Is it permissible to direct Zakat funds to purchase tickets for a charitable musical concert, knowing that its proceeds will go to patients at the Cancer Institute?
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Musical concerts contain no good, due to the sins they entail, such as music and mixing. It is not permissible to spend funds on purchasing tickets to attend them. Rather, zakat must be spent on its eight categories explicitly mentioned in the Quran. The mere fact that a person is ill does not make them eligible for zakat, unless they fall under the descriptions of those eligible mentioned in the verse.
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