Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayya is a renowned\nscholar from Mauritania. Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayya is the Chairman of the UAE\u2019s\nFatwa Council, and an instructor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah. He\nserved in the past as a judge at the High Court of the Islamic Republic of\nMauritania and was the Head of Shari\u2019ah Affairs at its Ministry of Justice. He\ncurrently serves as the President of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim\nSocieties, based in Abu Dhabi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As his fatwa is concise, below is\nthe full text as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn the way it is described in\nthe question, UNHCR is considered an agent for the Zakat donor. If the latter\nis trusting UNHCR\u2019s staff for distributing Zakat to eligible beneficiaries,\nthen there is no interdiction in this. The question here is a question of\nagency only, not a question related to the essence. For some scholars it is\nrecommended to give Zakat to an agent, and this is the opinion of the Maliki School.\nFor others it is preferable to pay it directly. Anyway the important thing as\nwe mentioned is that the person has full trust that the agent he gives his\nZakat to will distribute it to its legitimate beneficiaries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore the Sheikh\u2019s fatwa\npoints out that Zakat donors are allowed to give their Zakat to UNHCR provided\nthat they fully trust UNHCR in distributing Zakat to its legitimate\nbeneficiaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayya is a renowned scholar from Mauritania. Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayya is the Chairman of the UAE\u2019s Fatwa Council, and an instructor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah. He served in the past as a judge at the High Court of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and was the Head of Shari\u2019ah Affairs at its Ministry of Justice. He currently serves as the President of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, based in Abu Dhabi. As his fatwa is concise, below is the full text as follows: \u201cIn the way it is described in the question, UNHCR is considered an agent for the Zakat donor. If the latter is trusting UNHCR\u2019s staff for distributing Zakat to eligible beneficiaries, then there is no interdiction in this. The question here is a question of agency only, not a question related to the essence. For some scholars it is recommended to give Zakat to an agent, and this is the opinion of the Maliki School. For others it is preferable to pay it directly. Anyway the important thing as we mentioned is that the person has full trust that the agent he gives his Zakat to will distribute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_format_video_embed":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n