Paying Zakah to a Married Man Who Has a Salary
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Question:
May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to pay zakah to a married man who has a good salary?
Answer:
No, the one who has a good salary is not in need of you paying zakah. You help the married man who is unable to afford marriage with what assists him in getting married. But if he has a good salary, as you say, a salary that suffices him, he is not among the people eligible for zakah.[At-Tawbah 9:60] And he is not poor or needy; he has a salary that suffices him. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to pay zakah to a married man who has a good salary?
Answer:
No, the one who has a good salary is not in need of you paying zakah. You help the married man who is unable to afford marriage with what assists him in getting married. But if he has a good salary, as you say, a salary that suffices him, he is not among the people eligible for zakah.
Zakah expenditures are only for the poor and for the needy and for those employed to collect [zakah]
إِنَّمَا الصَّدَقَاتُ لِلْفُقَرَاءِ وَالْمَسَاكِينِ وَالْعَامِلِينَ عَلَيْهَاThe presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
شرح كتاب التوحيد [ صالح الفوزان ]، تتمة باب ما جاء أن بعض هذه الأمة يعبد الأوثان — islamhouse.com (47:33)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.