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Sadaqatul Fitr is the compulsory alms that a Muslim owning the prescribed wealth gives to the needy on
the day of Idul Fitr to purify his soul and to recompense for the defects that may have occurred in his
Ramazan fasts on account of useless or indecent conversations, etc. The quantiy of alms to be given on
behalf of each person is 1.632 kg of wheat or 3.264 kg of barley, dried dates or raisins or the equivalent
sum of money.
A ram, ewe, goat or sheep can serve as a sacrifice for one person only.
More than one person cannot be partners in its sacrifice.
Seven persons – not more – can be shareholders in the sacrifice of a
cow, ox, buffalo or camel, subject to two conditions. First, every partner
should have the intention of sacrifice or Aqeeqa2 only, not merely of
obtaining flesh. (This implies that a person can participate in a sacrificial
animal with the intention of Aqeeqa.) Second, every partner’s share should
be one-seventh (or a whole number multiple of it) and not less. If any of
these two conditions are not fulfilled with regard to any of the partners, the
sacrifice will be void for each and every participant.
Less than seven persons can also share a cow, buffalo or camel (e.g.
out of seven shares, a person can have two, three, four, etc. shares in the
animal). In this case also, it is necessary that no shareholder owns less than
on-seventh or else everyone’s sacrifice will be invalid.
Assigning a share to a person in a sacrificial animal should be done on
his explicit request or order only. If a sacrificer just names a person as share-
holder in the sacrificial animal at the time of sacrifice and later obtains the
partner’s approval, then the sacrifice will be invalid.
There is no difference in the sacrifice of a male or a female animal.
Both are equally eligible for sacrifice.
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There are seven causes in which Zakat money can be spent: 1. the poor who owns less than the
prescribed quantity of gold (20 dinaars = 87.5 gram) or silver (200 dirhams = 612.5 gram) or the
corresponding sum of money (Rs. 11000: as on 13 Sep 2007) or equivalent in assets, 2. the destitute who
owns nothing, 3. Zakat-collector, 4. for freeing slaves, 5. the debtor whose worth becomes less than the
prescribed quantity after detucting his loans, 6. the poor Mujahids and Hajis (pilgrims), 7. the traveler who
has little or no money with him during the journey.
Arabic Words not Translated:
1. Aqeeqa
2. Dua
3. Id
4. Imam
5. madrasa
6. Muazzin
7. namaz
8. Sadaqatul Fitr
9. Sharia the body of Islamic Law
10. Zakat almsgiving, wealth-refinement, wealth-purging
Some Translations:
obligatory farz
compulsory wajib
sunnat holy custom, practice, trdition
desirable, preferable mustahab, nafl
reward-worthy afzal
permissible, allowed jaaiz
undesirable, unpreferable makrooh tanzeehi
strictly avoidable makrooh tahreemi
prohibited haram