Giving zakah to an organization that supports orphans and the poor and spends on them
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Fatwa number ( 16130 )
Q: The Arab Islamic University in the ( Chittagong Bangladesh ) region provides for and feeds more than five hundred students, including orphans and the poor, free of charge from the beginning of the academic year to its end. Is it permissible for people of good and wealth to give zakah, donations, and other charity to this university?
the other to this university?
A : There is no harm in giving zakah to the organization that supports orphans and the poor and spends on them, whether it is a university or otherwise; because it acts as an agent for the one paying zakah in delivering the zakah to those who are entitled to it. And success is from Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions.
Q: The Arab Islamic University in the ( Chittagong Bangladesh ) region provides for and feeds more than five hundred students, including orphans and the poor, free of charge from the beginning of the academic year to its end. Is it permissible for people of good and wealth to give zakah, donations, and other charity to this university?
the other to this university?
A : There is no harm in giving zakah to the organization that supports orphans and the poor and spends on them, whether it is a university or otherwise; because it acts as an agent for the one paying zakah in delivering the zakah to those who are entitled to it. And success is from Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions.
Source
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