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Collecting
Zakaah
Question:
We belong to an Islaamic society in a western country. Is
it incumbent upon us, according to Islaamic law, to organise
a system for collecting Zakaah
through this society?
Response:
Establishing such a system is not obligatory for you, as defined
by Islaamic law, but becomes imperative that you do it if
there are poor people amongst you who need money. The Zakaah
must be collected in order that it be given to the poor. In
the hadeeth narrated by Mu'aath ibn Jabal, the Messenger of
Allaah (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) said: ((Teach them that Allaah has
prescribed that they pay from their wealth charity, which
should be taken from the rich and distributed amongst the
poor)).
However,
it is not obligatory that they must collect it in one treasury
and that it must be distributed by the leader or by the society.
If though, their leader, who is their Ameer, thinks that it
should be gathered together, then this is his right according
to Islaamic law.
Shaykh
Ibn 'Uthaymeen
al-Aqalliyaat al-Muslimah - Page 64, Fatwa No.4
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