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**surefireinvest** · 09-01-2011, 01:06 AM

I donated money to the National Zakat Foundation. I later realised however that funds will also be used to build a womens refuge. Although this is a noble aim, from my (limited) understanding of the Hanafi fiqh, for Zakat to be fulfilled, it must be a transfer of tangible Assets to the person in need, hence building a womens refuge won't deem my Zakat obligation fulfilled. Can you comment?

also please bare in mind, a person in need is only one of many categories of people entitled to zakat money (unless we are talking about zakatul fitr). For example you can put your money into jihad, you can give it to non muslims to warm their hearts to islam etc. its not only for the poor although with NZF your money is going to teh poor but just saying its not straight forward so lets avoid making statements or drawing conclusions until we have found out and that should include actually asking the NZF for references to back up the fact that its zakatable money as if scrutinises your charity of course you should be allowed to defend it. Zakat is deep, thats why we need scholars, so we should be careful of speaking without knowledge inshAllah hence why im keeping silent on the issue till a scholar can come and explain it.

it sounds like you are talking about zakatul fitr though bro so please clarify which type of zakat your talking about

09-01-2011, 01:06 AM	#10
surefireinvest Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 392 Senior Member	I donated money to the National Zakat Foundation. I later realised however that funds will also be used to build a womens refuge. Although this is a noble aim, from my (limited) understanding of the Hanafi fiqh, for Zakat to be fulfilled, it must be a transfer of tangible Assets to the person in need, hence building a womens refuge won't deem my Zakat obligation fulfilled. Can you comment? also please bare in mind, a person in need is only one of many categories of people entitled to zakat money (unless we are talking about zakatul fitr). For example you can put your money into jihad, you can give it to non muslims to warm their hearts to islam etc. its not only for the poor although with NZF your money is going to teh poor but just saying its not straight forward so lets avoid making statements or drawing conclusions until we have found out and that should include actually asking the NZF for references to back up the fact that its zakatable money as if scrutinises your charity of course you should be allowed to defend it. Zakat is deep, thats why we need scholars, so we should be careful of speaking without knowledge inshAllah hence why im keeping silent on the issue till a scholar can come and explain it. it sounds like you are talking about zakatul fitr though bro so please clarify which type of zakat your talking about
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