{"id":6154,"date":"2024-07-10T07:42:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/are-the-mentally-handicapped-liable-to-pay-zakah\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T07:42:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:30","slug":"are-the-mentally-handicapped-liable-to-pay-zakah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/are-the-mentally-handicapped-liable-to-pay-zakah\/","title":{"rendered":"Are The Mentally Handicapped Liable To Pay Zakah?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>Do mentally handicapped people need to give zakah?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>Zakah  is a form of Worship and like all other obligations, it is something  which is incumbent upon people who can comprehend and discharge their  duties while being aware of them. Thus, according to our understanding  of Islam, every sane person is obliged to pay Zakah on the assets he  owns.<\/p>\n<p> If an individual does not have the sense of a duty and cannot understand  the meaning and importance of religion and religious obligation he is  not obliged to perform any obligations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-01-02<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6154\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do mentally handicapped people need to give zakah?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1158],"tags":[1774,1909,1911,1910,1233],"class_list":["post-6154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worship-rituals","tag-disable","tag-handicap","tag-mad","tag-mental","tag-zakah"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Are The Mentally Handicapped Liable To Pay Zakah? 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