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The distribution of Zakat al-Fitr is the same as that of Zakat, and is included within its broader sense. Those who may receive Zakat al-Fitr are the eight categories of recipients mentioned in Surat Al-Tawbah, [9: 60]. They include: the poor, the needy, collectors of Zakah, reconciliation of hearts, freeing captives / slaves (fee al-Riqab),
Zakat (or Zakāh) is one of the five pillars of Islam. Zakat is the Arabic word for "Giving to Charity" or "Giving to the Needy". [a] [3] Zakat is a form of almsgiving, often collected by the Muslim Ummah. [1] It is considered in Islam a religious obligation, [4] [5] and by Quranic ranking, is next after prayer in importance. [6]
However, the amount of zakat paid on capital assets (e.g. money) and stock-in-trade and jewelry is customarily 2.5% (1/40). [8] Zakat is also payable on agricultural goods, precious metals, minerals, and livestock at a rate varying between 2.5 and 20 percent, depending on the type of goods.
Muhammad said there was an obligation to pay zakat in the second year of Hijrah, marking the division of the practice of zakat into the Mecca and the Medina phases. [7] The initial stage of zakat development spanned 23 years, during which the Badawi community in Mecca implemented a system of contributing properties to support the needy. [8]
zakat - one of the five pillars of Islam. Only imposed on Muslims, it is generally described as a 2.5% tax on savings to be donated to the Muslim poor and needy. [1] [2] It was a tax collected by the Islamic state.
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In Pakistan Zakat is levied on sahib-e-nisab, i.e. a person who owns or possesses assets liable to Zakat under Shariah equal to or more than nisab, (about US $300, calculated according to the value of 612.32 grams of silver [6]). [1] There are eleven types of assets liable to Zakat "detailed in 1st schedule of Zakat & Ushr Ordinance 1980". [7]
Ronni Katz, a former public health official in Portland, Maine, recalled the devastating impact of the state’s two-year lifetime limit on Suboxone. She said Medicaid recipients were cut off at the beginning of 2013 from their prescriptions and many relapsed. “People were suddenly left without their dose,” she said. “They had to do ...