Who May Receive Zakat
219 questions
Is it permissible for a mother to give her Zakat to her daughter's indebted husband or to her unemployed daughter, given that the mother does not know how the Zakat will be spent?
Is it permissible to continue paying zakat to an organization that is known to differentiate between eligible recipients on the basis of nationality, given the difficulty of finding poor people or agents? And are the zakat payments previously made to that organization considered sufficient?
Is it permissible for a poor family to receive Zakat on the head of the household's money?
Is it permissible to purchase a computer from zakat funds for a charitable organization that distributes them to the needy, knowing that this device was previously bought from household expenses for a person who refused to receive it and pay its price after having requested it?
Is it permissible for an intellectually disabled person, 22 years of age, to receive zakat funds, even if his father is well-off?
Is it permissible to account a sum of zakat that was intended as charity and then its intention changed to zakat when given to the poor, or to account a sum of zakat that will be deducted from the salary in a later month, knowing that it was intended as charity?
Is it permissible for a son to pay the Zakat on his father's money from his own money and give it to his needy, married brother who lives alone?
Is it permissible to give zakat to homes for the elderly, the poor, and orphans instead of the Zakat Bureau?
Is it permissible to sell the surplus quantity of zakat wheat (25 kg) and donate its price or place it in a mosque, when there are no other eligible recipients and there is a fear of it remaining in the house?
Is it permissible to give Zakat al-Mal to a 49-year-old brother who receives a pension of 700 Egyptian Pounds, has four children, pays 100 Pounds monthly for bills, lives in an owned apartment, and bought a plot of land for which he deducts 300 Pounds from his pension to cover its cost? And is he sinful for purchasing this land which is beyond his means?
Is it permissible to give a portion of Zakat funds received from abroad to a needy female relative for essential surgeries?
Is it permissible to give a portion of Zakat al-Mal to needy relatives for whom we are not obligated to provide, and is it permissible to give an ongoing charity (Sadaqah Jariyah) on behalf of the deceased from Zakat money?
Is Zakat obligatory on the estate of the deceased if he did not pay it during his lifetime, and how is the estate to be divided among the mother, the wife, the son, the daughter, the full sister, and the three sons of the full brother?
What is the ruling on zakat for money inherited by children from their father? Is zakat due on it for past years? Is it permissible to pay zakat by settling the debt of a brother in hardship? Is it permissible for someone about to get married to take a portion of zakat? Is it permissible to pay zakat in the form of prizes for Quranic recitation competitions?
Is it permissible for a divorced woman with children, whose father is alive but does not provide for them, to state in a housing contract that she is a widow and her children are orphans in order to obtain housing from the Zakat Fund, given her dire need?
Is it permissible to pay off the debt of an indigent mother from zakat money that I have been authorized to distribute?
Is it permissible for a woman who has collected zakat and sadaqat (charity) to take from it when in need? And is she obliged to return it, even if from money she received as charity? Is it permissible for her to place orphans' charity money in a savings account? And what should she do if a donor wishes to reclaim her money to distribute it among more than one family? And what should she do if zakat money mixes with sadaqa money and she does not know the amount of each? What is meant by "lending to Allah a goodly loan," and is it permissible for this to be with money, and how?
Is it permissible for a father to pay the Zakat on his wealth to his seventeen-year-old son to cover traffic accident compensations owed by him, and will this Zakat be counted on behalf of the father?
Is it permissible to give zakat to the children of a divorced woman who live with their financially capable father? Does the ruling differ between those of them who are employed and those who are students? Is expiation due for delaying zakat for ten months without a legitimate Shar’i excuse?
Is it permissible to pay Zakat to needy relatives who are in debt, and is it permissible to pay expiation to them?
Is it permissible to give zakat on wealth to the husband's sister whose husband earns enough to provide life's necessities, but she wishes to improve her standard of living (such as enrolling her children in expensive private schools and buying expensive furniture for her children's room)? And is it obligatory for the brother or grandfather to spend on that? And is it permissible to pay zakat to settle her deceased husband's debt, which is an interest-based loan?
Is it permissible for a widow with three children to receive zakat, given that her money and her children's money are at the disposal of her miserly father, who gives her only a small amount that does not meet her needs, and saves the rest of the money in the bank? Is she considered among the poor who are eligible for zakat despite the existence of her husband's inheritance? And what is the minimum threshold of poverty for which zakat is permissible?
Is it obligatory to pay expiation from savings allocated for transportation, books, and computer supplies, knowing that this is the only money available?
What is the Shariah ruling regarding delayed Zakat for the deceased, and is it considered a debt owed by the heirs, and what are the consequences of not paying it, and to what extent is it permissible to waive part of the inheritance for the needy and consider it Zakat?