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And the answer to this is that of course these are very good projects and there's no question

that anybody who's involved with them or finances them for the sake of Allah and for the

sake of benefiting mankind that they're doing a lot of good and there is no question that we should

give our charity to all such good projects that are welfare based that are medical resources in

a cure cancer. These are all good projects to give our Sadaqatu. However, Zakat is a higher level

and it is a sacred amana or trust and that is why Zakat has a much more restricted list and in the surat

of Tauba, we learn of the eight categories of Zakat. You can look them up and there are any basic

Facebook. There are eight categories of Zakat and these eight categories are restricted. These are

the only ones we can give Zakat to and therefore research foundations no matter how good of a work

that they are doing that they do not come under these. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,

in the masadaqatu Lil Fukarahi wa l-masaqeen. Fukarah and masaqeen so Zakat can be given to

Fakat and miskeem and Fakat is somebody who does not have enough even to live a bare minimal lifestyle

like a homeless person and miskeem is somebody who he might have just a bare amount but not enough to

sustain a healthy to sustain what is considered to be you know a poverty line let's say right so

below the poverty line would be a miskeem and even below that like a very extreme poverty this is

so Allah says both Fakat and miskeem you can give Zakat in the masadaqatu Lil Fukarahi wa l-masaqeen

wa l-amilina alaihah and the people that are in charge of distribution now in those days

there was an entire committee of Zakat there was an entire branch of the government of Zakat

and of course you're going to have people traveling the land collecting Zakat distributing Zakat

they have to have salaries they're doing a job here and by the way this therefore means that

in our times it is completely permissible for Zakat organizations that are collecting Zakat

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