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Rules of Zakat al-Fitr
You have to pay zakat al-fitr on your own behalf and on behalf of your wife and child and your father if he does not have sufficient wealth to make him independent of means. You should give zakat al-fitr in the form of the usual local staple food.Is it permissible to give dates and dried yoghurt for zakat al-fitr to people who do not regard them as staple foods?
They are living in the west and do not know about any poor people –can they send their zakat al-fitr to another country?
What is the correct the time for paying zakaat al-fitr?
Does he have to pay zakaat al-fitr on behalf of the orphan whom he is sponsoring?
Is the husband obliged to give zakat al-fitr on behalf of his Christian wife?
Those to whom zakat al-fitr may be given
Sending zakaat al-fitr to another country
Is it permissible to give zakaat al-fitr two years in advance by analogy with the zakaah on one’s wealth?
Is the fasting of Ramadaan only taken up by zakaat al-fitr?
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