Zakat is a major instrument in attracting the mercy of God, as those who achieve His eternal compassion are, justifiably, those who observe divine commands. Nurturing compassion for others through taking care of their needs is, no doubt, a means to attaining that limitless treasure—C
Continue Reading →The love of property has intrinsically been a part of human inclination for many concealed purposes. Overindulgence in this fondness, however, will indubitably result in a shameful dissipation. This innate inclination possessed by human, in which overexploitation leads to miserliness,
Continue Reading →The minimum amount of zakat and its specific places of disbursement have unequivocally been delineated in the Qur’an. The person, through zakat, enters a perennially blissful path, attaining proximity to God, an aspect eloquently illustrated in the following Hadith Qudsi (the wording
Continue Reading →Zakat is multi-faceted practice.Performing Their obligations on one hand, individuals safeguard themselves from many spiritual and physical troubles and suffering on the other. In fact, from the perspective of both the benefactor and the recipient, the benefits on an individual thr
Continue Reading →Islam, as a system, is an undividable whole, and it is founded on five principles of which an absence of any renders Islam obsolete. Only in the greater part of the Meccan Period, which was rather a time of transition, were the followers exempt from performing certain deeds; however,
Continue Reading →The Qur’an advises us to perform salat, the zakat of our bodies, with utmost gracefulness, elegance and precision, while we are instructed to offer zakat from that which God has benevolently bestowed on us in order to achieve social peace and bliss. To spend what God has given us, as
Continue Reading →Past prophets have also been under obligation to take humankind by the hand and show all the roads leading to physical and spiritual ascension; thus, they too have shown the precious path of zakat as part of a primordial effort to diminish class differences in societies and to provide
Continue Reading →The term sadaqa carries the literal meanings of truth, acceptance and concurance.12 Yet in the Qur’an and hadith, the word harbors meanings of greater depth as a source of extreme kindness and benevolence, along with the occasional intimation of charity toward others, or simply refrai
Continue Reading →Zakat, literally, holds numerous meanings: to profit, to purify, to increase, to be worthy, nice, mercy, truth, blessing, to extol and to exonerate are just to mention a few. 1 All of these abundant meanings can be sighted in the Qur’an and hadith (sayings of the Prophet Muham
Continue Reading →The second important duty of servanthood is zakat. God’s Messenger, who depicts prayer as Islam’s pillar or support, describes zakat as its bridge (Canan, ibid., 6:346), for zakat not only brings the social strata closer to each other and fills in the gaps between them and
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