Ruling on Giving Zakah to a Female Servant

Question:
She also asks: Is it permissible for me to give some of my zakah to my female servant, knowing that she is Muslim and poor?

Answer:
If she intends by this to encourage her to serve her and stay with her, then it is not permissible, because this would be a means of protecting her wealth, or because the servant has a right to a customary gift that she usually gives her, and she gives her from the zakah in exchange for this customary gift and to encourage her in her service. This is not permissible because in that case she is making the zakah a means of protecting her wealth. However, if she gives it to her because of her poverty and need, and she is Muslim, and she does not intend to encourage her, nor does she intend to pay what she has accustomed her to in terms of gifts, then there is nothing wrong with it. Yes.