Is the charity you’re giving your zakah to actually zakah-eligible?
Your zakah is only valid if it reaches someone the Shari'ah says is eligible. A charity doing good work isn't automatically one of them. So don't assume — check.
Good intentions aren’t enough
Zakah is an act of worship with conditions attached. Where it lands is one of them.
Zakah has eligible recipients
The Shari'ah names specific categories of people entitled to receive zakah. Given outside them, the obligation isn't discharged — however worthy the cause.
Good work isn't the same as eligible
A charity can do excellent, needed work and still not qualify for zakah. Eligibility turns on who ultimately receives the funds, and how — not on reputation or good intentions.
Now you can actually check
IFA reviews a charity's programme against its published Zakah Policy and the established rules of zakah, then certifies the ones that genuinely qualify — on a public register you can search in seconds.
“Zakah Eligible”, verified by IFA
When a charity carries IFA’s Zakah Eligible seal, an independent authority has reviewed exactly how your zakah reaches those entitled to it — against IFA’s published Zakah Policy and the established rules of zakah. See the seal, give with confidence. Don’t see it? Ask them why not.
Check the register →
Three steps, thirty seconds
Search the register
Type the charity’s name into IFA’s public Certification Register.
Look for the mark
A certified charity appears with a live status and carries the “Zakah Eligible” seal.
Not there? Ask them
If a charity you support isn’t listed, send them a ready-made message asking them to get certified.
Giving your zakah?
Search the register before you give. If a charity you support isn’t on it, take a moment to ask them to get certified — donors are exactly who charities listen to.
Search the registerRun a charity?
Certification is how you prove to your donors that their zakah is in safe hands: reviewed against IFA’s Zakah Policy and listed on a register anyone can check.
Get certified