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The Benefits of Zakah<br />

1) Being a religious duty, it offers the donor the inner<br />

satisfaction of a duty accomplished. The funds on<br />

which Zakah has been paid bring satisfaction and<br />

reward in this world and the next; funds on which no<br />

Zakah has been paid will bring suffering and punishment<br />

in this world and the hereafter. The very word<br />

Zakah means ‘sweetening’ too and it implies that those<br />

funds on which no Zakah has been paid are ‘bitter’.<br />

2) Zakah makes for social welfare and solidarity and<br />

eliminates class and economic barriers, class animosity<br />

and hatred; it eliminates arrogance on the part of the<br />

giver and humiliation on the part of the receiver.<br />

3) The need to pay Zakah acts as a stimulus to investment<br />

of income in productive enterprise, for capital that<br />

is allowed to remain idle would would progressively<br />

diminish in Zakah levies. Invested in production, it adds<br />

to society’s wealth and could help in job creation.<br />

Zakah also has the basic meaning ‘to grow’: wealth<br />

grows with spending and investment.<br />

4) Zakah is a great promoter of wealth circulation<br />

throughout society, which is one of the main features of<br />

any healthy economy. The Qur’an con demns the accumulation<br />

and circulation of wealth in the hands of the<br />

rich only.<br />

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There are six other catagories of people, beside<br />

the poor and needy, who can receive Zakah. With the<br />

help of your parents or elder siblings find out who<br />

they are and list them in the space provided. Chapter<br />

9, verse 60 of the Holy Qur’an contains the answer.<br />

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