The Difference Between the Poor and the Needy, and the Amount Given from Zakah

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Ahm. The scholars' phrasings differed in explaining the poor and the needy, so what is the correct criterion for identifying them, especially in this age? And what is meant by sufficiency? Is it sufficiency for one day or for one year?

Answer:
Yes. As for the first part of the question, which is his statement that the scholars' phrasings differed in defining the poor and the needy, this is incorrect. Their phrasings did not differ. The poor person is the one who finds nothing, or finds a little. As for the needy person, he is the one who finds half of the sufficiency or most of it. As for the second part of the question, which is what amount is paid to the poor and the needy, he is paid what suffices him for a year. He is paid what suffices him and his children for a period of one year. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah grant you success.