Distributing Zakah to Students of Knowledge and the Repair of Schools
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner asks: Is it permissible to give zakah money to students of knowledge and to spend it on the repair of schools for seeking knowledge?
Answer:
Zakah is not distributed to associations or charitable projects, but only to those in need.[At-Tawbah 9:60] There are eight categories. It is not to be paid to anyone outside these eight categories. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner asks: Is it permissible to give zakah money to students of knowledge and to spend it on the repair of schools for seeking knowledge?
Answer:
Zakah is not distributed to associations or charitable projects, but only to those in need.
Zakah expenditures are only for the poor and for the needy
إِنَّمَا الصَّدَقَاتُ لِلْفُقَرَاءِ وَالْمَسَاكِينِ
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 26-06-1438 هـ — af.org.sa (1:11:26)
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