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AN IMPORTANTPOINT TO
REMEMBER
The Benefits of Zakah
1) Being a religious duty, it offers the donor the inner
satisfaction of a duty accomplished. The funds onwhich Zakah has been paid bring satisfaction and
reward in this world and the next; funds on which no
Zakah ment in this world and the hereafter. The very wordhas been paid will bring suffering and punish-
Zakah means ‘sweetening’ too and it implies that those
funds on which no Zakah has been paid are ‘bitter’.
2)eliminates class and economic barriers, class animosi-Zakahmakes for social welfare and solidarity and
ty and hatred; it eliminates arrogance on the part of the
giver and humiliation on the part of the receiver.3) The need to pay Zakahacts as a stimulus to invest-
ment of income in productive enterprise, for capital that
is allowed to remain idle would would progressivelydiminish in Zakah levies. Invested in production, it adds
to society’s wealth and could help in job creation.
Zakah also has the basic meaning ‘to grow’: wealth
grows with spending and investment.4) Zakah is a great promoter of wealth circulation
throughout society, which is one of the main features of
any healthy economy. The Qur’an con demns the accu-mulation and circulation of wealth in the hands of the
rich only.
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There are six other catagories of people, beside
the poor and needy, who can receive Zakah. With the
help of your parents or elder siblings find out who
they are and list them in the space provided. Chapter
9, verse 60 of the Holy Qur’ancontains the answer.
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