{"id":3268,"date":"2021-08-03T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:19:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T09:19:09","slug":"paying-zakaat-on-looted-or-stolen-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=3268","title":{"rendered":"Paying Zakaat on looted or stolen items"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Paying Zakaat on looted or stolen items<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q. My stock and merchandise were stolen, looted and destroyed in the riots. Do I still have to pay Zakaat on what was due and outstanding?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> The payment of Zakaat does not remain obligatory upon a person for any wealth, stock or merchandise that was stolen, looted or destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, if one had delayed the payment of Zakaat due to a valid excuse or reason and one\u2019s wealth, stock or merchandise was stolen, looted or destroyed during that period, there no longer remains an obligation upon a person to pay the Zakaat that had become due for that wealth, stock or merchandise.<strong> (Shaami 2\/361)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>N.B.<\/strong> It should be noted that to delay the discharging of Zakaat without a valid reason is sinful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paying Zakaat on looted or stolen items Q. My stock and merchandise were stolen, looted and destroyed in the riots. Do I still have to pay<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trade","category-zakah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268","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=3268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3272,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions\/3272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}