Who Can Receive Your Zakat?
Zakat can't be paid to everybody or give to crowd funded platforms . There are eight explicit classifications of individuals to whom zakat can be given: "The contributions are just for the Fuqara' (poor people), and Al-Masakin (the penniless) and those utilized to gather (the assets); and to draw in the hearts of the people who have been leaned (towards Islam); and to free the prisoners; and for those under water; and for Allah's Cause, and for the voyager (an explorer who is cut off from everything); an obligation forced by Allah. What's more Allah is All-Knower, All-Wise." [Al-Quran 9:60]" 1. Al-Fuqara (poor people ) Fuqara are individuals who live underneath the neediness line and need more means to carry on one day to the next a like others. They merit your zakat to meet the day by day necessities of their lives. 2. Al-Masakin (The poor) Masakin are very poor and penniless individuals. These individuals don't have any belongings or pay. Your zaka...