1. What is Zakat al-Fitr?
Zakat al-Fitr: It is the zakat that must be paid by a Muslim before the Eid al-Fitr prayer.
2. Who is obligated to pay Zakat al-Fitr?
Zakat al-Fitr is obligatory for the well-to-do person. As for the poor, insolvent person who does not have any surplus of his own food or the food of those he can spend on the night and day of Eid, it is not obligatory for him. Because he is unable.
3. What is the wisdom behind the legitimacy of Zakat al-Fitr?
God Almighty legislated it to purify the fasting person from idle talk and obscenity, and to spare the poor from asking questions on the day of Eid.
4. What is the time to pay Zakat al-Fitr?
Zakat al-Fitr is due at sunset on the last day of Ramadan, but there is no legal objection to expediting its payment from the beginning of Ramadan, as is correct according to the Shafi’is.
5. What is the ruling on someone who delays paying Zakat al-Fitr until sunset on the day of Eid?
The time for performing it extends until sunset on the day of Eid, as stipulated in the Shafi’i school of thought, and whoever delays paying it, it is not forfeited, but rather he must pay it as a qadha.
6. What are the uses of Zakat al-Fitr?
Zakat al-Fitr is spent on the means of zakat on wealth, as stated in the Almighty’s saying: {Alms are only for the poor and the needy and those who work upon it, and for those whose hearts are reconciled and for the necks. for two debtors, and in the cause of God, and for the wayfarer, an obligation from God, and God is All-Knowing, All-Wise.} [التوبة:60].
7. Is it permissible to give Zakat al-Fitr to one person?
It is permissible for a person to give his zakat al-Fitr to one person, and it is permissible for him to distribute it to more than one person.
8. What is the amount of Zakat al-Fitr?
Zakat al-Fitr is a saa’ of most of the country’s food, and a saa’ is equal to approximately 2.04 kilograms in weight. This year, it was set at a minimum of 35 pounds. Whoever exceeds this obligatory amount is permissible, and this excess is considered a charity on his behalf and will be rewarded, God willing.
9. Is it permissible to pay the value of Zakat al-Fitr?
Paying Zakat al-Fitr based on its value is permissible, and this is what the Hanafi jurists and a group of Tabi’een said, and it is appropriate for the condition of people in this era.
10. Is Zakat al-Fitr obligatory on someone who dies before sunset on the last day of Ramadan?
Zakat al-Fitr is not obligatory on the deceased who died before sunset on the last day of Ramadan. As the scholars said.
11. Is Zakat al-Fitr obligatory on a fetus born after sunset on the night of Eid?
Zakat al-Fitr is not obligatory on the fetus, if it was not born before sunset on the night of Eid, as the majority of scholars have said.