The Ruling on Zakah Collected from Forbidden Activities
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The Zakat and Income Authority collects zakah from some forbidden activities, such as video shops, song shops, and shisha shops. Is this zakah lawful or forbidden?
It is lawful, and there is nothing wrong with it.
The questioner: What is the ruling on working to collect this zakah?The Shaykh: You are taking charity, you are taking good. However, it may be better to leave off working in this area, because if you work in it and take the zakah from them, that becomes an implicit approval of what they are doing. And you are not taking it for yourself, but rather you are taking it for others. So if you leave this off out of scrupulousness, that is good; otherwise, there is no blame on you.
It is lawful, and there is nothing wrong with it.
The questioner: What is the ruling on working to collect this zakah?The Shaykh: You are taking charity, you are taking good. However, it may be better to leave off working in this area, because if you work in it and take the zakah from them, that becomes an implicit approval of what they are doing. And you are not taking it for yourself, but rather you are taking it for others. So if you leave this off out of scrupulousness, that is good; otherwise, there is no blame on you.