Question:It is stated that the Fast-breaking Zakat cannot be transferred to a country outside the country of payer of the Fast-breaking Zakat. Is a resident of Iraq, for example, not permitted to transfer it to Iran or is a resident in Baghdad not permissible to transfer it to Karbala? Or is a resident in Baghdad- Karkh side not permissible to transfer to Risafa side of Baghdad?

Answer:In the name of Allah, what is meant the country is the city where the payer lives not the state. The people of Baghdad do not transfer to Najaf and vice versa. Yes, it is possible to make use of the narrations emphasizing that Fast-breaking Zakat is given to the nearest in the same city, unless the farther needs the Fast-breaking Zakat more than the nearest. Allah knows best.

Question:If a person is assigned to collect Fast-breaking Zakat in mosques or Husseiniat, the Fast-breaking Zakat of one person, for example, is twenty thousand dinars, so he paid a cash bill of (25) thousand dinars. Is it permissible for this collector to return five thousand dinars from this money?

Answer:In the name of Allah, it is permissible. Allah knows best.

Question:If Fast-breaking Zakat is collected in one fund and the Fast-breaking Zakat of the Sayed and non-Sayed is mixed, should the money raised in this fund only be given to the non-Sayed?

Answer:In the name of Allah, as in the question, the Fast-breaking Zakat may not be given to the Sayed for the total knowledge of the prohibition of some (non-Sayed) of the total. Allah knows best.

Question:If the guest comes before sunset of the night of the Eid and stays at the host’s house; eating, drinking and sleeping until the morning of the Eid day, shuold his Fast-breaking Zakat be paid by the host in this case?

Answer:In the name of Allah, Yes. Fast-breaking Zakat should be paid by the host. Allah knows best.

Question:If I were invited to break the fast in a house on the 29th of Ramadan, and then it is announced that the next day is the first day of Eid, should my host pay my Fast-breaking Zakat?

Answer:In the name of Allah, If you spent the night of Eid as in the question at the host’s house, then the host is responsible for your Fast-breaking Zakat. If you left the house after breakfast, you are responsible for your Fast-breaking Zakat. Allah knows best.

Question:If one pays more than the due amount for compensating fasting Ramadan, for example paying a kilo for each day, even if the due is three quarters of a kilo?

Answer:In the name of Allah, it suffices, and the increase is not considered as part of the compensation.

Question:Regarding the compensation of not fasting the coming Ramadan, is it permissible to use salt and sugar?

Answer:In the name of Allah, sugar or salt are not enough to be as compensation. Allah knows best.

Question:If one pays more than the due amount in the Fast-breaking Zakat or its value as if paying ten kilos to three people or ten thousand pounds, but the estimated value of nine thousand pounds, is he discharged?

Answer:In the name of Allah, Yes, he is discharged. The increase is not considered part of the Fast-breaking Zakat. Allah knows best.

Question:Is it permissible to replace Fast-breaking Zakat with salt or sugar?

Answer:In the name of Allah, sugar or salt are not enough to replace the Fast-breaking Zakat. Allah knows best.

Question:It is permissible to pay the Fast-breaking Zakat as money. However, is it permissible to intend that using money instead of one of the crops or is it permissible to take out the money (the value of three kilos of one of the crops), without the intention? Many of the payers spend the value without knowing that it is worth three kilos i.e., they ask how much the Fast-breaking Zakat to pay the duty and answered, for example, three thousands Lebanese liras, they are only concerned with paying the Zakat to discharge their liability, neglecting the rules of Fast-breaking Zakat, and many of them do not intend to give money instead of the crops. There may be one crop with this value or many, but the payers pay the money without paying attention or determination of the replacement for it?

Answer:In the name of Allah, it is enough to pay money if it is achieved by one way or another the value of one of the crops which represent replacement for the Fast-breaking Zakat. Allah knows best.