The ruling on giving zakah to an employee whose salary is insufficient for his needs
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Question:
I have zakah on gold, and I have a colleague whose salary is not enough to meet his needs. Yes. He was afflicted with kidney failure. What? He went to India and had a kidney transplant, and I gave him large sums of money. He is also suffering from madness, and he is supporting his father, his mother, his wife, and his son, and he pays the rent for his house and his father’s medical expenses. May I give him this zakah to save him?
Answer:
Yes, you may give him this zakah. An employee whose salary is not sufficient for his needs is given from the zakah, even if he is an employee with a salary. If his salary does not meet his standards or cover his expenses, but he has debts and cannot pay them off, then you give him from the zakah what is sufficient for his needs or helps him with his needs, because the recipients of zakah have not been specified.
I have zakah on gold, and I have a colleague whose salary is not enough to meet his needs. Yes. He was afflicted with kidney failure. What? He went to India and had a kidney transplant, and I gave him large sums of money. He is also suffering from madness, and he is supporting his father, his mother, his wife, and his son, and he pays the rent for his house and his father’s medical expenses. May I give him this zakah to save him?
Answer:
Yes, you may give him this zakah. An employee whose salary is not sufficient for his needs is given from the zakah, even if he is an employee with a salary. If his salary does not meet his standards or cover his expenses, but he has debts and cannot pay them off, then you give him from the zakah what is sufficient for his needs or helps him with his needs, because the recipients of zakah have not been specified.
Source
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