Voluntary Giving
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What is the ruling on a wife spending on the household and its expenses after her husband has ceased providing for her and has financially favored his other wife, and is this spending considered Sadaqah (charity) or Zakat?
Is it more virtuous to pay off outstanding government debts (such as electricity and water bills) or to give charity?
Is sacrificing with the intention of thanking Allah, or repelling an affliction, or removing an affliction, not legislated? And is sacrificing not an act of worship except in cases of vows (nadhr), sacrificial offerings during Hajj/Umrah (hady), 'aqiqah, and udhiyah? And is anything other than that not permissible except with the intention of charity?
What is the ruling on dedicating (waqf) property to males, generation after generation, to the exclusion of females, such that the inheritance reverts to the male cousins in the event of the original family line having no male descendants, and how is the inheritance to be handled after the death of the endower?
What is the interpretation of (the upper hand is better than the lower hand)?
Is it permissible to give the expiation for an oath (kaffarat al-yamin) to a non-Muslim?
Is it permissible to accept sadaqah for minor, well-cared-for orphans, and can it be given to other needy individuals if the answer is no?
What things were forbidden to the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace?
Is it reprehensible to give charity to acquaintances such as the schoolmaids of one's children or the building's doorman, knowing that they might show favoritism to the giver and their children?
Is it permissible to give zakat to a sister who is married to a husband unemployed due to his engagement in da'wah (Islamic proselytizing), which renders them in need, and does this discourage him from earning a living?
Is it permissible for this poor widow, who is 70 years old and has an accumulated amount of money from zakat and what her husband left behind, to give away the surplus money beyond her needs in charity, or should she save it for the future since she has no one to support her?
Is donating a Qur’an considered an ongoing charity for the deceased, and is the deceased rewarded for the recipient’s recitation from this Qur’an, knowing that it is not permissible to dedicate the reward of recitation to the deceased?
Who are the People of Purity (Ahl al-Safāʾ)?
Which is more deserving of a donation: completing the construction of an uncle's house or building a minaret for the mosque?
Which is better: feeding one poor person every day in Ramadan, or distributing food to thirty poor people on the twenty-seventh day of the month?
Is it permissible for Quran memorization centers to request financial support from merchants in exchange for placing their names on the center's papers as a form of advertisement?
Is it better to give money in charity to the poor and needy, or to gift it to relatives and friends?
Does informing a friend for the purpose of encouraging her to help, and presenting the case of a needy family to collect donations, fall under the category of reproach and harm that invalidates charity?
Is it permissible for my wife to retract her donation to the youth center and redirect it to the Islamic school, after she intended to donate to the school but thought the donee was the school, and was I wrong to refuse to deliver the check to the youth center?
What is the ruling on giving products containing the letter "E" - which are forbidden to consume - to poor and needy Muslims? And does this contradict the Almighty's saying: "O you who have believed, spend from the good things which you have earned and from that which We have produced for you from the earth. And do not aim for what is bad to spend from it, while you would not take it yourselves except with closed eyes. And know that Allah is Free of need and Praiseworthy"? And is it permissible to give them to poor non-Muslims?
Is the custom of distributing one's first salary among one's relatives a permissible practice or an innovation?
Which is more deserving of a donation: completing the construction of a poor maternal uncle's house, or building a minaret for a mosque in one's hometown?
What is the ruling on giving all of one's money in charity to a man who supports a family and owns no money, and what is the ruling if he is in debt, and how do we reconcile this with Allah Almighty's saying: {and prefer [them] over themselves, even though they are in privation}?
Is it permissible for a person to give charity to the poor and the needy while his mother is in debt and struggling to repay it, and is it permissible to give her from the charity money to pay off her debt, or is it better to divide the charity between her and the poor and the needy, knowing that he is in dire need of the reward for charity?