Who can receive zakat?

Our approach to zakat eligibility

Islamic rules and guidance indicate that there are eight categories of people who are eligible to receive zakat:

The poor
The needy
Administrators of zakat
Those who have a reconciliation of the heart (people who have embraced Islam)
People who have been enslaved
Those in debt
In the cause of God
Travellers (including refugees and displaced people)

The four key categories for Zamzam in this list are numbers 1, 2, 7 and 8. Through your zakat donations to Zamzam UK we can support the poor, the needy and displaced people individually across Somalia (categories 1, 2 and 8) and we can also support transformative community projects that are zakat-eligible (category 7).

Your zakat donations help us fund emergency interventions providing food, shelter, clean water and shelter kits to individuals; the building of clinics, schools and water infrastructure projects such as wells and boreholes ‘in the cause of God’; and support for individual livelihoods to lift families out of poverty.