Zakah is one of Islam’s pillars and great foundations. It is Joined by Allah The Almighty with prayer in many locations of His Glorious Book. The source of its obligation lies in the Quran, the ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His slave and messenger. If ...

My beloved people! In Islam, Zakah is the fourth pillar. Zakah refers to purification in general and purification of wealth in particular, therefore, those Muslims who have wealth over a certain ratio ...

Being the most honored in the sight of God, a believer is required to fulfill all his needs, be they material or spiritual, proportionately because such balance in all spheres of one’s life allows one ...

The first misconception that people have pertaining to Zakah is that it is to be paid in the month of Ramadan only. Although Ramadan is a month of being charitable, however, it in no way means that a ...

Banjul — Introduction With the beginning of the new Muslim calendar, it is appropriate to remind myself and our Muslim brothers and sisters of their divine obligation of Zakah in order to help them ...

This article had been published in this column in the recent past. But many readers have called for its republication for further guidance about the payment of Zakah especially in this sacred month.

Perhaps you knew. Perhaps you didn’t know that Zakah plays such a central role in Islam that the other four pillars only rotate around its axis. By the ‘central’ position it occupies among the five ...

Shimon Grossman is a smiling twenty-five years old young man whom my husband and I met on the short flight from Bucharest to Tel-Aviv. He sat next to us, dressed in western clothes, with only his ...

11 August 2005 Q.1. A Muslim in Canada works in a bank where his job involves providing capital for clients to ensure that they can carry out their projects. All such deals involve interest. Is such ...