The Emirates Council for Sharia Fatwa issues a fatwa unifying the value of Zakat al-Fitr at 25 dirhams

The Emirates Council for Sharia Fatwa issued a statement regarding a general Sharia fatwa - No. / 21 / for the year 2022 AD - according to which it clarifies the determination of the amount and value of Zakat al-Fitr, expiation for the ransom of fasting, penance for the oath and breakfast for the fasting person for the year 1443 AH / 2022 AD, based on the outcomes and recommendations of the first consultative forum between the Fatwa Council, officials and representatives Charitable organizations and societies at the level of the emirates of the state, which was held on Thursday, 14 Shaaban / 1443 AH corresponding to 3/17 2022 AD.

In the content of the general fatwa, the Emirates Council indicated the amount and value of zakat al-fitr, penances, and breakfast for a fasting person at the time of giving zakat al-fitr and the ruling on paying it a value, according to the following..

First: The amount of zakat al-fitr is 2.5 kg, two and a half kilograms of rice for each person, and it may be given in kind, “of rice” or in cash, and its value in cash for the Hijri year 1443 AH: “25” twenty-five dirhams for one person.

Second: The amount of the ransom for fasting for a person who is unable to fast is: feeding a poor person 3,250 kg, three kilograms and a quarter of wheat for each day, and it may be given in kind or in cash, and its value in cash for the Hijri year 1443 AH is: “15” fifteen dirhams for each day.

Third: The expiation for spoiling the Ramadan fast “breaking a day in Ramadan deliberately without an excuse” is: feeding 60 poor people;

For each poor person “3.250 kg” three kilograms and a quarter of wheat, or the value of that in cash, which is for the Hijri year 1443 AH: “15” fifteen dirhams for each poor person;

Thus: their total is: 900 dirhams for breaking the fast of one day.

Fourth: The expiation for zihaar - for those who cannot atone by fasting - is: feeding sixty poor persons, an amount of "3.250 kg", three kilograms and a quarter of wheat, and its total value in cash for the Hijri year 1443 AH is "900" dirhams.

Fifthly: The amount of penance for an oath is: Feeding ten poor persons at an amount of “3,250 kg,” three kilograms and a quarter of land for each poor person, and it may be given in kind or in cash, and its total value in cash for the Hijri year 1443 AH is “150” one hundred and fifty dirhams, distributed among ten poor persons.

Sixth and seventh: The expiation for the one who dies owing an obligatory fast, and the expiation for delaying making up for Ramadan without an excuse until the next Ramadan begins: In both of the two mentioned expiations, feeding the poor at the amount of “3.250” three kilograms and a quarter of land for each day, and it is permissible to pay it in kind or in cash, and its value is in cash for the year Hijri 1443 AH is "15" fifteen dirhams for each day.

Eighth: The ransom for a prohibited act - that does not spoil the rituals of Hajj or Umrah - is feeding six needy people;

At the amount of “3.250 kg” three kilograms and a quarter of wheat for each poor person, and it may be taken out in kind or in cash, and its total value in cash in the Hijri year 1443 AH for each prohibited person is “90” ninety dirhams distributed among six poor people.

Ninth: The minimum amount for a fasting person to break their fast in the Hijri year 1443 AH is “15” fifteen dirhams per meal.

The Council also cautioned: that all the values ​​mentioned in the general fatwa are estimated according to the prices in the United Arab Emirates;

Accordingly, it remains subject to change according to the fluctuations in market prices and their differences from one country to another, and it is also adopted in estimating the majority of people’s livelihood in the Emirates, taking into account the different conditions of societies.

Tenth: The timing of paying zakat al-fitr: it is better to discharge the duty and take into account the purposes of Sharia in enriching the poor on the day of Eid, to give zakat al-fitr after the dawn of the day of Eid and before the Eid prayer. Breaking the fast before sunset, and after that: doing it is a decree, not a performance, with what may befall its owner and his agent “charitable societies and organizations” of the sin of negligence and failure to perform an obligation.

Eleventh: Paying the value of zakat al-Fitr and expiation: The council made it clear that scholars differed in the permissibility of taking out the value of food in zakat al-fitr according to sayings, the most famous of which are two: The first: that extracting the value is not sufficient at all, but rather the food must be taken out;

And on this most people of knowledge.

The second: that taking out the value is absolutely acceptable, and it may even be the best if the interest of the beneficiaries requires it.

Since there is a difference of opinion among the scholars on the issue, the matter in that is broad.

Whoever takes out the stipulated amount has been correct, and whoever takes out the value has paid what he owed and divided it, and it may be the first in our time to take out the value if it is required by the interests of the beneficiaries.

The council circulated the general fatwa to all institutions, fatwa centers, and charitable bodies and societies at the level of the emirates of the country.

The Emirates Council for Sharia Fatwas, headed by Allamah Abdullah bin Bayh, extended its warmest congratulations and blessings to the wise leadership, the people of the United Arab Emirates and those residing on its land, to Muslims everywhere, and to the world at large, on the occasion of the advent of the blessed month of Ramadan, asking God Almighty to make its arrival good and a blessing for all humanity and humanity.

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