{"id":1806,"date":"2019-07-10T12:03:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T10:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2019-07-10T12:03:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T10:03:57","slug":"can-a-debtor-repay-a-portion-of-his-loan-to-his-creditor-and-give-the-balance-of-the-loan-as-zakaat-without-having-any-prior-arrangements-of-the-same-with-his-creditor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1806","title":{"rendered":"Can a debtor repay a portion of his loan to his creditor and give the balance of the loan as Zakaat without having any prior arrangements of the same with his creditor?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Can a debtor repay a portion of his loan to his creditor and give the balance of the loan as Zakaat without having any prior arrangements of the same with his creditor?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Mufti Saheb, <\/strong><strong>Client A borrowed from Client B an X amount of money, now Client A only wants to pay back a portion of the money borrowed and does not want to pay off the loan in full. Client A says that the balance he owes, he will give it out in Zakaat. There was no such arrangements made.<\/strong> <strong>What is the Islamic ruling?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> If A took a loan from B with an agreement of A to pay the full amount of the loan back to B, then A is liable to pay B the full amount of the loan.<\/p>\n<p>In the enquired situation, as there were no arrangements of payment of Zakaat related to A and B and the loan, A is still liable to pay B the full amount of the loan.<\/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>Can a debtor repay a portion of his loan to his creditor and give the balance of the loan as Zakaat without having any prior arrangements<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-1806","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\/1806","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=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}