Giving Zakah to Low-Wage Expatriate Workers
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Question:
The questioner says: There are some workers who come to this country, and their salaries are usually low, and they have weak dependents. Is it permissible to give them zakah?
Answer:
If they are Muslims, yes. If they are Muslims, they are given from the zakah. However, the one who brought them in may give them from the zakah, unless he intends by that to encourage them to work for him, or to increase their activity in the work, or to add to their work in exchange for the zakah. In that case, it is not permissible. Rather, if he gives it to them for the sake of Allah, for nothing else, because of their poverty and because they are Muslims, there is nothing wrong with that. Yes.
The questioner says: There are some workers who come to this country, and their salaries are usually low, and they have weak dependents. Is it permissible to give them zakah?
Answer:
If they are Muslims, yes. If they are Muslims, they are given from the zakah. However, the one who brought them in may give them from the zakah, unless he intends by that to encourage them to work for him, or to increase their activity in the work, or to add to their work in exchange for the zakah. In that case, it is not permissible. Rather, if he gives it to them for the sake of Allah, for nothing else, because of their poverty and because they are Muslims, there is nothing wrong with that. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-47-منهج أهل السنة والجماعة|صالح الفوزان|العام|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (41:39)
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