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Eligibility Criteria

Residency

To qualify for benefits, applicants need to be residents of the Metropolitan Seattle/Puget Sound region. We regret that we'll be unable to respond to or process your request for assistance if we determine that you aren't a resident of the metropolitan Seattle/Puget Sound region.

Type of Assistance

At this time we are only able to assist in the following categories
      • Housing/Rent
      • Food
      • Utilities
      • Transportation
      • Medical


Guiding Principles 

Quranic Guidelines

The following people are eligible for zakat /sadaqa (it is an obligation to spend on our local community first):
      • The Poor--
      • The Needy (those who ask and those who don't)--
      • Those employed to collect and distribute zakat--
      • Those who embraced Islam recently--
      • To free slaves--
      • Those who are in debt--
      • In the way of Allah for the propagation of Islam--
      • Welfare to other nations.

Reference From Quran:

It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces Towards east or West; but it is righteousness- to believe in Allah and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Book, and the Messengers; to spend of your substance, out of love for Him, for your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves; to be steadfast in prayer, and practice regular charity; to fulfill the contracts which ye have made; and to be firm and patient, in pain (or suffering) and adversity, and throughout all periods of panic. Such are the people of truth, the Allah-fearing.  
Qurán 2:177

 Alms are for the poor and the needy, and those employed to administer the (funds); for those whose hearts have been (recently) reconciled (to Truth); for those in bondage and in debt; in the cause of Allah. and for the wayfarer: (thus is it) ordained by Allah, and Allah is full of knowledge and wisdom. 
Qurán 9:60

The parable of those who spend their substance in the way of Allah is that of a grain of corn: it groweth seven ears, and each ear Hath a hundred grains. Allah giveth manifold increase to whom He pleaseth: And Allah careth for all and He knoweth all things. 
Qurán 2:261

Reference From Saying of Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him 

Narrated Asma 'bint Abi Bakr: During the period of the peace treaty of Quraish with Allah's Apostle, my mother, accompanied by her father, came to visit me, and she was a pagan. I consulted Allah's Apostle, "O Allah's Apostle! my mother has come to me and she desires to receive a reward from me, shall I keep good relation with her?" He said, "Yes, keep good relation with her."  
Sahih Muslim Book 53 Hadith 407