{"id":29646,"date":"2024-03-09T10:20:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T10:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/?p=29646"},"modified":"2024-03-11T10:27:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T10:27:58","slug":"zakat-liability-of-the-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/zakat-liability-of-the-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"Zakat Liability of the Insane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 06942<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Answered by: <\/strong><strong>Shaikh Shafiur Rahman<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><u>Question:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">If someone has not paid zakat for a few years and then they become majnun (insane). Do the outstanding zakat payments become cancelled?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">The pre-conditions for someone liable to pay zakat is that they must be a sane, free, adult Muslim.<a href=\"#sdfootnote1sym\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">If one is or becomes insane (majnun) then the obligation is lifted from the person because the payment of zakat is also an \u2018ibadah and there is no obligation of \u2018ibadah on an insane person.<a href=\"#sdfootnote2sym\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Therefore, the insane person will not be in a position of legal capacity to pay for any outstanding zakat until and unless he regains his sanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">If he regains his sanity, then he will be obliged to pay the outstanding zakah that was incurred for the past periods he was sane and met the other conditions of zakat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<a href=\"#sdfootnote1anc\">1<\/a> (\u0648\u064e\u0634\u064e\u0631\u0652\u0637\u064f \u0627\u0641\u0652\u062a\u0650\u0631\u064e\u0627\u0636\u0650\u0647\u064e\u0627 \u0639\u064e\u0642\u0652\u0644\u064c \u0648\u064e\u0628\u064f\u0644\u064f\u0648\u063a\u064c \u0648\u064e\u0625\u0650\u0633\u0652\u0644\u064e\u0627\u0645\u064c \u0648\u064e\u062d\u064f\u0631\u0650\u0651\u064a\u064e\u0651\u0629\u064c)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">\u0635259 &#8211; 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\u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u062d\u0627\u0634\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0628\u0646 \u0639\u0627\u0628\u062f\u064a\u0646 \u0631\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062d\u062a\u0627\u0631 \u0637 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0644\u0628\u064a &#8211; \u0643\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0632\u0643\u0627\u0629 &#8211; \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0643\u062a\u0628\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0627\u0645\u0644\u0629<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Only Allah knows best<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Written by Shaikh Shafiur Rahman<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote2\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 06942 &nbsp; 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