Is it permissible to purchase a kidney dialysis machine for a hospital from zakat funds, given the dire need of patients in the city and the shortage of available machines?
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It is not permissible to use funds to purchase dialysis machines because this is not one of the eight categories of recipients mentioned in Surat At-/60. Furthermore, the benefit of these machines is not exclusive to the poor but extends to all patients. Nevertheless, it is permissible to give Zakat to a poor person who needs dialysis in a private hospital if it is not possible to obtain it in a free hospital. As for charitable donations, contributions, and endowments, they should be directed towards such beneficial expenditures.
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