Donate Your Zakat Today

Donate your Zakat today to help the most vulnerable members of our community afford legal defense and advocacy against Islamophobia. Your Zakat donation will go directly into helping local Texas Muslims who cannot afford to help themselves.

Numerous Muslim scholars have confirmed that Zakat is payable to organizations that exist to serve the Muslim community by protecting their rights. This is because the work done by CAIR-Chicago (and other such organizations) can be classified as fi-sabilillah, which is one of the eight categories of Zakat recipients detailed in the Quran (Chapter 9, Verse 60).

Islamic scholar Sheikh Ahmad Kutty a senior lecturer and Islamic scholar at the Islamic Institute of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, states: “I think it is not only permissible, rather it is also imperative that we do give our zakah to organizations like CAIR, since they are fulfilling a most timely and essential service for the healthy survival of the community. Supporting such institutions clearly falls under the legitimate objectives of zakah as expounded by authentic scholars and jurists of Islam, both of the past and the present.