The ruling on paying zakah in installments during the lunar year

Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to pay zakah in advance in installments, and then pay the remainder in one lump sum at the end of the lunar year?

Answer:
Zakah is paid immediately to the needy people who are present; one does not wait for needy people in the future, but rather pays it to the needy people who are present at the time zakah becomes obligatory, at the time it becomes obligatory. If a person has an amount he wants to give to someone, and if he were to give it to him in one lump sum, he fears that he will corrupt it because he is poor in managing it, then perhaps in this case he gives it to him little by little so that he does not corrupt it. Yes.