Charitable Institutions
547 questions
Is it permissible for a Muslim to donate to Western charities?
Is my monthly commitment of a quarter of my salary for a good cause, given other financial obligations and an upcoming marriage, considered extravagance or reliance upon Allah?
What is the ruling on the reward (car) I received from a charity after donating to it, knowing that the two Shaykhs Ibn Baz and Al-Qaradawi prohibited rewards on purchases?
What is the ruling on stomach bypass surgeries that aim to accelerate digestion and reduce weight in obese individuals?
What is the ruling on joining a charitable society for distributing sadaqat?
Is it permissible, Islamically, to pay university expenses and fees that include donations—and are considered a routine, perfunctory procedure for adding a doctor's name to a thesis—from the earnings of forbidden banks?
Is it permissible this year to send a sum of money that used to be given out annually as food for orphans to a children's cancer hospital, knowing that it was a commitment and not a vow?
Is it permissible to collect the 'Eidiya' (gifts of money given on Eid) of a deceased child and distribute them to orphans, and does this child need our supplication despite being a Muslim child promised Paradise?
What is the ruling on donating charity funds to charitable organizations that deposit their money in interest-bearing accounts? Is it forbidden to donate to them, or is there a detailed explanation? Does the ruling differ if most of these organizations in the donor's country are similar, or if there is an intermingling that makes it difficult to distinguish between them? Does the ruling differ if the donor suspects this but is not certain? Is the donor deprived of the reward for charity if he knows about this? Or does he receive the reward along with the sin?
Is it permissible to spend the money received from the orphan society on household expenses for my younger sisters (under 13 years old), given that my deceased father's salary has stopped and we have no income?
Is it permissible to receive bank interest and spend it on charitable projects such as lighting up villages, supporting hospitals, and assisting young people with marriage?
Is it permissible to give a sum of money to a person whose trustworthiness is unknown, for the purpose of building a mosque in India?
What is the correct wording for the intention of donating a charitable gift (sadaqa) on behalf of a deceased mother to ensure she receives the reward? What are the procedures that guarantee the reward reaches her? Is it permissible to dedicate a religious scholarly book as an ongoing charity (sadaqa jariya) for the mother's soul? Is it permissible to disclose this to the recipient? Is it permissible to write "For the sake of Allah Almighty on behalf of so-and-so, son/daughter of so-and-so" on the book?
Is it permissible to pay the vowed offering collectively for past and future months, given that the one who made the vow pledged to donate the excess of his salary over 5000 Riyals to a specific charitable cause, and he was accepted for a job with a salary of 5500 Riyals?
Is it permissible to use money designated for orphans' charity ($15,000) to complete the purchase amount of a house for the family, given that buying a house achieves stability for the sake of the religion in the new country of residence?
Is it permissible to own a car won in a raffle organized by a Christian charity, especially after disposing of the car and giving a portion of the money to someone else?
Is it permissible for a donor to reclaim land he donated to the Ministry of Health 14 years ago, on which no hospital has been built yet?
Is it permissible to adopt the fatwa of Sheikh Ibn Jibreen that permits the recruitment of laborers and agreeing with them upon a percentage of the profit in construction work, knowing that there are other fatwas that prohibit that, and considering this a permissible difference of opinion among scholars?
Is it permissible to pay salaries to those in charge of a charitable project that collects donations through viewing permissible advertisements, and is this money lawful or unlawful, and if unlawful, where should it be directed?
How sound is the Hadith: "Allah gives the worldly life to those He loves and to those He does not love, but He does not give the religion except to those He loves"?
Is it permissible to donate money taken unlawfully from the government for the construction of a mosque or other charitable projects, if returning it through official channels would expose the individual to danger? And would such an act absolve one of sin?
Is the husband's work in pharmaceutical promotion, distributing free samples and promotional gifts, and taking these items from other companies for personal use or distributing them to relatives, permissible in Islamic law? And is what the wife does by giving charity from household expenses without her husband's knowledge with the intention of purifying his money permissible in Islamic law? Will the husband be rewarded for it? And is it permissible to use it for building a mosque?
Is it permissible for a woman to give charity from the financial aid she receives after the death of her husband, and to buy necessities such as computer disks and flash drives, knowing that she has four children and the inheritance has not yet been distributed due to the death certificate not having been issued?
Am I allowed to take the charity money given to me with the intention of giving it to a poor family, and use it to pay off my debts, knowing that the donor has authorized me to dispose of it freely, and that I am in debt and my salary barely covers the necessary living expenses?