to charities, and is it permissible to pay the value of cheap rice, or must the value of expensive rice be paid?
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It is permissible to pay the value of expiation for an oath and the for delaying making up missed fasts in cash. The value should be an average of the different types of rice. Therefore, one is not obligated to pay the value of expensive rice, nor is it permissible to pay the value of poor quality rice, based on the Almighty's saying: "{of the average of what you feed your own families}" (Quran 5:89). The intended meaning of "average" is what is customary most of the time.
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