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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

Sadaqa al-fitr must be paid by every free Muslim whose wealth meets one’s basic needs and has extra wealth equal to 600 grams of silver. A Muslim must pay it for himself, his wife, children, and servants at the end of Ramadan to purify those who fast, to protect them from indece

Factors  of  economic  revitalization,  in  Islam,  are  not  reserved just to zakat.  In fact,  the sadaqa al-fitr (charity of fast breaking), sacrifice, aqiqa (sacrifice offered in celebration and gratitude  of  a  newborn  child), walima  (the  wedding  feast), eid  (religious  fes

Literally, fitr means breaking the fast or creation. The sadaqa al-fitr, however, is a financial obligation for Muslims who at the time of the Festivity of Ramadan, possess more than the prescribed amount of provisions for themselves and their dependents after giving the sadaqa al-fit

Here are the conditions for obligation:   BEING A MUSLIM To be under the obligation of sadaqa al-fitr, one needs to be a Muslim. According to the Shafii School, however, a non-Muslim also needs to pay sadaqa al-fitr for those Muslims of kindred living under his care.   POSSE