Categories : Alms

Zakat, with its innumerable facets, is a bond between members of society, one  wherein collective harmony is dependent on individual harmony. For zakat explicitly creates a virtuous setting that eliminates various social problems by establishing a harmonious atmosphere for both the ri

ALMS OF FITR (Charity in Islam) The monetary worship or charity that is carried out during the month of Ramadan is called Alms (Islamic charity) of Fitr. Worship, such as fasting, reciting the Quran, performing the tarawih prayer, searching for the Night of Qadr and the assessment of

Zakat, with its specific nisab (required minimum wealth) and conditions, was decreed compulsory after the decree of fasting, in the second year of the Hijra, during the Medinan Period. Scores of verses pronounce, unambiguously, the obligation of zakat. Among these are the following ex

It is a known fact that because the main area of religious focus during the Meccan period was the elucidation of the fundamental articles of faith, the jurisdictional decrees of Islam were predominantly made obligatory in the Medina Period. As an example of this, though zakat was touc

WHICH POSSESSIONS ARE SUBJECT TO ZAKAT? The issue of trying to determine how much zakat needs to be spared from a certain item, and leveling what proportion, are all predicated upon the Qur’an and Sunna. Despite the Qur’an’s  ardent  emphasis  on zakat,  it  has no specific pronouncem

WHO IS LIABLE FOR ZAKAT? Before collecting zakat from the obliged, it is essential to first ascertain who these individuals are. This requires certain prerequisites, like the knowledge of Islam, freedom, wealth, sanity, maturity—in addition to the requirements concerning wealth, namel

CAN ZAKAT BE PAID BY WAY OF ESTIMATION? Islam permanently constructs its verdicts on robust foundations, thus guessing or estimating the  amount  of  due zakat, a method prevalently resorted to in agriculture, is not desirable, simply because more often than not, the ultimate result d

WHO ARE THE RECIPIENTS OF ZAKAT? he Qur’an has explicitly delineated the recipients of zakat with the verse, “Alms are only for the poor and the needy, and those who collect them and for those whose hearts are to be reconciled, and for the ransom of captives and debtors and for the wa

Islam views wealth realistically – as an essential aspect of life and the main means of individual and group subsistence. God Almighty says: Do not give to those devoid of good judgment and sanity your property, which God has put in your charge as means of support for you (and t