Is it permissible to give my friend from the zakah to help him with marriage?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. The questioner says: I have a friend who owns only ten thousand riyals, and he wants to get married. This marriage will cost him about fourteen thousand riyals, in addition to 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 and fears for himself from fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) if he does not marry, and he is unable to afford the costs of marriage, then help him, because this is among the necessities, and zakah is distributed for such cases. However, if he is not in need of marriage, but it is just an extra desire or extra indulgence, an extra diversion with women, and he already has a wife or there is no danger to him from leaving marriage, then the zakah is not permissible for him. Allah the Exalted says:[An-Nur 24:33] But if he is unable to exercise patience and fears for himself, and he does not have sufficient money, then he is helped, because this has become a necessity. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. The questioner says: I have a friend who owns only ten thousand riyals, and he wants to get married. This marriage will cost him about fourteen thousand riyals, in addition to 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 and fears for himself from fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) if he does not marry, and he is unable to afford the costs of marriage, then help him, because this is among the necessities, and zakah is distributed for such cases. However, if he is not in need of marriage, but it is just an extra desire or extra indulgence, an extra diversion with women, and he already has a wife or there is no danger to him from leaving marriage, then the zakah is not permissible for him. Allah the Exalted says:
But let them who find not [the means for] marriage abstain [from sexual relations] until Allah enriches them from His bounty.
وَلْيَسْتَعْفِفِ الَّذِينَ لَا يَجِدُونَ نِكَاحًا حَتَّىٰ يُغْنِيَهُمُ اللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يجوز إعطاء صديقي من الزكاة لمساعدته على الزواج؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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