Recipients of zakat

There are 8 categories of people entitled to receive zakat as what stipulated in the Qur'an.

• needy muslims (fakir)
• those who don't have properties or means of income or income less than half of their daily needs.
• poor muslims (miskin)
• those who don't have means of income but little properties or income but insufficient to cater their daily needs.
• aamil
• peole who are appointed by the religious authority to collect and administer zakat payment.
• new converts to Islam
• fir riqaab
• freeing slave from his master or captive of war.
• al-ghaarimeen
• muslims who are in debt with the three categories:
• a person who is in debt because of solving two people in dispute but unable to pay.
• a person who is in debt because of self interest due to permissible or impermissible needs and is repentant but unable to pay.
• a person who is in debt because standing as a guarantor but unable to pay.
• fisabilillah
• those who strive in the cause of Allah to stop injustice against muslims.
• ibnu sabil
• those who are travelling for good purposes.