Zakat is one of the pillars of Islam, it is considered as Islamic financial system. The paper aims at discussing the opinions of Muslim scholars regarding the permissibility of granting a soft loan from the Zakat sources ؛ by spending their resources in ways that are not specified by the Qur’an, and the Sunnah. The research methodology applied in this paper is analytical and inductive methods which are adopted to study the view of classical and contemporary scholars, and to analyzing the views of advanced and contemporary jurists. Muslim scholars have different opinions regarding the permissibility of granting a soft loan from the Zakat sources based to various doctrines as follows: the first opinion States that it is permissible to grant soft loan using zakat revenues ؛ this opinion was supported by Al-Maududi, Abdulrahman khalaf and Abu-Zuhra among others. The Second opinion says that it is forbidden to grant soft loan using zakat revenues ؛ this was seconded by Rafiq Yunuss, Jadal Al-hāqī and others. The Third opinion SHEHRBANO