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Is it permissible to allocate a portion of Zakat funds to an account for the new children's cancer hospital building project in Egypt, and would this be considered an ongoing charity (Sadaqah Jariyah)?

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It is not permissible to build hospitals and schools or pave roads using zakat funds, because the recipients of zakat are specified in the verse: "Zakah expenditures are only for the poor and for the needy and for those employed to collect [zakat] and for bringing hearts together [for Islam] and for freeing captives [or slaves] and for those in debt and for the cause of Allah and for the [stranded] traveler." As for donating to build hospitals voluntarily, it is an ongoing charity for which its giver will be rewarded.

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