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Zakat should be given in cash to poor and needy Muslims in their and they will do as they wish with it.

If the poor authorize him to buy food items with the zakat money for them then only it becomes permissible. 

Shaikh, I am from Bangladesh, a group of people collect zakat money and buy iftar items through this money and give these iftar items to poor fasting muslims. Can I give my zakat money to this group? Is it permissible the way they spend the zakat money?

Zakat | April 4, 2022 5:39 pm
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A Muslim had given a loan of Rs.5000 to his Muslim Miskeen maid. She is not able to return the loan. Can he help her by giving Rs. 7000/- from the Zakat Money and ask her to return the loan of Rs.5000/- Can this, Give & Take transaction take place simultaneously.
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Sheikh my question is a child has no parents and his dads money is taken care by some person to return the child when grows up so for that money is zakat valid