The 8 categories of eligible recipients for Zakat are mentioned in the Quran: “Alms are only for the poor and the needy, and those who collect them [Zakat], those whose hearts are to be reconciled, captives, debtors, in the cause of Allah, and wayfarers…“. Refugees fall under at least four of these categories: the poor, the needy, the debtors and the wayfarers.