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What Can Zakât Do for Society?
One of the Quran’s major themes is social justice forthose whom society disadvantages and compassion for the vulnerable. God says in the Quran:
  As for the believing men and the believing women—all [of them] are allies of one another. They enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong. Moreover, they [duly] establish the Prayer, and give the Zakât-Charity, and they obey God and His Messenger. It is these upon whom God shall
have mercy. Indeed, God is overpowering, all-wise. (Al Tawbah, 9:71)

[color=#006600]What Does the Mention of Zakât in this Verse Mean?[/color]
Mention of Zakât here is significant. It points to the characteristics of a fully functional (and fully human) community, promoting care and love between each other by
(a) guaranteeing justice unto the least of them, while
(b)shielding the weak from injury.
This two-part functionality is then directly pinned to raising one’s spiritual consciousness through the Salât-Prayer and raising one’s social consciousness by paying the Zakât-Charity. These special items—among all the commands of Allah and His Messenger œ—Allah has highlighted for scrupulous maintenance.  This is no utopian call. On the contrary, it is a minimum acceptable moral standard for a working human community.
Zakât plays a key role in bringing about such a model society. It not only enshrines the right of help for the community’s needy, facilitating ongoing support from the rich to the poor, but, in so doing, it builds a relationship of consideration and appreciation between society’s members.

olawalebab:
Hmm, there are many i'll do it one per post. Chamber2, his analysis indept is awesome, always ready to share his knowledge with others

Thank God, I meet him today.

bandiejay:
If this Team cannot[b] FLY[/b] Nigeria i bet it they will RUN Nigeria   and STOP Corruption 60% 

And we can start from there. Good one

[quote author=Emeka 7. link=topic=654114.msg9996990#msg9996990 date=1326953257]I'd simply be Myself.[/quote]That's lovely

bandiejay:
Buhari , president

Ribadu, Vice president

Sanusi , Minister of Finance

Elrufai, Senate president

Dora Akuyili , Minister For health

You presented a good combination, but can this TEAM fly in Nigeria?

She has not been suspended, the call was made by civil society, the way AIT scroll it cause the confusion.

@ Dis Guy, he's from Zaria city in Kaduna state.

Ola-pluto, by then Buhari may not have the phsical stamina for the office, just as you said, one of the three will make a good president.

How will you belive this people now, they don't have the interest of this country at heart, imagine all this charade.

Jarus, you just present the best of Hausa/Fulani (el rufai is from Zaria) vis a vis Nigeria, They all have strong passion for the country. For me El-rufai is ahead of the two in term of Intellectual prowess, (SLS even confirm it), Sanusi will have the day when Integrity is the factor, while Ribadu will top when we consider the passion they have for the country. In short, it is difficult to call between the three.

@Tbaba, You can't give what you don't have.

[quote author=emöfine link=topic=654114.msg9992598#msg9992598 date=1326896483]Lazarus - I wanna know how it feels like to walk through the valley of the shadow of death [/quote]interesting

okosodo:
Muslims are funny people. Killing is a food for them , they have to kill as much christians as possible. What if christians retaliate

Do you understand the thread, read again before you comment

kemmeye:
LADY GAGA. luv her foreva

I don't want to mention this, but i will. Odunnu, the way she interact with members remind me of my nursery 'aunt'. Friendly, blunt and discipline.

Hmm, there are many i'll do it one per post. Chamber2, his analysis indept is awesome, always ready to share his knowledge with others

Hmm, there are many i'll do it one per post. Chamber2, his analysis indept is awesome, always ready to share his knowledge with others

Simply name the NLer you will love to meet and give reason for choosing the person.

cluelessness

That is one of the SURE-P plan

ombudsmen:
sorry bruv i didnt mean anything wrong, maybe i was too busy check out that new [size=50pt]easykobo [/size] site.

you are welcome

nagoma:
@Olawalebab

The Senior Special Adviser to the President on MDGs is not Hajia Amina but Mrs. Precious K. Gbeneol. (of course Mrs.  Gbeneol is from[b] the Niger Delta[/b])

Thanks for that, i thought the lady is still there, you just introduce another dimension to it, i mean the bolded

Pius Adesanmi wrote

Questions for Annkio Briggs, Muhajid Dokubo Asari and other aspiring ethnicist dilettantes: (1) where were you when Gani Fawehinmi and Femi Falana defended Ken Saro-Wiwa at the tribunal? (2) where were you when Wole Soyinka, Femi Falana, Yinka Odumakin, Biodun Sowunmi, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Joe Okei-Odumakin, Tolu Ogunlesi, Chxta Bee, Okey Ndibe, and thousands of Nigerians across the ethnic divide at home and abroad, fought to rescue Goodluck Jonathan from Yar'Adua's cabal and Hurricane Turai? (3) where were you when Femi Falana took on the defense of Henry Okah? Occupy Nigeria is bigger than Goodluck Jonathan. Occupy Nigeria is bigger than your ethnicist reductionism. Goodluck Jonathan is the President of Nigeria, not the President of the Ijaw or the Niger Delta and Nigerians have the right to hold his feet to the fire, especially if we are not satisfied with his performance. You have no right to insult the legitimate and patriotic desire of the Nigerian people for structural and systemic change with your ethnicist caterwauling

http://www.facebook.com/padesanmi

You forget to add Dr Tunji Olagunju Special Adviser on NEPAD ,
Dr Akinyosore Special Adviser on Foreign relation,
what about Hajia Amina,Special adviser on MDG.
Overbloated Government.

frosbel:
Let me burst your bubble bro Sweetie ( ) , Mo ( SAW ) is not the comforter, he could hardly comfort his own supporters talk less of mankind.

Mo ( SAW ) was a friend of the destroyer who in the bible is called SATAN. He destroyed lives !!

Think about it .

you are still using this your old strategy. Simple Questions, simple answer, don't evade the 2 questions.

ombudsmen:
@OLAWALEBAB

UBA is no longer Nigeria's no.1 back.

you should re-check. i think its either access or GT Bank or Stanbic or Ecobank.

I know, read my post well.

maclatunji:
^I am genuinely concerned for your health David. You shouldn't continue like this- you are losing touch with reality!

My 'short' stay on NL, Islam for muslim section, i have witness frosbel crusade, Aloy crusade, it is now David. he go soon tire.

egift:
More like One week - More trouble.

correct

What are the benefits of Zakaat


Zakât Makes One Aware that All Wealth Is God’s
In many verses of the Quran, Allah speaks of the believers as those who spend charitably from what We have provided them. This implies, as commentators note, the believers’ inner conviction that all that they own and possess is a gift and favor from God. None of it is of their own
making, or a result of their special intelligence, gift, or knowledge. If one believes that his wealth and fortune are a result of his own labor and talent, this reflects a serious lack of understanding and insight on his or her part. Allah states several times over in the Quran that wealth and poverty are in His hands. For it is God ØaloneÆ who withholds and extends Øreward and abundant provisionÆ (Al-Baqarah, 2:245). Whether people work hard all their lives for little or rest as wealth flows to them, let them ask themselves with humility, “Who controls the events in our day-to-day lives that add up to our worldly fortunes and earthly possesion.

Zakât Purifies the Soul of Miserliness
Islam recognizes the human being’s instinctive desire for riches and the soul’s propensity to selfishness: Yet beware that avarice is ever-present in the human soul (Al-Nisâ’, 4:128). When one pays Zakât from one’s wealth, one gives up a portion of what God has lent one in this life to help the needy. This directly counteracts greed and materialism—essential discipline for a creature so given topassionate attachment to possession.

Zakât is a Cure for the Love of Worldly Things
Accumulation of wealth enables one to spend it on worldly diversion and objects. The nature of material attraction, says late Austrian translator and commentator Muhammad Asad, is such that one object is desired and acquired only to make room for the next desired object: At no time before this had greed outgrown a mere eagerness to acquire things and become an obsession that blurred the sight of everything else; an irresistible craving to get, to do, to contrive more and more—more today than yesterday, and more tomorrow than today: A demon riding on the necks of men and whipping their hearts forward toward goals that tauntingly glitter in the distance but dissolve into contemptible nothingness as soon as they are reached, always holding out the promise of new goals ahead—goals still more brilliant, more tempting as long as they lie on the horizon, and bound to wither into further nothingness as soon as they come within grasp. (Asad, The Road to Mecca, 310) It is a bitter, never-ending cycle existing only to make one lose sight of man’s real destination: The Hereafter. Zakât helps break that cycle by forcing one to spend money on things that bring to him directly no purely worldly benefit.

Zakât Trains One to Give
By paying Zakât every year, one develops a habit of giving and helping the poor. It is likely that this will become permanent, and one will continue to help those in need with Zakât and |adaqah (voluntary charity).
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Zakât Trains One to Mirror Divine Qualities[/color]
One of Allah’s divine attributes is absolute mercy. By giving Zakât and helping the destitute, one nurtures a disposition of mercy and compassion toward others, and the soul rises above the lowly, animalistic nature of covetousness,

Zakât as an Expression of Thankfulness to God
By paying Zakât out of sense of submission to Allah, one expresses thanks and gratitude to Him for the material blessings He has bestowed. For it is God who makes one poor or rich. The great legist and mystic Al-Ghazâlî says that one offers thanks to Allah for the bounties of creation (such as health) by praying, and shows thanks to Him for the bounties of material wealth by paying Zakât on it.

[color=#000099]Zakât Improves Ties of Mutual Love[/color]
People love those who do good to them for the sake of God. Zakât helps the poor appreciate the rich for their giving and praying for them, while it teaches the rich to soften their hearts and show concern for the poor. Thus Zakât bonds the two parties together by increasing their
mutual appreciation.

What Is the Effect of Zakât’s Purification on People?

Zakât seeks especially to fix in our remembrance the right of the poor, that they should not be forgotten or neglected, so as to sustain their human dignity. For this reason, the Hanafite School of Islamic Law disallows the paying of the Zakât-Charity to other eligible categories of people in need (see Sûrat Al-Tawbah, 9:60) until those in poverty are sufficed. Islam elevates the entitlement of the indigent to a religious rite of devotion. Hence, every earning Muslim who acquires means beyond the most basic needs of oneself and one’s dependents is duty-bound to pay materially into the
obligatory institution of Zakât in order to obtain for him or herself in exchange a clear godly end. The result is a sacred act of worship offered by the believer that inures to the tangible socio-economic benefit of all humankind. From its advent, Islam has enshrined the right of the poor in its creed with the social purpose of abolishing poverty and removing any need for the destitute to advocate on their own behalf or, ultimately, to be forced to rebel against society in order to gain their God-given right to sustenance and human dignity.

careytommy:
what is UBA doing in that list?

You mean Nigeria No 1 bank. Local bank with international coverage

DJTee:
Oh yeah His N620billion overhanded "bail out" and wuru wuru "AMCONisation" of 8 banks which is largely unaccounted for is part of the reason why the govt is so broke and we have now to contend with subsidy removal. . .

That is not what make the govt broke,rather the millions expended on execution of election, moreover that money is a "loan" that was later converted to equity