Ruling on Giving Zakah to Help a Needy Person with Marriage

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. My name is Salim. A friend of mine says he has only ten thousand riyals and wants to get married. This marriage will cost him about fourteen thousand riyals, plus the cost of building a room in his house for the marriage. The question is: Is it valid for me to give him from the zakah to help him with the marriage?

Answer:
If he is in need of marriage, fears for himself from harm if he does not marry, and is unable to afford the costs of marriage, then help him, because this is among the necessities. Zakah is distributed for such necessities. However, if he is not in need of marriage, but rather it is just a desire or further consideration regarding wives, and he already has a wife, or there is no danger to him from leaving marriage off, such that a wife is not permissible for him—Allah the Exalted says: before that—but if he is unable to bear the burden, fears for himself, and has no money to marry with, this is a necessity. This is the most correct view regarding the necessities.