Giving zakaah to relatives

Reference: http://www.alfawzan.af.org.sa/node/16075

Question: What is better: [is it] to give zakaah to poor and needy relatives whom I am not financially responsible for, or that I give it to the poor and needy neighbour?

Response: The relatives are more worthy; those relatives who are in need are more worthy of that [zakaah], because they qualify for [receiving] charity, as well as their ties of kinship [with you].

- from London, UK. He is a graduate of the Islaamic University of Madeenah, having graduated from the Institute of Arabic Language, and later the Faculty of Sharee'ah in 2004.

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