{"id":1067,"date":"2019-06-17T19:41:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T17:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2019-06-17T19:41:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T17:41:27","slug":"a-creditor-changing-his-intention-of-a-loan-given-to-a-debtor-to-zakaat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1067","title":{"rendered":"A creditor changing his intention of a loan given to a debtor to Zakaat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>A creditor changing his intention of a loan given to a debtor to Zakaat<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. If A takes a loan from B and a long time goes by and the loan is not paid back, So B makes an intention of sadaqah or lillah or zakaat on the debt. When the money comes , what\u2019s the ruling on the intention for\u00a0<\/strong><strong>1) sadaqah\u00a0 2) lillah\u00a0 3) zakaat?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> In terms of Zakaat, the intention made at the time of B giving money to A will be taken into consideration. If B made an intention of a loan when giving the money to A, the intention of considering it as Zakaat will be invalid. In such an instance, B cannot change his intention to Zakaat. B may only do so after receiving the money\/loan repayment from A.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of Lillah, B may forfeit the repayment of the loan and consider it as Lillah whether or not A repays the loan.<\/p>\n<p>In both of the above cases, the difference between the two is that the loan cannot be considered as Zakaat until ownership is fully established <em>(Tamleek)<\/em> i.e. when A repays the loan to B, whereas, it is not necessary for ownership to be fully established for the loan to be considered as Lillah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A creditor changing his intention of a loan given to a debtor to Zakaat Q. If A takes a loan from B and a long time<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trade","category-zakah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}