Voluntary Giving
810 questions
What are the best and most enduring types of waqf – ongoing charity – for those with limited and middle incomes, and are there trustworthy religious waqf institutions that can be contributed to by phone or bank transfer?
Is it permissible to count an uncollected loan as Zakat, especially if the original intention when giving it was Zakat?
Is it permissible to sell a share of a house that the father bequeathed as an endowment for the sake of Allah, and donate its price on his behalf?
Can Zakat be paid at a rate of 2.5% monthly from the salary instead of paying it in a lump sum at the end of the year due to working part-time, and are periodic charitable donations counted as part of Zakat?
What is the ruling on purchasing a commodity with money vowed for charity to a mosque, and would the profit generated from its sale belong to the one who gave the charity or to the mosque?
Can Zakat al-Mal be given to needy relatives such as a grandmother, mother, or the wife of a grandfather, when they have a provider? And what is the authenticity of the hadith "Give it to your closest relatives"? And what is the ruling concerning past years for which Zakat was paid without proper calculation?
Is the charity placed in a box at home counted on the day it is put in, or on the day the entire box is given out to the poor?
Is it permissible for the woman in charge of collecting donations for a charity project to deduct from the incoming donations the amount she personally donated in advance, while keeping the rest of the new donation with her instead of transferring it to the center, under the pretext of difficulty in transferring?
Does donating old clothes fall under the meaning of the noble verse: (And do not aim for what is bad to spend from it, while you would not take it yourselves except with closed eyes)?
Does informing the person on whom the expiatory charity (kaffarah) was spent diminish its reward, even if the purpose of informing him is to bring joy to him?
What is the ruling on the statement: "To those who boast about the multitude of their Hajj, Umrah, and circumambulations around the Kaaba: circumambulate around the poor, for you will surely find Allah with every poor person"?
Is it permissible for a brother to offer the vowed charity on behalf of his brother if the one who made the vow is not well-off?
Is it permissible for charitable organizations that collect money to buy winter blankets for the poor in cold regions to spend part of this money on buying other items these poor people need, knowing that the intention is the same?
Is Zakat due on half the gold if a full year has not passed, but only six months have elapsed?
Is it permissible to give Zakat al-mal to one's maternal cousin who was raised by his grandmother, is 31 years old, and has a very limited income that prevents him from getting married?
Is it permissible to complete the remaining amount for ‘Umrah from one's private money, or is it better to pay the amount of charity and postpone the ‘Umrah, knowing that the vow was to pay a thousand Egyptian pounds in charity, another thousand for the mosque, and to perform ‘Umrah upon recovering an amount of eight thousand Egyptian pounds, and four thousand of it have already been received?
Which is better: slaughtering with the intention of charity in my country or in countries that are poorer, knowing that its price in the poorer countries is much cheaper and easier than in my country?
What should I do after I donated money with the intention of perpetual charity (sadaqah jariyah) to help orphaned girls get married, and then learned that helping orphaned girls marry is not a form of perpetual charity?
Is it permissible to give Zakat al-Mal on behalf of a deceased father, with the intention of it being an ongoing charity (Sadaqah Jariyah), knowing that the father used to pay this money to specific poor people he knew?
Is there a sin upon the questioner for not giving her father the money from the personal loan directly, after she gave it to her brother, the agent, to deliver it to the father, and he refused to do so?
Is it permissible to donate to Shias in Iraq through charitable organizations, with the possibility that they might use these funds to strengthen their influence over Sunnis?
What is the ruling on Udhiyah for a student studying abroad who cannot find poor Muslims in the city where he studies, and is it permissible to donate one-third of the Udhiyah to the Islamic center?
Does a family that has lost its father, and has adult, employed, and well-off children, as well as other non-adult children, deserve charity?
Is it permissible for a Hashemite who is unable to work to take charity from people, even if he does not know whether it is zakat or not?