ZAKAT (Poor Due, Alms)

WHAT IS ZAKAT

1. The term “Zakat” originally means: growth, and purity.

2. In Islamic Law, it means paying every lunar year a certain percentage of your
savings to certain charitable usage defined by The Qur’an.

3. If you have, for that period, an amount of money equal to the value of 85 grams of
pure gold (now 1985, is about $1000) or more, you must pay 2.5%.

4. Zakat is paid for the poor and the needy Muslims, for the wayfarers, for
propagating Islam or fighting for Islam, for helping new Muslims or encouraging
non-Muslims to embrace Islam, for those who are burdened with debts and are
unable to pay them.

5. If you have articles of trade, you calculate their Zakat in the same way.

6. You can ask some Muslim scholar or refer to any good reference book to know
more about Zakat.


WHY WE PAY ZAKAT

To show devotion to Allah Who commanded us to do so and informed us that Heloves the charitable.