Fasting: Can an Attorney Take Wages from Kaffārah Funds for Cooking and Serving?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Fasting: Can an Attorney Take Wages from Kaffārah Funds for Cooking and Serving?

English:

Question #798:

A person was appointed attorney to feed a group of needy persons. Can he take his wages for the work and cooking he does from the kaffārah money with which he was entrusted?

Answer #798:

He can demand the wages for his work and for the cooking. But he cannot consider it as kaffārah payment nor take it from the food to be given to the poor as kaffārah.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Fasting