Voluntary Giving
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Does informing another party about helping a needy family—which was initially done secretly—with the aim of increasing support for that family, cause the act to lose its status as a hidden charity and diminish its reward, especially if this would reveal previous assistance?
Is it permissible to make the intention of an ongoing charity (Sadaqah Jariyah), such as digging a well, for the deceased alone, or for her and for the living together?
Is it permissible for a charity sacrifice to be offered on behalf of the grandmother with the mother's money and the mother's intention, given the absence of the sacrificer at the time of slaughter despite his having purchased the animal and taken it to the abattoir?
What is the ruling on bequeathing half of the house to the sisters, and is it permissible to execute a will to buy a plot of land for the eldest sister from the remaining money, and what should be done regarding the will for an ongoing charity (Sadaqah Jariyah) from the house's rent?
Is deducting a monthly sum from one's salary for the poor—in fulfillment of a vow made after obtaining a job and parental approval of it—considered charity for the sake of Allah, or is it merely the fulfillment of a vow for which one is only rewarded for the act of fulfillment itself?
Is it permissible for a wife to give zakat to her poor and low-income husband?
What are the main differences between a gift (hediya) and a sadaqa (charity), and can gifts, especially monthly financial amounts given to needy relatives, or money given to parents which they then use for sadaqa, be considered an ongoing charity (sadaqa jariya) for which the original giver is rewarded?
What is the ruling on giving charity on behalf of a living and capable person?
How should one deal with incoming relief aid that is unsuitable for the targeted community, such as long, loose clothing that women cannot benefit from and which may be discarded as waste?
Is providing water to a poor family and offering a meter in their name considered an ongoing charity (Sadaqa Jariyah), or an ordinary charity, given that they pay their consumption bill monthly?
What is the ruling on placing charity in the mosque's donation box?
What is the ruling on giving charity in non-Muslim lands to non-Muslims and for building mosques?
Will a person who masturbated while fasting, knowing the impermissibility of his action, then completed his day refraining from food and drink with the intention of repentance, be rewarded? And is that considered half a day's fast?
Is it permissible to give charity from the money of a Christian father, even if he forbids it? What is the ruling on Zakat al-Fitr? Is Zakat obligatory on jewelry that contains forbidden items (crosses)? And what if it is difficult for the questioner to give Zakat due to her environment?
Is the one who gives charity obligated to investigate carefully when giving charity, and is he sinful if he places the money in the wrong place, meaning to someone who does not deserve it?
How can one balance pleasing his father, who demands all his money, with securing his own future, knowing that the father does not spend the money on the household, but rather on his well-off mother and his other children, and is what the father spends considered charity?
Is it permissible for a person to collect money claiming it is an ongoing charity (sadaqah jariyah) for a needy family, while he is in reality using it for himself due to financial hardship, with the intention of repaying it or giving it as charity later?
Is it permissible to use money designated for the poor and then replace it with other money, and is it permissible to change the intention of this money from charity for the poor to building a mosque?
Is a well-off Muslim obligated not to take charity, following the example of the Prophet (PBUH)?
Is one who intended to donate clothes, then wore them, sinful?
Is the monthly expenditure on the wife's mother considered a charity for which the doer is rewarded, if he intends it as charity and to bring happiness to his wife, given that the wife's mother is a widow and poor?
Is donating a fifth of one's salary, based on the verse "And to Allah belongs the fifth of what you acquire as spoils," considered a Bid‘ah (innovation)? Is it permissible to give this money to younger siblings to help the father with tuition fees? What are the proper channels for charitable giving?
Is it permissible to give charity with the intention of it being a charity on behalf of the giver and on behalf of others, such as believing men and believing women?
What is the ruling of Islam regarding giving charity from money that could not be collected from a debtor due to his inability, or from a small portion of the sale price that the buyer withheld without the seller's consent?