{"id":1638,"date":"2019-07-03T14:30:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T12:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2019-07-03T14:30:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T12:30:23","slug":"is-it-permissible-for-a-muslim-student-to-make-use-of-a-zakaat-based-bursary-fund-to-fund-their-university-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1638","title":{"rendered":"Is it permissible for a Muslim student to make use of a Zakaat based bursary fund to fund their university studies?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Is it permissible for a Muslim student to make use of a Zakaat based bursary fund to fund their university studies?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Im a student at UKZN and I do not have sufficient money to fund my studies. Will it be okay for me to utilize a bursary to fund my studies that is Zakaat based?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. <\/strong>In principle, if you do not have in your net-possession the Nisaab amount i.e. you do not have Zakaatable assets in your net-possession excluding your liabilities which is less than the Nisaab amount, then you are a worthy recipient of Zakaat. As such, if you or any other student is a worthy recipient of Zakaat, he may accept a bursary that is Zakaat based to fund his studies.<\/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>Is it permissible for a Muslim student to make use of a Zakaat based bursary fund to fund their university studies?\u00a0 Q. Im a student at<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":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zakah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","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=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}