2.2.4 - Zakah
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- 2.2.4 - Zakah
- Khums
- Shi'a 10 Obligatory Acts
- 20% of excess earnings
- Paid once a year
- Help the poor, support Islamic organisations
- Originally collected by Muhammad. After death, Sunni's stop paying. Shi'a paid to further Imams and now to religious scholars
- Anyone who keeps money they should have paid = money becomes haram [forbidden]
- For Sunni's
- Purify a person's heart of greed
- Minimum amount to pay = nisab
- Can pay using livestock and produce, not just money
- UK
- 2.5% above nisab
- Collected at local mosques
- Distributed to needy and religious purposes
- Muslim countries
- Government collect it like tax
- If receive money, feel blessed by Allah
- Way of making society fairer, show concern for those in need
- Sadaqah = further voluntary donations, no limits or guidelines
- Muhammad linked charity to being saved from hell
- Khums
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