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« on: December 29, 2011, 02:03:32 am »



BismAllah ..

According to Shariah, zakah spendings are not supposed to include parents because Shariah says that it's taken for granted you must take care of parents in need and spend on them.  Would anyone know if this is confirmed in the Quran.  I mean, if someone gives money to help their needy parents, it cannot be called "zakah" ?


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« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2011, 02:17:32 am »



Spending on parents and all immediate family members in need is obligatory according to the very principles of the Noble Quran.   Since charity begins at home, definitely parents and immediate family must be our first priority.  But the Quran never says that zakah cannot include parents or that money spent on needy parents cannot be called 'zakah.'   Of course it can.  After all, if someone is not rich and can spend only a small amount as zakah and his parents are needy, he will obviously give that money to his parents as top priority.  That's got to be called 'zakah' by definition, what else can it be termed as?   And yes, the Noble Quran confirms this aspect in Verse 2:215.

"They ask thee, (O Muhammad), what they shall spend. Say: that which ye spend for good (must go) to parents and near kindred and orphans and the needy and the wayfarer."

This verse highlights charity and it starts with parents .. obviously it refers to parents in need for if the parents are rich or richer than their child or children then the concept of 'zakah' doesn't arise concerning them because 'zakah' is meant only for the needy. 

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« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2011, 02:20:39 am »



Yeah, perfect.  Verse 2:215 is crystal clear on it.  I don't know why these shariah guys say giving money to parents isn't zakah. 

Also, nowadays in several Muslim countries government deducts zakah from peoples' accounts as a mandatory step.  This too I don't agree with.  We are entitled to give zakah to whosoever we please.  Why should the bloody government poke it's nose in a matter like this?
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« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2011, 02:39:49 am »


The shariah guys have as yet hardly spoken two sentences that can be seen as correct by a sane person.  They simply want to squeeze out as much money from the people as possible, eventually for their own benefit.  Appealing to people to give their zakah for mosque renovations is a very common one.  Even if the mosques look fine, the renovation processes according to the imams running the mosques seem to be endless.   And of course much of it is needless too.  The mosques simply need to be neat and fairly well maintained.  They don't have to have a 5-star-hotel kinda decor.  Secondly, we aren't even sure if the money they request as donation is actually spent on the mosque.  Maybe a small portion.  But larger portions almost always go into their personal bank accounts.  That's why you will find many of these imams leading a very high life even though most of them don't do any work other than running the mosque.  I've heard of sunni community centers getting some financial assistance from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait etc.  But they also pocket a lot of money they keep getting from donations.  This story is common in North America, UK and Europe. 

I was also told that in several Muslim countries, viz. Pakistan, zakah is deducted from peoples' bank accounts annually by the government as a mandatory law.  Needless to say, this is a totally un-Quranic approach.  First off, zakah is not a municipal tax.  It's a spiritual tax which people must give on their own to whoever they consider needy and of course as much as they can afford.  If someone has needy parents or siblings, he might not be able to give them as much money as zakah as he would want because the f**kin government takes it and puts it in its own pockets.  This is ridiculous.  Money taken by the government as 'zakah' is spent on anything but the poor.  That's a confirmed fact.

It's because of these reasons why Shariah law claims that zakah must exclude money spent on parents.  The idea is to rip off people in the name of 'zakah.' Corruption has reached such astronomical heights not just among Muslim governments but also within the circle of imams that they don't even spare the concept of zakah.  Allah will deal with them. 

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« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2011, 02:47:16 am »

hehe ,,  chuckles.   you're right sis.  They just fail to speak right.  And yeah, imams in North America and other Western countries mint money thru 'donations.'   During Ramadan, Eid, Hajj ..... whenever they mention about zakah, they expect people to give it as donation to them, as if those who donate don't have any deserving folks within their own family and friends.  Even those with a very fixed income are expected to give to rather than receive.  I've seen that so often.  There's just to concept of giving zakah to the poor.
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« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2011, 02:48:47 am »

Exactly, that's the problem.
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« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2011, 07:11:23 pm »

The shariah guys have as yet hardly spoken two sentences that can be seen as correct by a sane person.

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