Zakah

Ramadan is a time of reflection and charity, making it the perfect time to give Zakah. Your Zakah donations purify your wealth and support vital initiatives including student education, hall rentals, Islamic seminars for children, and our ongoing mosque project. Your generosity helps us continue our work and support the community.

Ramadan and Zakah

What is Zakah ?

Zakat is one of the five pillars of Islam. Zakat is a form of alms paid on one’s wealth to those in need. It is paid at a rate of 2.5% on most types of wealth, provided the wealth exceeds a minimum level known as the nisab.

Zakat literally means abundance, enhancement, cleanliness and being pure. Zakat is an annual financial worship that an eligible Muslim gives to one of the eight classes determined by Allah, Zakat is one fortieth of their wealth year after year in order to abide with Allah's command.

وَاَق۪يمُوا الصَّلٰوةَ وَاٰتُوا الزَّكٰوةَۜ وَمَا تُقَدِّمُوا لِاَنْفُسِكُمْ مِنْ خَيْرٍ تَجِدُوهُ عِنْدَ اللّٰهِۜ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ بَص۪يرٌ

Establish prayer, give zakah, and whatever good you put forward for yourselves - you will find it with Allah. Indeed, Allah knows of what you do, is all Seeing. (al-Baqarah 110)

These eight classes are reported in the 60th verse of Surah of At-Tawbah:

• Zakah expenditures are only for the poor

• For the needy

• For those employed to collect [zakah]

• For bringing hearts together [for Islam]

• For freeing captives [or slaves]

• For those in debt

• For the cause of Allah

• For the [stranded] traveler - an obligation [imposed] by Allah . And Allah is Knowing and Wise.

It is not permissible to give Zakat to a person who owns the amount of Nisab. However, it is permissible to give Zakat to scholars and students who are studying the Quran and it’s teachings.

Our Prophet (s.a.w.); "Even if a person who is learning knowledge has 40 years' of subsistence, it is permissible to give him Zakat."