The ruling on a charitable association taking zakah to employ its workers
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it permissible for a charitable association that has employees for whom it has guaranteed their salaries and housing to take zakah from people and pay these salaries and housing from it? And if it has already paid them, is it liable to guarantee them?
Answer:
By Allah, do you want to take people's zakah and build palaces for the employees with it? This is not permissible. Zakah is[At-Tawbah 9:60] for their needs. People who want to eat, who have debts and lawsuits, and you say, "No, we want to build palaces for the employees who manage the association to live in." This is not permissible. Yes.
Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
Answer:
And the employees are appointed to it. First of all, the association: who delegated it to them? Did the authority delegate the collection of zakah to them? It is not permissible for anyone to collect zakah except by order from the authority, so that they become among the collectors and those who work on it. Who is the one who appointed them to collect zakah? Yes.
Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
Answer:
They only accept donations. As for zakah, it is not accepted unless there is authorization from the one in authority or authorization from the person who owes the zakah, saying, “Take it and distribute it,” or appointing him to distribute it on his behalf. As for someone who comes and says, “I will take the zakah, give it to me, and I will handle it,” who appoints him to do this? Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it permissible for a charitable association that has employees for whom it has guaranteed their salaries and housing to take zakah from people and pay these salaries and housing from it? And if it has already paid them, is it liable to guarantee them?
Answer:
By Allah, do you want to take people's zakah and build palaces for the employees with it? This is not permissible. Zakah is
for the poor and for the needy and for those employed to collect [zakah]
لِلْفُقَرَاءِ وَالْمَسَاكِينِ وَالْعَامِلِينَ عَلَيْهَاQuestion:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
Answer:
And the employees are appointed to it. First of all, the association: who delegated it to them? Did the authority delegate the collection of zakah to them? It is not permissible for anyone to collect zakah except by order from the authority, so that they become among the collectors and those who work on it. Who is the one who appointed them to collect zakah? Yes.
Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
Answer:
They only accept donations. As for zakah, it is not accepted unless there is authorization from the one in authority or authorization from the person who owes the zakah, saying, “Take it and distribute it,” or appointing him to distribute it on his behalf. As for someone who comes and says, “I will take the zakah, give it to me, and I will handle it,” who appoints him to do this? Yes.
Source
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