Giving zakah as salaries to preachers at community offices
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: What is the ruling on giving zakah money as salaries to preachers at community offices?
Answer:
No, zakah is not to be made into salaries. Once it becomes salaries, it is no longer zakah. Zakah is paid to those in need. The association must not monopolize it and turn it into salaries. No, yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: What is the ruling on giving zakah money as salaries to preachers at community offices?
Answer:
No, zakah is not to be made into salaries. Once it becomes salaries, it is no longer zakah. Zakah is paid to those in need. The association must not monopolize it and turn it into salaries. No, yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل والفتنة نوعان : فتنة الشبهات وهي أعظم الفتنتين وفتنة الشهوات — islamhouse.com (1:11:38)
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