Fatwa ID: 06545

 

Answered by: Muftiyah Habiba Akhtar

 

Question:

 

If someone has not paid zakat for a few years and then they become majnun. Do the outstanding zakat payments become cancelled?

 

 

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

 

Answer:

 

Firstly, to delay Zakat without a valid reason is sinful and must be avoided. (1)

 

As the person became majnun after being sane, they were in the state of eligibility when they had the obligation to pay Zakat. (2)

 

This person will be considered Majnun Taari which is the state where one became insane after sanity. And this insanity has lasted over a year. Then, only then are they not eligible to give Zakat. (3)

 

Prior to this, the previous Zakat are an obligation upon the person for the period they were sane and must be completed as that is the eligibility criteria met.

 

 

Only Allah knows best

Written by Muftiyah Habiba Akhtar

Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah

Darul Ifta Birmingham

 

 

 

 

1)

(فيأثم بتأخيرها) بلا عذر (وترد شهادته) لأن الأمر بالصرف إلى الفقير معه قرينة الفور وهي أنه لدفع حاجته وهي معجلة، فمتى لم تجب على الفور لم يحصل المقصود من الإيجاب على وجه التمام…

Durrul Mukhtar, volume 2, page 272, Darul Fikr Beirut

 

2)

(قوله عقل وبلوغ) فلا تجب على مجنون وصبي لأنها عبادة محضة وليسا مخاطبین به

Raddul Mukhtar, Volume 3, page 173, DKI

 

3)

أما العارضي، فإن استوعب كل الحول فكذلك في ظاهر الرواية وهو قول محمد ورواية عن الثاني

Raddul Mukhtar, Volume 3, page 173, DKI