"Ibn Taymiyyah said the best of all obligations is to secure the release of prisoners. Pertaining to charity, I am going to say in this day and age, among the best charities is to give your Zakah to such families and to prisoners. Let me add prisoners – what do I mean? Most have not been in prison, Alhamdulillah and Inshaa Allah none of you see it. Do not think that one in prison cannot spend. They can spend and they can get necessary survival items like soup and tuna, because at times the food over there is not eatable. You would not eat it and nobody can eat it. Whether you agree with them or disagree with them, again this has nothing to do with it. We must feed the captive.

During the time of the Prophet (ﷺ), he ordered that those who came to kill him and annihilate them be given the best of food. The Sahaabah gave them the best food they had – it was better than what they ate. I met many in prison who were in for drugs, murder and other crimes, and they turned to Islam. When I saw how good they were, I asked them how did your Imaan get to this level? They said Shaykh we made mistakes, we lost this life and we are possibly going to die in here, so we want to go from here to Firdaws. Wallahi one of them pointed and he said I want to go from here to Firdaws. You can walk up to your refrigerator, go to your local market or the gas station to get a little snack and come back, but your brothers behind four walls sleep with a hungry stomach.

Go look up a list of prisoners and give them five, ten or twenty dollars each. That may not be significant here, but behind the walls it is. Wallahi, we would not accept a non-believer who fought us and tried to kill us to sleep hungry. Would you accept it for one who says Laa Ilaaha Illallah Muhammadar-Rasoolullah?" ~ Shaykh Ahmad Musa Jibril