📘 قراءة كتاب THE CHENNAI TREATISE ON ANNUAL PAYMENT OF ZAKAAH أونلاين
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CONTENTS
Foreword
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Introduction
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Chapter One: The Obligation of Zakaah
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Chapter Two: Annual Payment of Zakaah
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Conclusion
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Appendix
Arabic Text and English Translation
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Bibliography
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uring my visit to Chennai (formerly known as
Madras), India, for a series of lectures in the
Winter of 2002, I was confronted with a
Fiqh
issue concerning the annual payment of
Zakaah
around which there was much controversy at the
time. I immediately addressed it and dealt with it
in
some of my lectures as thoroughly as was possible,
given the limited reference resources which were
available to me and the time constraints of my
lecture schedule.
For most people who attended my lectures in
Chennai, my answers backed up with evidences
were satisfactory. However, for those who were
staunch followers of the local scholar who had made
the controversial
fatwaas
(ruling), it became obvious
that a more detailed refutation was necessary.
Furthermore, I was informed that one of the highly
respected local scholars from the Ibn al-Qayyim
Center had requested the brother to debate the
subject on more than one occasion, but to no avail.
On my return to the UAE, the brothers who
organized my lecture tour, informed me that the
local scholar had claimed that the evidences that I
had used were not authentic, consequently the
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controversy was raging again. They regularly
contacted me asking for my written response and
sent me the scholar’s Arabic compilation indicating
that the commonly used evidences were inauthentic.
After reviewing the Arabic text, it became
obvious that the response was not what it was
purported to be. Furthermore, it even contained
some of the arguments in support of the standard
position of
Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa‘ah.
I informed
the brothers &nb