The ruling on feeding fasting people from zakah funds

Question : May Allah reward you. A woman asks: I am a woman who possess gold zakah amounting to three hundred riyals. Is it permissible for me to give it in charity to feed fasting people?

Answer : It is not permissible for a person to give his zakah, the zakah of wealth, to feed fasting people. Ah. Because the fasting people will break their fast with food, and zakah is not permissible to be distributed as food except for zakat al-fitr, which must be food. However, it is also not permissible to use zakat al-fitr for feeding fasting people, because the obligation is that the poor person owns that zakah; he is given it and does with it what he wishes. Yes.