ZAKAT PAYABLE TO THOSE WHO ARE ELIGIBLE UNDER THE CATEGORIES MENTIONED BELOW: -

 

There are eight categories of Zakat recipients to whom Zakat can be distributed.

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These can be identified from the following verse:

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“Indeed, [prescribed] charitable offerings are only [to be given] to the

 

[1]  poor and

[2]  the needy, and

[3]  to those who work on [administering] it, and

[4]  to those whose hearts are to be reconciled, and

[5]  to [free] those in bondage, and

[6]  to the debt-ridden, and

[7]  for the cause of God, and

[8]  to the wayfarer

 

[This is] an obligation from God. And God is all-knowing, all-wise.”

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(Qur’an, 9:60)