In The
Name Of Allah The Most Gracious The Most Merciful
{ Islam
}
Zakat
(Poor Due, Alms)
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 be used in certain charitable uses defined by Al-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.
