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Zakat, the third of Islam's five pillars, is at the root of Islam's burgeoning mosques, community centers, and schools

There are many benefits mentioned in the Ahaadeeth for the one who gives his Zakaat.

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Zakaat is essential and compulsory for one who possesses 612 grams of silver or about 88 grams of gold and one year has Passed over it and remains with him unused or consumed. If the quantity is less than this, then Zakaat will not be compulsory.

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Learn, and calculate your Zakaa. Whatever types needed; including gold, money, animals, ... etc. Translated to 7 languages.

Saudi Arabia Ministry of Information web site. A wealth of information on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia., Al-Zakat (Almsgiving)

The purpose here is to develop a better understanding of the world wide practice of Zakât. Includes email list and interactive forum.

One who does not possess so much of wealth or has very little even to be sufficient for one day, he is called a poor. Paying to and receiving by such persons of Zakaatt money is in order and permissible.

And those who hoard gold and silver and do not spend it in the way of Allah, give them tidings of a painful punishment. On that day it (i.e. the wealth) will be heated in the fire of Jahannam, then their foreheads and their flanks and their backs will be branded therewith and (it will be said to them): Here is (the treasure) which you hoarded for yourselves. Now taste that which you had been hoarding." (9:34-35)

Rasoolullah Sallallahu alayhi wasallam has warned us fourteen hundred years ago, against all those evil practices which bring calamities and afflictions in this world.

Worksheet for Zakat-ul-maal calculation

- Zakaat is one of the five fundamentals of Islaam. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said: Islaam is founded on Five Pillars: bearing witness that there is no God but Allah, and Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wasallam is His servant and apostle; establishment of Salaat; paying of Zakaat; performance of Hajj; and fasting in Ramadhaan.

If anyone inherits such Ushree land from his ancestors or purchases it from a Muslim who held it as Ushree, then Zakaat is essential on whatever is produced in the land.

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Archive of Islamic resources includes this excerpt on the third pillar of Islam from Tajuddin B. Shu`aib's book Essentials of Ramadan.