Post by Jamil on Aug 13, 2004 12:26:09 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]Zakat, The Obligatory Charity[/glow]
Zakat is one of the major religious duties in Submission (Islam in Arabic). It is the obligatory charity that every Submitter (Muslim in Arabic) should pay year around. Literal Meaning: Zakat means grow (in goodness) or 'increase', 'purifying' or 'making pure'.
The vital importance of Zakat is reflected in God's law:
"My mercy encompasses all things, but I will specify it for the righteous who give Zakat" (7:156).
Zakat must be given away "on the day of harvest" (6:141). Whenever we receive "net income," the "known amount" of Zakat should be paid or set aside. (see 70:24) This known amount as God calls it, is 2.5%. This is the ONLY "known amount" to the submitters (Muslims). This amount, 2.5% was passed down to us, generation after generation, like Salat, from the time of Abraham to our time. We must set aside 2.5% and give it to the specified recipients - the parents, relatives, orphans, the poor, and the traveling alien, in this order (2:215).
Zakat must be carefully calculated and given away on a regular basis whenever we receive any income. Government taxes should be deducted, but not other expenses such as debts, mortgages, and living expenses. If one does not know needy persons, he or she may give the Zakat to a mosque or charitable organization with the distinct purpose of helping poor people. Charities given to mosques or hospitals or organizations cannot be considered Zakat.
As we see from 6:141, Zakat should be paid all year around and not only during the month of Ramadan or at the beginning of the year. Most of the Muslim masses have been misled by their scholars who abandoned the Quran and followed corrupted hadiths that contradict the Quran. These corrupted hadiths ignored the Quran and made a new classification of Zakat that was never mentioned in the Quran. These corrupted hadiths limited Zakat to Ramadan and to the beginning of the year.
The believers can easily verify that there is ONLY one Zakat in the Quran. This Zakat in the Quran is not connected with the fasting of Ramadan as the Scholars and the hadithists made people to believe. God is all Merciful, He knows that the poor and the needy are not only poor and needy during the month of Ramadan but during the whole year. In 6:141 , God is telling us to give our due Zakat at the time we collect our income. If you receive a pay check every two weeks, your Zakat, (2.5%) is due the same day you receive the check. You pay it immediately or set it aside to pay it as soon as possible to the recipients defined in the Quran. The poor and the needy shall receive their money every week, two weeks or every month,..etc. like you and not once a year or once every Ramadan, as the corrupted scholars teach.
[glow=red,2,300]True believers will pay their Zakat all year around including and not limited to the month of Ramadan. God is All Merciful, He left nothing out of His book, the Glorious Quran, see 6:38
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Zakat is one of the major religious duties in Submission (Islam in Arabic). It is the obligatory charity that every Submitter (Muslim in Arabic) should pay year around. Literal Meaning: Zakat means grow (in goodness) or 'increase', 'purifying' or 'making pure'.
The vital importance of Zakat is reflected in God's law:
"My mercy encompasses all things, but I will specify it for the righteous who give Zakat" (7:156).
Zakat must be given away "on the day of harvest" (6:141). Whenever we receive "net income," the "known amount" of Zakat should be paid or set aside. (see 70:24) This known amount as God calls it, is 2.5%. This is the ONLY "known amount" to the submitters (Muslims). This amount, 2.5% was passed down to us, generation after generation, like Salat, from the time of Abraham to our time. We must set aside 2.5% and give it to the specified recipients - the parents, relatives, orphans, the poor, and the traveling alien, in this order (2:215).
Zakat must be carefully calculated and given away on a regular basis whenever we receive any income. Government taxes should be deducted, but not other expenses such as debts, mortgages, and living expenses. If one does not know needy persons, he or she may give the Zakat to a mosque or charitable organization with the distinct purpose of helping poor people. Charities given to mosques or hospitals or organizations cannot be considered Zakat.
As we see from 6:141, Zakat should be paid all year around and not only during the month of Ramadan or at the beginning of the year. Most of the Muslim masses have been misled by their scholars who abandoned the Quran and followed corrupted hadiths that contradict the Quran. These corrupted hadiths ignored the Quran and made a new classification of Zakat that was never mentioned in the Quran. These corrupted hadiths limited Zakat to Ramadan and to the beginning of the year.
The believers can easily verify that there is ONLY one Zakat in the Quran. This Zakat in the Quran is not connected with the fasting of Ramadan as the Scholars and the hadithists made people to believe. God is all Merciful, He knows that the poor and the needy are not only poor and needy during the month of Ramadan but during the whole year. In 6:141 , God is telling us to give our due Zakat at the time we collect our income. If you receive a pay check every two weeks, your Zakat, (2.5%) is due the same day you receive the check. You pay it immediately or set it aside to pay it as soon as possible to the recipients defined in the Quran. The poor and the needy shall receive their money every week, two weeks or every month,..etc. like you and not once a year or once every Ramadan, as the corrupted scholars teach.
[glow=red,2,300]True believers will pay their Zakat all year around including and not limited to the month of Ramadan. God is All Merciful, He left nothing out of His book, the Glorious Quran, see 6:38
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