Fatwas and legal rulings

Views23 | Date of publication09/14/2022

Taking the penance in the form of dry or cooked food

The majority of jurists stipulate in order to pay penance for ownership, and it is not sufficient for them to allow or enable them; Because penance is a financial obligation, the poor must take it with a known amount, unlike the Hanafis, who have enough in penance to enable the poor to eat by inviting them to lunch and dinner; We adhere to the origin of the meaning of feeding in the language, and that it is a name for enabling food, not for ownership, just as God Almighty said: Based on that: there is no objection to paying the penance in the form of cooked food, taking into account the words of one of the scholars who permitted that, although it is more appropriate to pay it in the form of dry materials in order to get out of the dispute. Because getting out of the dispute is desirable. only God knows.