Is permissible to used zakat money to treat injured animal?
Question
Is permissible to used zakat money to treat injured animal?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
As-salāmu `alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.
It is not permissible to use zakat for the treatment of injured animals.
Zakat is to be paid to a human who is a Muslim and who is poor and needy as defined by Shariah. [1]
And Allah knows best.
Saeed Ahmed Golaub
Westmoreland, Jamaica, West Indies
Student Darul Iftaa
Checked and Approved
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
daruliftaa.net
(2012-03-09)
References (Arabic / Urdu sources)
[1]مشكاة المصابيح (1 / 570):
وَعَن ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: فَرَضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ زَكَاةَ الْفِطْرِ طُهْرَ الصِّيَامِ مِنَ اللَّغْوِ وَالرَّفَثِ وَطُعْمَةً لِلْمَسَاكِينِ. رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد
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