Understanding Nisab
Who receives Zakah?
When should Zakah be paid?
Investing & Zakah
Estimating your Zakah
Distributing your Zakah
Zakah Application
Saturna Capital Corporation,
investment adviser and administrator
for Amana Mutual Funds, hopes
to see all members of the Islamic
community prosper.
To help, we can calculate zakah
donations on behalf of investors in
affiliated accounts.
The institution of Zakah offers numerous advantages
to Muslims. Being a religious duty and an obligation
on all Muslims, it offers the donor the inner satisfaction
of a duty accomplished. It induces a feeling of pleasure
in giving up wealth by teaching that only those funds
on which the due Zakah has been paid are halal (legitimate)
for appropriation or consumption. The very word
Zakah means “sweetening,” and it implies that
those funds on which Zakah has not been paid are “bitter.” The
funds on which Zakah has been paid are promised to
give satisfaction and reward in this world and the
next (Qur'an 61:10-11); those on which no Zakah
has been paid will bring suffering and punishment
in this
world and the certain
fire of Hell (Qur'an 3:180).
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This verse means: "Take," O Messenger, a stipulated amount of alms "of their wealth," such as the obligatory Zakah, or "take" a voluntary unstipulated amount.
To "purify" is to purify them from the faults of stinginess, greed and meanness, and lack of remorse towards the needy, and other similar depravities.
To "sanctify" them is to develop and uplift themselves through righteous deeds and blessings until they are worthy of happiness on earth and in the Hereafter.
The Messenger of Allah (saws) said: "He who discharges Zakah of his property, his sins shall leave him." The Prophet Muhammad used to give to the needy all the money and gifts that exceeded his needs on a daily basis. He placed his faith in God to provide for his future needs.
