Malaysia in general and the state of Kedah in particular are often hit by various natural disasters such as floods, storms as well as fires and other disasters involving the Muslim community. A disaster is an event that causes disruption to community activities and state affairs, involving loss of life, property damage, economic loss and environmental destruction beyond the community's ability to cope. This requires extensive resource mobilization. For the state of Kedah, only two groups of asnaf, the poor and the poor, are allocated the share of zakat involving disasters such as fire, storm and flood. The main goal of this study is to identify the type of assistance provided by the Kedah State Zakat Board (LZNK) to disaster victims in the state of Kedah, then examine the position of disaster-related zakat distribution based on classic benchmarks and contemporary needs in the state of Kedah and finally suggest a form of model Comprehensive distribution of zakat to disaster victims in the state of Kedah. In order to obtain data related to the objective of the study, several methods are used in accordance with the data habits of the qualitative research type. Library methods are used to obtain the views of Islamic scholars regarding zakat that can be given to the community due to disasters. While the interview method was used to obtain the premier data in this study. Interviews involved disaster-related agencies such as LZNK, NADMA/APM of the state of Kedah and the Department of Social Welfare of the State of Kedah (JKM). For library data, descriptive, inductive and deductive thematic analysis methods are used. As for the interview data, the analysis was done using the Nvivo 11 application. The results of the study show that past and contemporary scholars have expressed some views about the parties involved in the disaster to be distributed from the sources of zakat. There are 5 groups among the specified asnaf zakat, namely the poor, the poor, al-Gharimun, Ibn al-Sabil and Muallafah Qulubuhum. For LZNK, it is suggested that disaster victims be given zakat assistance by expanding to asnaf other than the poor and needy such as al-Gharimun, Ibn al-Sabil and Muallafah Qulubuhum involving disaster victims during the disaster and immediately after the disaster
Dahlan et al. (Sun,) studied this question.