{"id":3396,"date":"2021-10-01T09:24:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T07:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2021-10-01T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T07:24:52","slug":"compensating-for-the-deceaseds-missed-religious-obligations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=3396","title":{"rendered":"Compensating for the deceased&#8217;s missed religious obligations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Compensating for the deceased&#8217;s missed religious obligations<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q. The deceased passed away and missed a few years Qurbani and a few years of Salaah. How can it be compensated?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>. If the deceased stipulated in his\/her Islamic Will that any missed religious obligations (such as missed Salaah and undischarged Qurbani) should be compensated from his\/her estate, then the executors\/heirs have a duty to fulfil the bequest, but this must not exceed the value of one third of the estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the amount exceeds one third of the estate, the heirs are encouraged to discharge the excess from their own shares or wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the deceased did not record any missed religious obligations in his\/her will, the executors\/heirs are not obliged to compensate for any missed Salaah\/Qurbani (they are aware of), but are still encouraged to do so from their own wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fidya (compensation) for missed Salaah is currently calculated in KZN, South Africa at R20.00 per Salaah (R20 x 6 Salaahs per day (5 Fardh &amp; Witr) = R120.00 as of 1st October 2021) which must be given to poor and needy Muslims (Zakaat recipients).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For each undischarged Qurbani, the current value of a live Qurbani animal must be given to poor and needy Muslims (Zakaat recipients).<\/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>Compensating for the deceased&#8217;s missed religious obligations Q. The deceased passed away and missed a few years Qurbani and a few years of Salaah. How can<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,55,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mirath","category-salah","category-udhiyyah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396","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=3396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3398,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions\/3398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}