My Faith ISLAM (Grade 1-5) by Mawlana Feizel Chothia

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AN IMPORTANT

POINT TO

REMEMBER

The Benefits of

Zakah

1) Being a religious duty, it offers the donor the inner

satisfaction of a duty accomplished. The funds on

which

Zakah

has been paid bring satisfaction and

reward in this world and the next; funds on which no

Zakah

has been paid will bring suffering and punish-

ment in this world and the hereafter. The very word

Zakah

means ‘sweetening’ too and it implies that those

funds on which no

Zakah

has been paid are ‘bitter’.

2)

Zakah

makes for social welfare and solidarity and

eliminates class and economic barriers, class animosi-

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

Zakah

acts as a stimulus to invest-

ment of income in productive enterprise, for capital that

is allowed to remain idle would would progressively

diminish 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.

PT

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’an

contains the answer.

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