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And the response to this is that, you know, we need to think about this from a modern lens. You know, some of the

Medahib, they do have some position that Zakat should only be given locally and you do not give, you know, in any foreign land

until you have distributed it all locally. And culturally speaking, we Muslims of North America have the opposite

problem where we don't give anything locally and we send everything overseas. So culturally we have this

mindset that Zakat should not be given locally, even though nobody says this fit-wise. And what I feel is that

there should be a healthy diversity. We have to be realistic. The world is now globally connected. And there are

crises that are so painful. And Allah has blessed, generally speaking, the Muslims of the Western

hemisphere of the Western world to have surplus of Zakat. And large charities,

organizations are based in England and in Canada and in Australia and in America, you know, hundreds of

millions of dollars of charity are given to refugees around the world. I myself have seen first hand,

I'm involved with a number of charities and I have traveled to refugee camps around the globe. I have

traveled to Syrian refugees in Turkey. I have traveled to Palestinian refugees. I've traveled to

other places, you know, Kashmir and the orphans over there. And Subhanallah, I have seen first hand

that, you know, firstly, the surplus of wealth in the Western lands and secondly, more value for your

money. A dollar, you know, in Kashmir is much more powerful, you know, than a dollar over here. So

I have no hesitation in saying, yes, we should send Zakat to projects overseas that are healthy.

However, however, however, make sure that we don't send it all over there. Our problem is that

culturally speaking, we tend to not think about local Zakat. And that's a problem. We also have to

realize our family, an extended family has hacked over us. So we all might have a cousins or

second cousins or a distant relative that is poor, impoverished, whether they're back home. We

might have, you know, somebody that's a widow in the family or somebody that, you know,

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