The 5 Pillars: Zakat

Zakat

ZAKAT = compulsory giving of a set proportion of one’s wealth to charity, 2.5% of one’s wealth per year

SADAQAH = to give money voluntarily to charity

Benefits:

• helping the poor

• obeying God

• A person acknowledging that everything comes from God as a loan, people do not really own anything themselves

• We do not take anything with us when we die, therefore we do not need it

• We are poor or rich by choice of God, therefore we should help those who are poor

• learn self-discipline

• freeing oneself from the love of possessions or money or the love of oneself

• Honesty

‘Oh you who believe! Give in charity of the good things you earn and of what we (God) have brought forth for you out of the…