Where to pay your zakat
Pay an official zakat body where you live, directly on its own website. These are plain links: no fees, no tracking, no deals. We list a body only after we check it on an official source.
Mustahaqat does not collect money. We never hold your zakat, take a fee on it or pass it on. Pay the organisation directly, on its own website.
We list official bodies only. We are not linked to any of them and get nothing from them. Countries are in alphabetical order.
Official zakat bodies by country
- Bahrain: Ministry of Justice, Islamic Affairs and Waqf, which runs the zakat and charity fund.
- Indonesia: BAZNAS, the national zakat agency.
- Kuwait: Kuwait Zakat House, a government body set up by law.
- Malaysia (Federal Territories): Pusat Pungutan Zakat (PPZ-MAIWP). Each Malaysian state has its own zakat centre.
- Saudi Arabia (businesses): Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA) collects zakat from companies.
- Saudi Arabia (individuals): Ehsan, the national platform for charitable work. Its site says it accepts zakat and delivers it to eligible recipients.
- United Kingdom: there is no state zakat body. You can check any charity's registration on the Charity Commission register.
Being checked: Oman, Pakistan, Qatar. We add a country once we can confirm its official address.
Before you pay
- Pay on the body's own website or app. Type the address yourself.
- Ask for a receipt that says the payment is zakat.
- Be careful with messages that ask you to send zakat to a person or a private account.
Can zakat go to non-Muslims?
Scholars differ, so here are the main views, with no ruling from us.
- The majority view: zakat on wealth goes to poor Muslims. The Prophet ﷺ said, in meaning, that zakat is taken from the rich among them and given back to their poor (Sahih al-Bukhari 1395; Sahih Muslim 19). Ibn al-Mundhir reported agreement that zakat on wealth is not given to a non-Muslim citizen (dhimmi); Ibn Qudamah quotes him in al-Mughni.
- Those whose hearts are to be won over (al-mu'allafatu qulubuhum) is one of the eight groups named in the Quran (9:60). The Maliki and Hanbali schools include non-Muslims in this group; the Shafi'i school limits it to Muslims; the Hanafi school holds that the share has ended.
- A minority view allowed it to a poor non-Muslim: reported from al-Zuhri and Ibn Sirin, and the Hanafi Zufar (reported by al-Sarakhsi, al-Mabsut, who rejects it); among moderns, al-Qaradawi (Fiqh al-Zakah) calls the claimed consensus disputed.
- Sadaqah: voluntary charity (sadaqah) may be given to anyone in need who is not at war with Muslims; this is widely held in the schools (al-Nawawi, al-Majmu'; Ibn Qudamah, al-Mughni), citing Quran 60:8 and 76:8. A gift from someone who is not Muslim is sadaqah too, never zakat.
Compiled from cited sources; ask a scholar you trust for your own case. This is not a fatwa.