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Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
We live in India and all our domestic helpers are Hindus.Can we give zakat /sadqa fitr to poor hindus? Or is it mandatory to give it to Muslims?
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,
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Zakat al-Fitr may be given to non-Muslims in the Hanafi school; but Zakat itself can’t. (Ibn Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar)
And Allah alone gives success.
Faraz Rabbani
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