If I Have Caused Damaged People’s Property, Can I Give Charity to a Mosque as Expiation?

Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch 

Question Summary

If I have caused damaged people’s property, can I give charity to a Mosque as expiation? What should be my intention in such a case?

Question Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

If you have damaged property at a store/shop, estimate the value of the item and donate the money to that specific store. If the property belonged to an individual, you can anonymously donate the money to them or in the form of a gift. [Ibn ‘Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar]

Your intention in both cases is to return to them the value of the property damaged.

Hope this helps
Allah knows best
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch

Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

 

Shaykh Yusuf Weltch is a teacher of Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he then completed four years at the Darul Uloom seminary in New York, where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences. He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he stayed for three years studying in Dar Al-Mustafa under some of the greatest scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib. In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Qur’an and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Qur’anic exegesis, Islamic history, and a number of texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.