In the Islam there are five basic pillars. Zakat or Zakah is one part of them. Any one who believe at Islam, he must have follows these pillars which are Shahada (Faith declaration), Namaz (Salah or prayers), Roza (Fasting or Sawm), Zakat (Zakah) and Hajj (Pilgrimage). Learn more about Zakat ki Ahmiyat in Islam (Importance of Zakat) and Definition of Zakat in this article.
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Definition of Zakat
Zakaat is a kind of charity (sadaqah) that is obligatory at the time of breaking the fast (Before end holy month Ramadan) of Ramadan. The word zakaat is connected by idaafah (genitive structure in Arabic grammar) to fitr. Because the occasion of breaking the fast is the reason why this zakat becomes obligatory. There are many narrations about Zakat ki Ahmiyat In Islam.
Here You can calculate how much zakat is due upon your wealth.
The literal meaning of Zakat is to purify. In religious terms, zakat is a specific portion of a Muslim’s wealth that paid after the year of wealth is purified. The command to pay Zakat is also given in the Qur’an.
Zakat ki Ahmiyat, About (Charity) In Quran
It is not righteousness that yet turn your faces to the East or the West; but righteous is the who believe in Allah and the Last Day and the Angles and the Scripture and the Prophets. And give his wealth, for Him, to kinsfolk and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer. To those who ask, and to set slaves free, and observer proper worship and payee the poor-due. And those who keep their treaty who they make one, and the patient in tribulation and adversity and times of stress. Such are the God-fearing.
(Al-Baqara: 177)
Establish prayer and pay Zakat. (Al-Quran)
Zakat is Obligatory On Only a Few People, The Details of Which Are As Follows
- Being a Muslim
- Person should be free
- He should be adult
- To be wise
- Wealth out of necessities of life
- Person don’t be in debt.
- Passing a year on wealth
- Wealth crossed the limit of nisab
If any of these conditions are not met, then Zakat is not obligatory on such a person
We have to know about the nisab ( value of wealth) in order to determine if a person has a Nisab.
What is The Value of Nisab and Zakat ki Ahmiyat in Islam
Being a master of Nisab means that after becoming the owner of a certain amount of wealth, Zakat becomes obligatory after one year of that wealth. You can used zakat calculator to check may you illegible to pay it. Zakat is actually obligatory on the completion of seven and a half tolas of gold, fifty-two and a half tolas of silver and other goods of the same amount. Remember that these items are in addition to the necessities of life. Zakat ki Ahmiyat in Islam
The wealth of Zakat is two and a half percent of the total wealth. Zakat paid on the crop yield of rainfed land at 10% and on canal land at 5%. Apart from this, Zakat also paid on animals. One sheep / goat given as Zakat on forty sheep / goats. One cow for thirty cows and one goat for five camels given as Zakat.
The wealth of Zakat is two and a half percent of the total wealth.
Zakat can be given to types of people.
Poor people, The perpetrators, in the way of God
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Our beloved Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: The upper hand (giver) is better than the lower hand (taker). They hoard up gold and silver and do not spend it in the way of Allah. Give them glad tidings of a painful punishment.
(Surat at-Tawbah: 2)