Prayers & Duties >> Zakat & Charity
Question ID: 160437Country: Bangladesh
Answer ID: 160437
Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !
(Fatwa: 803/707/N=8/1439)
If your maid stays with you merely to live better, to eat better and to learn better and looks after your newborn and she is not a employed with salary and she is eligible to receive zakah i.e. she is adult, and she does not belong to a Sayed family and she is also not sahib-e-nisab, and, if she is not adult and her father is not sahib-e-nisab then you may give her your zakah as a gift. However, if any servant bearing the above mentioned qualities is your salaried employee then you may also give her zakah amount in the name of gift other than the salary.
قال الله تعالى: إنما الصدقت للفقراء والمساكين الآية (سورة التوبة: 60)، ولا إلى غني يملك قدر نصاب فارغ عن حاجته الأصلية من أي مال كان الخ، ............ولا إلى بنى هاشم الخ (الدر المختار مع رد المحتار، كتاب الزكاة، باب المصرف، 3: 295-299، ط: مكتبة زكريا ديوبند)، يصرف المزكي إلى كلهم أو إلى بعضهم، ............ويشترط أن يكون الصرف تمليكا، .......، لا يصرف إلى بناء نحو مسجد (المصدر السابق، ص: 291).
Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best
Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband, India