Paying Zakah in Installments to a Poor Person Who Is Not Skilled in Managing It
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Q: I have an older brother who is ill and retired, with a monthly pension of (4,500 riyals). He has unmarried sons and daughters. There are four sons, one of whom is a half-brother to the others (sharing the same father) and lives far away from them. The second son is an employee with a salary of about four thousand riyals. The fourth son is an officer in Tabuk , and the fourth is a student at Imam University . They were living in government-provided housing and paying a nominal rent. Now, they have been notified to vacate the government housing and need to rent and furnish a house. The family relies, after Allah, on the father’s retirement pension and the second son’s salary (in order of birth) for their monthly expenses, which is sufficient for that. However, the cost of renting and furnishing is a large sum that they are unable to afford at present. My question is: Is it permissible to give them from my annual zakah to meet their need?
A: If the situation is as you described, namely that the people mentioned need to buy a house to live in, and they do not have the money to do so, then there is no harm in
helping them from the zakah; because housing is one of the necessities.
A: If the situation is as you described, namely that the people mentioned need to buy a house to live in, and they do not have the money to do so, then there is no harm in
helping them from the zakah; because housing is one of the necessities.
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