Is it permissible for a company owner who has troubled debts with clients and is unable to pay workers' wages to take from zakat money to pay the wages in order to save his company, given the unavailability of lawful loan alternatives?

It is not permissible to use zakat funds to pay the wages of company employees, unless the company owner is indebted for the employees' wages and unable to pay them. In that case, he may take from zakat as a person in debt (gharim). However, if the questioner intends to pay his personal zakat as wages for his company's employees, this is not permissible, even if the employees are eligible for zakat, because by doing so, he would be paying his own debt from his zakat.