Charitable Institutions

• Is it permissible to pay the expiation for an oath (kaffarat al-yameen) in installments over five months by feeding ten poor people each month, through donating money to charitable organizations, knowing that the questioner is a university student?
• Is helping the needy online better than donating to charities, and is the reward lost if the recipient is a deceiver?
• Is it permissible to give جاریه (perpetual charity) in the form of money, paid to charitable organizations periodically?
• What is the ruling on donating to "Orphan's Day" if it involves reprehensible acts such as mixing of genders (اختلاط) and music, even though its purpose is to bring joy to orphaned children?
• Is it permissible to pay the Kaffarah for Ramadan for building a mosque, or for a sick person, or to help a poor person get married, in the event that one is unable to find sixty needy persons?
• Is it permissible to pay off the mother's debts with usurious money whose interest has been realized, knowing that it is usury, after the father's death?
• What is the ruling on money taken from LG and a government agency, if it is difficult to return the money to those who were harmed, and is it permissible to donate it as charity?
• Is one absolved of responsibility by depositing money in Faysal Bank and contenting oneself with utilizing half of the profits and donating the other half, due to the possibility of a portion of usury in the transactions?
• If it is impossible to return money to its owners, is it sufficient to donate it with the intention that it be an expiation for the sin? And is it permissible for a mother to complete the donation with the intention of expiation for her son’s action?
• Is donating for the construction of schools that teach worldly sciences (such as mathematics, sciences, and languages) considered an ongoing charity (ṣadaqah jāriyah) or beneficial knowledge from which a person benefits after their death, or is this restricted to religious sciences only?
• Which has greater reward: sponsoring orphans or helping a poor brother?
• Is a fully funded master's scholarship from "Banque Misr" considered suspicious, or is it part of the bank's social responsibility towards the community?
• Is it permissible to give ten men's shirts to a charity to distribute among the poor as an expiation for an oath?
• What is the ruling on purchasing real estate through Murabaha from Al Safa Bank, given the presence of a penalty clause (late payment fine) in the contract, and is it permissible to deal with them despite being certain of the ability to repay and avoid delay?
• What is incumbent upon one who has had sexual intercourse with his wife four times during the daytime in Ramadan over four consecutive days? And is it permissible to give the expiation (diyah) to a charity organization if circumstances only allow for making up the days and feeding the poor?
• What is the ruling on the pension and end-of-service bonus of the husband's father, knowing that he wants to repent and purify his wealth, and that a portion of the pension and bonus was deducted before he knew of the impermissibility of working in the bank? And does he take from it what was deducted before he knew, or does he give it all away?
• How can one get rid of money later discovered to be unlawful, what is the ruling on the portion of it that was disposed of before knowing its unlawfulness, and must it be compensated?
• What should the pharmacist do with the money he received for leasing his pharmacy license to a non-pharmacist, after he learned that this is impermissible according to Sharia? Should he return the money to the person, or pay khums on it, or donate all of it as charity?
• Is the money designated for building an orphanage, of which a part is paid by a female donor, lawful or unlawful if a portion of it is taken for the expenses of the orphans?
• Is it permissible to donate clothes such as trousers, pajamas, and underwear to women in the street who only wear trousers, blouses, and head coverings? If it is not permissible, is it then permissible to destroy these clothes if they are not suitable for other legitimate uses?
• Were Shams Tabrizi and Rumi real people, what information do the Sunni community have about Shams Tabrizi, can he be considered a sorcerer, and what is the relationship between the Dervishes and the Sufi order?
• What is the ruling on disposing of an amount of 5500 Saudi Riyals by mistakenly transferring it to a charitable organization after its owner requested to withdraw it from the bank, and is the one who did so absolved of sin if he is unable to return the amount to its owner?
• What is the ruling on giving the guardian of an orphan a receipt for a sum of money so he can spend it from a charitable store belonging to an association that sponsors orphans, knowing that the orphan is unaware of this and that the authorization came from the directors of the association?
• Is it permissible to take money from donations for the treatment of a volunteer, and is it permissible to offset that against his efforts and donations to the charity?