Question 445) - How should it be given? Must you say, "This is Zakah"?

A: There is no need to expose that. one may give it in the guise of a gift as long as one intended it as Zakah, the Zakah is fulfilled. The recipient must also be of the categories we explained who are entitled to take Zakah and may not be of Banu Hashim.

~ al-Quduri ~