{"id":1865,"date":"2019-07-12T11:23:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T09:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2019-07-12T11:23:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T09:23:26","slug":"can-i-make-an-intention-of-zakaat-for-a-loan-that-i-had-given-to-a-poor-person-five-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1865","title":{"rendered":"Can I make an intention of Zakaat for a loan that I had given to a poor person five years ago?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Can I make an intention of Zakaat for a loan that I had given to a poor person five years ago?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Can I make an intention of Zakaat for a loan that I had given to a poor person five years ago?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. <\/strong>For a person\u2019s Zakaat to be discharged, it is necessary for a person to make an intention of Zakaat at the time of discharging it and not afterwards. <strong>(Fathul Qadeer 2\/170)<\/strong> Hence, if a creditor had given a loan to his debtor (a Zakaat recipient), the creditors Zakaat will not be discharged if his intention was of a loan and not of Zakaat.<\/p>\n<p>In such a case, a person cannot discharge his Zakaat that was intended as a loan and not of Zakaat.<\/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 I make an intention of Zakaat for a loan that I had given to a poor person five years ago? Q. Can I make an<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-1865","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\/1865","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=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1866,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/1866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}