Ruling on using zakaah to build a house
Question We have a cousin who is elderly and unable to work. He has many children and lives in a village in a small house provided by the government which belongs to him. He has been given a piece of land in the same village by the state, on which he wants to build a…
Question
Praise be to Allah.
It
is not permissible to collect money from the zakaah funds for him to
build on this land, because he has sufficient accommodation. Even if
we assume that he does not have accommodation and does not have money
to pay rent, his rent could be paid from the zakaah funds, because building
requires a lot of money and there are Muslims who need food and drink,
they do not need to own a house. This money that was collected should
be returned to the people who gave it.
