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Issues and Questions Gems from the

Zakat, Umra, Settlement Money in Car Accidents Holy Qur’an

n By Dr Muzammil H. Siddiqi

. Is it allowed to give Za-
kat money to a Muslim
Qwho is very poor but is
not very religious? He does not
offer prayers regularly, nor does
he observe fasting
in Ramadan.
A. Primarily
the Zakat is to help
the poor and needy
Muslims. It can also
be given to “those
whose hearts are
to be reconciled to Islam.” (Surah From the translation by
al-Tawbah 9:60). This means that Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss)
even a non-Muslim can receive
some Zakat, if there is a hope that About the translator:
he/she can be guided to the truth of Muhammad Asad, Leopold
Islam. Similarly, if you think that by Weiss, was born of Jewish parents
giving Zakat, you can win the heart in Livow, Austria (later Poland) in
of a misguided Muslim and bring 1900, and at the age of 22 made his
him back to Islam, then Zakat can first visit to the Middle East. He
be given to him. According to some later became an outstanding for-
jurists such people also come in the eign correspondent for the Fran-
category of “mu’allafutul qulub”. You my profit sharing that I have not payments. all this was bought when he was furter Zeitung, and after years of
help him with Zakat and remind withdrawn? I have earned this working in the Middle East. Is he devoted study became one of the
him to follow his religion. Perhaps profit sharing for the last five years Q. What is the concept of eligible for Zakat? Should he sell leading Muslim scholars of our
by this good treatment he will come in certificates, not in the form of ‘Umra? How did it start, and what his household things to support age. His translation of the Holy
back to Islam. Very often we Mus- money. is its purpose? his family? Please advise. Qur’an is one of the most lucid
lims give da’wah to others, but we do A. If these certificates are cash- A. The word ‘umrah means A. The Shari’ah has allowed and well-referenced works in this
not take care of their physical and able and you have the option to cash visiting or attending. ‘Umra is an Zakat for the Fuqara’ and Masakin category, dedicated to li-qawmin
financial needs. Poverty sometimes them any time, then they are like act of worship. It is mentioned in (see Surah al-Tawbah 9:60). Accord- yatafakkaroo (people who think).
pushes people to neglect their faith. cash and you have to pay Zakat on the Qur’an. Allah says, “Perform ing to jurists Fuqara’ are those who
The Prophet - peace be upon him them, provided their value reaches the Hajj and ‘Umra for Allah… (al- do not have anything and Masakin Chapter 80, ‘Abasa, Verses
- called some poverty “an evil that the Nisab of Zakat. You should pay Baqarah 2:196) The Prophet - peace are those who have some things, 1-10
sometime make people forget Allah” Zakat on them for all the past five be upon him - performed the ‘Umra but they are not sufficient for their [ 1 ] He frowned and turned
(faqran munsiyan, see al-Tirmidhi, years also. The ratio of Zakat will be after the treaty of Hudaibiyah and needs. In Surah al-Kahf, Allah called away because the blind man ap-
Hadith no. 2228). 2.5%. he explained to people how to do a group of people Masakin (plural proached him.
However, we should also be it. It is to enter the city of Makkah of Miskin) although they owned a Yet for all thou didst know, [O
careful in giving Zakat. We should Q. I have a loan of $115,000 with Ihram with the intention of boat. See al-Kahf 18:79. Muhammad,] he might perhaps
not give Zakat to anyone who may on my home which I am servic- ‘Umrah and then to perform Tawaf The Shari’ah also considers the have grown in purity, or have been
use it to indulge in sins or to rebel ing monthly. I have some cash and around the Ka’bah and Sa’y between changed conditions of time and reminded [of the truth], and helped
against Allah and His deen. jewelry worth over $10,000. If I the mountains of Safa and Marwa. place. The needs of people change by this reminder.
just look at the cash and jewelry, This was the ancient practice from according to the standards of time Now as for him who believes
Q. Is it Halal to receive settle- I have to pay Zakat. If I consider the time of Prophet Ibrahim - peace and place. The living standards of himself to be self-sufficient [ 2 ] – to
ment money from a car accident in the home loan, then I am under a be upon him. Its purpose is to allow the people have changed very much him didst thou give thy whole atten-
which one is injured? debt of around $110,000. Is Zakat Muslims to visit the city of Makkah now. What was considered a lux- tion, although thou art not account-
A. Yes, it is permissible to make obligatory on me in this situation? during the year whenever possible. ury at one time is now a necessity. able for his failure to attain to pu-
claim and to receive settlement A. If you pay off your $10,000 It is to keep the Ka’bah visited not Thus TV, refrigerator or telephone rity; but as for him who came unto
money for personal injury or prop- cash towards your loan, then there only during the Hajj but to keep it are now common things in many thee full of eagerness and in awe [of
erty loss due to auto accidents. One is no Zakat on you. But if you keep visited throughout the year by Mus- households. A person is not consid- God] – him didst thou disregard!
can make a claim against the person the cash with you and pay a small lims. According to Muslim jurists, ered rich if he has these things. Thus Nay, verily, these [messages]
who caused the injury or against his/ monthly amount towards your loan, those who can afford, it is obliga- if a person has these things, but his are but a reminder: and so, who is
her insurance company. However, it then you have to pay the Zakat on tory upon them to make at least one income is not sufficient for his basic willing may remember Him in [the
is Haram to make false claims and/ your cash savings. For long-term ‘Umra in their life, either with or expenses, he is eligible for Zakat. light of His] revelations blest with
or to exaggerate the loss in order to loans, which require a small pay- before Hajj or any other time during dignity, lofty and pure, [borne] by
collect more money. A Muslim has ment through installments, only the the year. Q. My question is in regard to the hands of messengers noble and
to be honest whether dealing with amount of the monthly or yearly in- women shaving parts of their body, most virtuous.
Muslims or non-Muslims. stallments can be deducted. Zakat Q. My brother used to work such as the legs and underarms.
should be paid then on any balance in the Middle East. He was very Clearly these parts of the body are Translator’s Notes
Q. Do I have to pay Zakat on in savings after paying the monthly well off then. When he came back not seen in public, but it may be
to Pakistan, more pleasurable to the husband [ 1 ] One day, as recorded in
he invested and the woman herself if they are many well-authenticated Tradi-
the money he maintained. What is the current tions, the Prophet was engrossed
saved, but un- Islamic ruling on this practice? in a conversation with some of the
fortunately it A. According to several Ahad- most influential chieftains of pagan
was all lost be- ith of the Prophet - peace be upon Mecca, hoping to convince them
cause of busi- him - it is a Sunnah for both men – and through them, the Meccan
ness failure. He and women to remove the under- community at large – of the truth
is now working arms and pubic hairs. As far as re- of his message. At that point, he was
somewhere but moving the hairs from legs are con- approached by one of his followers,
has very low cerned, there is no ruling about it in the blind ‘Abd Allah ibn Shurayh
income to sup- the Qur’an and Sunnah. – known after his grandmother’s
port his family. The basic thing in matters (oth- name as Ibn Umm Maktuum – with
Some people er than the acts of worship) is that the request for a repetition or elu-
say that he is everything is permissible, unless it cidation of certain earlier passages
not eligible for is forbidden. If a woman wants to of the Qur’an. Annoyed by this in-
Zakat due to remove the hair from her legs for terruption of what he momentarily
the fact that herself or for her spouse, it is not regarded as a more important en-
he has his own prohibited for her to do so. But if she deavour, the Prophet “frowned and
house and all does this to show her legs in public, turned away” from the blind man
necessities of then her sin will be double. Her one and was immediately, there and
life like TV, re- sin will be for showing the part of then, reproved by the revelation
frigerator, tele- the body that she is forbidden to of the first ten verses of this surah.
phone, etc., at show and the second sin will be for In later years he often greeted Ibn
his home. Keep removing her hair with this wrong Umm Maktuum with these words
in mind that intention. GEMS, P28
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