Charitable Institutions
547 questions
What is the ruling on the shroud used for the deceased father who died in an accident, and is the son obliged to pay the value of the shroud from his private money if the shroud is impermissible?
What actions can a son undertake to atone for his deceased father's error of taking something from an administration that cannot be returned, such as giving charity or fasting?
What is the jurisprudential ruling concerning the following: 1. The deduction by branches and general administration of a percentage from donations (charity, orphan sponsorship, general charity) to cover administrative expenses, and is there an upper limit for this deduction? 2. Is it necessary to inform each donor of the percentage deducted from their donation, and is it sufficient to inform through public announcements, or must individual notification be given, and is it sufficient to announce the deduction without specifying its amount? 3. The agreement of some branches with donation collectors on a percentage of the amount they collect, or giving them a percentage in addition to a monthly sum from the administrative expenses fund, and is this percentage considered part of the administrative percentage already deducted? 4. Are there Sharia controls for investing charity and Zakat funds other than those related to other people's money, and is it permissible to lend them with interest or deposit them in interest-bearing banks to earn interest, and is it permissible to lend them to employees or others as interest-free loans or educational loans for needy students? 5. Is it permissible to take bank interest (usurious) offered to us by some people, and are there specific channels for its expenditure, and is it permissible to accept donations from interest-bearing banks, people of the Book, and non-Muslims? 6. Is it permissible to issue a receipt for a larger amount than the actual value of in-kind donations to merchants to benefit from tax exemptions? 7. Deducting a percentage from the sponsorship amount of an orphan, student, or poor family to provide them with health, educational, and advocacy care, and is it necessary to inform sponsors of the deducted percentage, and is it sufficient to inform through public announcements or must individual notification be given, and is there a limit to this percentage, and is it permissible to establish an internal system that includes penalties for those who fail to attend activities (such as freezing sponsorship or a financial penalty or replacing the sponsored individual), and must the sponsor be informed when the sponsored individual is replaced? 8. Is it permissible to give prizes to outstanding orphans and students or competition winners from Zakat funds? 9. Is it permissible to give a portion of in-kind materials, when distributed to the poor, to the institution's employees, especially the poor among them, and is it permissible to disburse amounts to employees as bonuses or overtime pay? 10. What is the jurisprudential ruling concerning the official in charge in the event of an error in making a financial decision that leads to the waste of money, or the administration's negligence in procedures for preserving money, leading to its loss, disappearance, or theft? 11. Is it permissible to retain orphan sponsorship amounts received without specifying a particular orphan as a reserve for existing orphan sponsorships in case their sponsor ceases, to ensure the continuity of sponsorship? 12. Is it permissible to replace cash sponsorship with buying in-kind materials of equal value and distributing them to some families to avoid spending them on undesirable things, and is it permissible to distribute available in-kind materials to sponsored individuals in exchange for the cash sponsorship amount, and is it permissible to use in-kind materials for collective Iftars for benefactors with the aim of collecting donations or spending from the institution's funds for this purpose, and can they be offered to institution guests or a portion consumed in administrative meetings for employees or volunteers?
Is it permissible for a woman to give from her own money to her orphaned sisters without her husband's knowledge, if the husband is well-off and does not help his wife's needy relatives?
Is it permissible to spend a portion of Zakat al-Mal (obligatory charity on wealth) on a charitable society, established in the name of the people of a specific town, that provides funeral transportation services and symbolic-fee medical examinations for its members and the residents of the area where the society is located?
Is it permissible to pay the Zakat and financial obligations of my deceased father from his estate, and would that discharge him from what he failed to perform during his lifetime?
How is the estate of a deceased husband distributed among the children, and what should the wife do with the eldest, mature son whom she fears will squander his share of the inheritance?
Is spending on one's wife and children considered among the sadaqat (charitable giving) for which the reward reaches seven hundredfold, and if not, what is its reward?
What is the ruling on a goat drinking from a municipal water line without a meter, while paying a sum of money as charity instead of the price of the water?
What should I do with in-kind gifts I receive from usurious banks due to my work as an accountant, knowing that I cannot refuse them and cannot donate them as charity because they are recreational gifts that are difficult for the poor to benefit from? Should I dispose of them by destruction, or donate their monetary value and then benefit from them, or benefit from them while trying to conceal the bank's logo?
Is it permissible to receive aid from a fund financed by the interest (ribā) of loans provided to workers, knowing that this fund offers assistance to those in need?
Is it permissible for a charitable endowment (Waqf Khairi) for living parents—which is a monthly deduction from one's salary—to be a single sum with the intention of dividing it between them, or must it be two separate sums, one for each of them?
How can I rid myself of forty expiations for oaths (kaffarat yameen)? Is it permissible to feed one poor family (four people) and consider it as one expiation? And is it permissible to donate a sum of money to charitable organizations that feed orphans in order to discharge these expiations?
Am I entitled to a percentage of the profits from the sale of a plot of land that I purchased for a charity I worked with, given that I made efforts to increase its market value, and knowing that my primary role was managing the da'wah and charitable aspects, not the investment aspect?
What is the ruling on not returning the greeting of peace to a neighbor, as a form of discipline, because he mocked me and called me an imbecile?
What is the ruling on benefiting from agricultural land inherited by sons from their fathers, knowing that their sixth grandfather usurped it from a man he killed, and is it permissible for them to give charity from its proceeds when they have no other source of livelihood?
What should a repentant person do who stole two electric fans from a school and wants to return them, but not to the same school for fear of losing them, especially since the school might not need them?
Is the construction of water fountains in a public school or mosques affiliated with the Ministry of Awqaf considered Sadaqah Jariyah (ongoing charity), or does their affiliation with governmental bodies prevent that? And what is the best Sadaqah Jariyah that can be performed if this option is not suitable?
Is it permissible to give the money taken from an association without payment as charity to those who did not receive their share from the association, or to the poor, or what should be done?
What is the ruling on the salaries the husband used to receive from his work in a shop that sells music tapes, and what is the ruling on the aid the family currently receives, part of which is funded by the old salary? Is it permissible to change the intention of giving money to the mother from charity to getting rid of suspicious funds?
Is it permissible for me to give charity from old usurious money that my mother took from the bank, without her knowledge, and is her knowledge a condition for Allah to accept [the charity] and forgive her sin?
Is it permissible to obligate a university student to allocate a portion of their salary to the needy after their graduation and employment, in exchange for a charitable organization undertaking the payment of their tuition fees?
Is it permissible to take money from charity boxes designated for the poor and give it to needy families without the knowledge of the charitable organization, knowing that the organization requires submitting an application to receive aid?
How can one repent from taking aluminum without permission from a public company that has merged with others, and should the money be returned at the past or current price, or should it be given as charity?