Zakat/ sadqa fitr to Hindus?

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Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

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?

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In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,

This request, in its exhaustiveness, is beyond the scope of our Answers service.

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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Tags: Hanafi, Hanafi Madhab, hindu, Ibn Abidin, Zakaat

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