Fatwas Archive

Question: Two men: one of them has an inheritance belonging to the other and refuses to hand it over; the other has a small amount of cultivated land.This latter man wishes to hand over what he has from the farmland...

Question: A poor student of knowledge owns books; given that, is it permissible for him to take zakat or not?

Question: Is it permissible to purchase books of knowledge with zakat money and distribute these books to students—among whom are the children of the wealthy and among whom are Hāshimites?

Question: May a man spend from his zakat on a foundling (laqīṭ) who is under his care?

Question: Begging has greatly increased in our time, and it is possible that many of those people have taken begging as a profession, and that he takes zakat and begs for it while being well-off. Is it permissible to give...

Question: How much is a poor person to be given from zakat?

Question: Is there any obligatory right in wealth besides zakat, or not?

Question: A poor person may appoint as his agent a man to whom zakat is not lawful and authorize him regarding what he takes of zakat; this man then takes a great deal of zakat as an agent and appropriates...

Question: A man had one hundred sheep, then died before a zakat year was completed, leaving two sons. How should they act with respect to zakat when the year falls due?

The questioner added: Is zakat paid before deducting the selling expenses, or after?