Launching a national zakat platform that receives funds and directs them to those who deserve them

The General Authority for Islamic Affairs, Endowments and Zakat launched the “National Zakat Platform”, which is the official approved channel for receiving zakat funds in the country from individuals and companies and managing it safely in accordance with Sharia requirements.

The Authority called on all entities that collect or distribute zakat to adjust their situation and register on the national zakat platform within the specified period that is determined through its communication platforms, in compliance with the provisions of federal law.

It warned that collecting or distributing zakat without a license is a violation punishable by federal law, to protect donors and beneficiaries and to ensure the integrity of the zakat system in the country.

The head of the General Authority for Islamic Affairs, Endowments and Zakat, Dr. Omar Al-Darai, said: “Zakat affairs are a trust and a great responsibility towards the homeland and society, and to those who pay zakat and those who are entitled to it alike. The rule is (if a duty is established with certainty, it is not cleared except with certainty); and there is no certainty today except through institutionalization, governance, transparency, data and statistics, in light of the supremacy of legislation and laws, and that the purpose today of launching this platform is not Just collecting zakat money, or just encouraging people to pay it; rather, it is all about obtaining accurate numbers, mastering the logic of the data, controlling the zakat statistics, knowing the destination of this money, directing it to those who deserve it, and being absolutely certain that this money will not fall into the hands of extremists or terrorists, lest their destructive ideas feed on it, stressing that unless we carefully monitor zakat resources and its disbursements, we will remain on a path shrouded in ambiguity.

Al-Darai stressed that this platform is the first rain, and the first step in a sustainable journey of comprehensive digital transformation, as the doors are still open. It is the duty of the time to adapt technology to facilitate this obligation and simplify its steps, so that the performance of the ritual is consistent with the one who is purified, accurate in implementation, keeping pace with the renaissance of the nation, and achieving clearance according to the highest international quality standards.