Ruling on spending zakah on printing books and spreading knowledge
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Q199: The questioner says: I have money, and I want to print some
booklets that call people to enter this Islam, in foreign languages, and I want to do this from my zakah. Is it permissible to spend zakah on money for printing books?
A199: No, not from zakah. Zakah is to be spent in the categories specified in the noble verse, in the saying of the Exalted and Majestic:[At-Tawbah 9:60] . It is not permissible to pay it out of these eight categories, neither for printing books, nor for building mosques and schools, nor for any other forms of charity. Rather, these projects are funded from donations, not from zakah.
booklets that call people to enter this Islam, in foreign languages, and I want to do this from my zakah. Is it permissible to spend zakah on money for printing books?
A199: No, not from zakah. Zakah is to be spent in the categories specified in the noble verse, in the saying of the Exalted and Majestic:
Zakah expenditures are only for the poor and for the needy and for those employed to collect [zakah] and for bringing hearts together [for Islam] and for freeing captives [or slaves] and for those in debt and for the cause of Allah and for the [stranded] traveler - an obligation [imposed] by Allah. And Allah is Knowing and Wise.
إِنَّمَا الصَّدَقَاتُ لِلْفُقَرَاءِ وَالْمَسَاكِينِ وَالْعَامِلِينَ عَلَيْهَا وَالْمُؤَلَّفَةِ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَفِي الرِّقَابِ وَالْغَارِمِينَ وَفِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَاِبْنِ السَّبِيلِ فَرِيضَةً مِنَ اللَّهِ وَاللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ
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