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Why Did Allah Enjoin the Zakât-Charity?
God ordained Zakât among Muslims to create the requisite conditions of a just society. Islam achieves this not by the sacred injunction of the Zakât-
Charity alone. First it infuses the individual heart with a spiritual awareness that makes a person see why it is crucial to strive with oneself to transcend the tremendous gravity of the life of the material world. It then lays down a morality of wealth that requires one to part with a fraction of the money and holdings one loves, but which weigh one down, in favor of one’s fellow human beings who are in urgent need. For this reason Zakât is a true moral criterion, a standard of conduct that paves a way to success in this life and in the Hereafter. This is also why paying Zakât is an act that purifies one’s wealth. For in the first instance, Zakât is a divine prescription that cleanses the human heart of all manner of greed and excessive material desire. These ungodly qualities it replaces with a love of God that manifests itself in an action that asserts our higher human natures over our lower, animal impulses. By paying Zakât we become obedient to God, sincere in our worship of Him, and grateful to Him for His blessing of life and guidance. So Zakât not only filters out impurity from our wealth, it decontaminates us ourselves rom sin, base character, and guilt. God says in the Quran:
Take from their wealth a charitable offering to cleanse them
and purify them thereby…. (Al-Tawbah, 9:103)

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Ola pluto, the imam there is Imam Abdul Rahman of Ansar ud deen, he condemn BH and the anti govt policies

Hope, El will not subsidized his love for you.

Bright, when will your eyes start seeing?

That's it, give in to the demand, you solve nigeria problem

How Does Zakât Differ from Taxes or Tithes?
In America, for example, the government levies an (increasingly disputed) income tax on individual earnings even before the earner, or his or her family, is provided for out of those wages. The sums can be staggering, as much as 50 percent. Many observant Christians are required to pay a “tithe” (a word that means literally a “tenth”), thus not less than 10 percent of their overall annual income. The Zakât-Charity is, for the most part, a 2.5 percent payment only on one’s “disposable” income and property—after one fulfills all one’s other financial obligations in a single lunar year. (Zakât on some kinds of wealth can go up to 20 percent, but this is a limited exception). The point is that Zakât is paid on one’s “remaining wealth,
not “total” income or holdings. The wealth one uses for daily living—for food, housing, transportation, etc.— is exempt. That is, while taxes in America
are paid on your full income before you even fulfill your vital needs, Zakât is paid only on the wealth that is left to you after you have sufficed
our own needs and those of your dependents, for a full lunar year. In sum, Zakât is a religious obligation of worship ordained by God to meet
the needs of deserving recipients who fall into one or more of eight divinely designated categories. When one pays Zakât, one’s religious obligation to pay the Zakât-Charity is fulfilled, with no worldly return—not even thanks—due to him or her by Zakât recipients for the payment. Reward is sought from God alone. A tax, on the other hand, is generally paid to enable functions of the state. Hence, a taxpayer, at least in theory, renders mandatory payments to governments for direct and indirect services received. So, while taxes diminish one’s money in exchange for eligibility in certain systems, the Zakât-Charity increases, blesses, and purifies ones wealth as worship in this world, for which God alone offers divine commendation everlastingly to the believer in the Hereafter.

Can Zakât Ever Be Substituted by Other Payments?
Again, the Zakât-Charity is obligatory not optional, worship not a tax. No matter the country one lives in, and whether one’s taxes increase or decrease, there is no substitute for paying Zakât. Zakât is a permanent and continuous Pillar of Islam. No tax can ever replace it. No circumstance can ever preclude its payment whenever it comes due. God, Himself, has made the giving of Zakât to the needy and entitled a sign of loyalty to Him.
Governments may forgive unpaid taxes, but none can absolve one of due Zakât payments—no matter how far back they accumulate—for Zakât is other people’s money. Muslim scholars, such as the Eleventh-Century Andalusian polymath Ibn ¤azm, have said that one who has failed to pay Zakât
shall have one’s due Zakât calculated at its set percentage rate and then multiplied by the years it was not paid—even if this consumes all of one’s wealth. Other scholars hold that non payment of Zakât forfeits one’s right to transact business. Moreover, if a transaction stipulates that a portion of profits shall inure to the benefit of a Zakât fund, nonpayment of that fund nullifies the contract. Zakât is a solemn obligation. The moment it falls
due upon one’s wealth, that portion no longer belongs to the wealth-holder. The poor and eligible automatically become its rightful owners. Let no believing man or woman feel content with the wealth God has granted them until they have duly distributed the Zakât due on it to the poor and
needy, who are its lawful trustees in the sight of God.

But Doesn’t Our Own Wealth Belong to Us?
Unlike other religions, Islam teaches that a person’s wealth is a loan entrusted to him or her by God, the true Owner of all things. We are simply His trustees, appointed to use and manage God’s resources for a designated time. Charity is, therefore, a right payable to the poor from the wealth
we temporarily administer on God’s behalf. Recall also that charity is a debt of worship owed by men and women to God that cleanses the remainder of their holdings. Allah states in the Quran:
➟ Moreover, give them of the wealth of God that He has given you.(Al-Nûr, 24:33)
➟You shall believe in God [alone] and His Messenger! And you shall spend [charitably] out of that [wealth] over which He has made you trustees. Then [as to] those of you who have thus believed and spent, [know that] for them there is a great reward [awaiting in the Hereafter]. (Al-¤adîd, 57:7)
More than 50 verses of the Quran remind that Allah is the sole Lord of All the Worlds. Often in the Quran, we come across the phrases ‘razaqnâhum,’ meaning ‘We have provided them,’ or ‘razaqnâkum,’ ‘We have provided you.’ The suffixed ‘We’ here is the royal ‘We,’ referring to God as the true and only sovereign, and thus the rightful Owner of all things—including all worldly wealth. Only in ignorance does a man or woman consider the wealth they momentarily control, in all its forms from real property to currency, as truly his or her own. God, its Giver, is, in fact, its true Owner. In His grace, God entrusts it to us, for a time. This means that, to some extent, the poor and rich lay equal claim to the wealth of the world. So one who pays Zakât actually “purifies” his or her money and property by separating out of it the portion that belongs to its rightful claimants and trustees; namely, the poor and all those whom the Quran specifies as eligible to receive and further manage it.

Is Zakât a Favor the Rich Grant to the Poor?
No. Like buying and selling, Zakât entails a human equation. On one side, there is the obligation of Zakât’s payment; on the other, the right to receive that payment. Zakât is a minimal obligation imposed upon the wealthy payable in full, upon rightful claim, to the needy. Zakât is alms, or obligatory charity, that primarily re-distributes money and property in society from those who have it in minimally sufficient quantities to those whose
holdings do not rise to that minimum. The Prophet œ on occasion explicitly characterized the conditions of people who were to receive Zakât. When the Prophet œ sent his Companion Mu¢âdh ibn Jabal to teach Islam to the people of Yemen, he instructed him to collect money from their wealthy and give it to their poor.

First, invite the people to bear witness there is no God but
Allah and I am His Messenger. When they so bear witness,
tell them Allah has enjoined the five daily Prayers. When
they accept this, inform them of the divine commandment
to pay the Zakât-Charity, which you shall collect from their
rich and distribute to their poor.” (Bukhârî, No. 478)

It is important to emphasize that Zakât is not a “favor” the rich bestow upon the poor. Rather, it is the “right” of the needy upon their affluent. To withhold Zakât is to deprive the poor of their due share in God’s wealth, an offense liable to divine penalty.

➟Moreover, in their wealth was a rightful share Øof charityÆ, for the beggar and the destitute. (Al-Dhâriyât, 51:19)

1. THERE MUST BE IN PLACE A LAW THAT MAKES STEALING PUBLIC FUNDS AN OFFENCE PUNISHABLE WITH PUBLIC EXECUTION.

2. THE IMMUNITY CLAUSE MUST GO BOTH AT THE FEDERAL AND STATE LEVELS .

3. THE PRESIDENT MUST SELL OFF ALL THE AIRCRAFTS IN THE PRESIDENTIAL FLEET.
( The Prime Minister of Britain a much bigger economy does not have one and travels with British Airways . )

4. THE PRESIDENT'S SALARY AND ALLOWANCES MUST NOT EXCEED $200,000 ( Our President has no reason , what so ever , to earn more than the American President. )

5. THE PRESIDENTIAL VILLA MUST BE SOLD OUT AND BE REPLACED WITH NO MORE THAN A 6-BEDROOM HOUSE.
( The british Prime Minister lives in a 3-bedroom apartment .)

6. FEEDING IN THE PRESIDENTIAL AND VP LODGE SHOULD NOT BE MORE THAN 1MILLION NAIRA PER MONTH. (Presently it is 90million Naira per month for both.)

7. NO LEGISLATOR SHALL EARN MORE THAN A PERMANENT SECRETARY.

8. NO GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL SHALL HAVE MORE THAN ONE OFFICIAL CAR.

9. NO GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL OR APPOINTEE WOULD BE ENTITLLED TO FOREIGN MEDICAL TREATMENT. (Whatever is provided for the citizens should be good enough for our officials.)

10. THERE SHALL BE NO OFFICE OF THE FIRST LADY AT THE FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEVELS.

Regards
The Nigeria People

What an insult, bin grading my joke. Cancel that post fastly

‎, Make we laugh small
We the Association of boyfriends, bachelors, fiance, and husbands will like to inform our girlfriends, fiancees, married women that we ve removed subsidy in all our expenses, " No more baby can I take a cab: pls jump the next available bus and get here on time.

No more I want to fix my hair: pls barb the hair, I love it wen you are natural.

All birthdays have been postponed till further notice.

No more pls pay for my BIS: yahoo messenger is very effective and fast, use ur Sony Ericsson.

No more paying of bride price, unless ur papa go collect post dated cheque until our refinery are repaired.

We have also removed all forms of subsidies on all activities except those relating to the bedroom for which we retain our God given authority .

We have realised that we are equal partners, hence, all expenses going forward shall be shared 50:50.

We understand the pain this might bring but we must suffer now for the future to be better.

Please if you must protest, let it be peaceful. Do not scatter the electronics, for it will lead to removal of more subsidy.

May God give us the grace to bear this upcoming pain(s).'"if U̶̲̥̅̊ cnt comply, marry ur fada"
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Isn’t the Zakât-Charity Voluntary?
Islam strongly exhorts the wealthy to donate much in voluntary charity (|adaqah). But as to alms-giving, it does not leave this to their discretion. To place the right of determining charitable minimums in the power of the affluent, is to subjugate the poor to them—a futile program, indeed, to
alleviate poverty and its related conditions. Not only does it fail to establish an amount and payment schedule the poor can count on, it provides for no external authority to legitimately compel the rich to turn an assessable wealth-portion over to the needy on an ongoing basis. People left solely to their own consciences can still grow selfish, developing justifications and rationales for not parting with the money and possessions their hearts come to hold dearly, even above all other things. Such is the human propensity in the absence of revealed faith, as Allah describes it in the Quran:
No indeed! Rather, you [human beings break the covenant of God: You] do not give generously to the orphan. Nor do you urge one another to feed the indigent. Moreover, you devour the inheritance [of others] with a devouring greed. For you love wealth with an ardent love. (Al-Fajr, 89: 17-20)


But Doesn’t Our Own Wealth Belong to Us? Unlike other religions, Islam teaches that a person’s wealth is a loan entrusted to him or her by God, the true Owner of all things. We are simply His trustees, appointed to use and manage God’s resources for a designated time. Charity is, therefore, a right payable to the poor from the wealth we temporarily administer on God’s behalf. Recall also that charity is a debt of worship owed by men and women to God that cleanses the remainder of their holdings. Allah states in
the Quran:

i Moreover, give them of the wealth of God that He has given you. (Al-Nûr, 24:33)
ii You shall believe in God [alone] and His Messenger! And you shall spend [charitably] out of that [wealth] over which He has made you trustees. Then [as to] those of you who have thus believed and spent, [know that] for them there is a great reward [awaiting in the Hereafter]. (Al-Hadîd, 57:7)
More than 50 verses of the Quran remind that Allah is the sole Lord of All the Worlds. Often in the Quran, we come across the phrases ‘razaqnâhum,’ meaning ‘We have provided them,’ or ‘razaqnâkum,’ ‘We have provided you.’ The suffixed ‘We’ here is the royal ‘We,’ referring to God as the true and only sovereign, and thus the rightful Owner of all things—including all worldly wealth. Only in ignorance does a man or woman consider the wealth they momentarily control, in all its forms from real property to currency, as truly his or her own. God, its Giver, is, in fact, its true Owner. In His grace, God entrusts it to us, for a time. This means that, to some extent, the poor and rich lay equal claim to the wealth of the world. So one who pays Zakât actually “purifies” his or her money and property by separating out of it the portion that belongs to its rightful claimants and trustees; namely, the poor and all those whom the Quran specifies as eligible to receive and further manage it.

How Does the Divine Law of Sharî¢ah Define Zakât?
As noted, Zakât is the third of the five perennial divine commands to humanity. The Prophet œ said in this regard: “Islam is built on five (pillars): Testification that there is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is His Messenger, performing the Salâh-Prayers, giving the Zakât-Charity, fasting Ramadan, and performing Hajj if one is able” (Muslim, 1, No. 0019). In terms of Law, Zakât is first and foremost a compulsory act of worship. To pay Zakât is, therefore, to obey the command of God in partial fulfillment of our divine covenant. The Companion Jarîr ibn ¢Abd’Allâh relates that the Messenger of Allah œ took a covenant directly from him to establish the ßalât-Prayer, to pay the Zakât-Charity, and to give sound advice to Muslims for their (spiritual) wellbeing (Bukhârî). This means that the Prophet œ took pledges from his Companions to permanently institutionalize the payment
of the Zakât-Charity in their lives and the life of the Muslim Community. For in the giving of Zakât one has hope of receiving Heavenly reward in the Hereafter and increase and blessing in one’s wealth in this life.


Is Paying Zakât a Condition of Faith?
Flouting the First Pillar of Islam—the testification of faith (shahâdah)—is unbelief. Neglect of any of the other four foundational pillars of islam when one is able to do them- including zakat-is a major sin. if that neglect rises to the level of outright repudition or defiance many scholars categorize this as an act of disbelief (As Sayyid Sabiq Fiquh ul sunnah3:7)there is a particular emphasis in this regards to performance of the salat (prayer) as the central pillar of worship in islam, and as we have seen. Allah as made zakat a strong corrolary of salat in the quran and sunnah of the prophet. confusion about the relationship between zakat and faith often arises out of misinform view that the zakat is Charity is comparable to a tax. The Microsoft Word dictionary, for example, defines Zakât as a “tax that goes to charity.” Yet unlike a tax, Zakât is an obligatory act of worship, the performance of which qualifies one for divine reward and whose deliberate abandonment may result in divine chastisement. The Prophet œ said: “Pay the Zakât-Charity so that your Islam becomes complete” (Bazzâr). This implies that one’s profession of faith as a Muslim is at least deficient (and possibly insincere) if one fails to pay Zakât. The first Caliph, Abû Bakr Al-ßiddîq, brought the power of the state to bear on those Muslims who renounced the due Zakât payment, though they asserted their belief in one God, the ßalât-Prayer, and the fast of Ramadan.

What Does the Word Zakât Mean?

The literal, or denotative, definition of the word ‘zakât’ (sometimes spelled ‘zakâh’) is “increase,” as in growth (namâ). The word also connotes “blessings” (barakah), “purification” (tahârah), or “commendation” (mad^).

Why Is the Word Zakât Used for Alms-Giving?
Zakât is named as such for three spiritual reasons reflected in the Arabic word: (1) God promises the blessing of “growth” in the wealth of any who pay from their money and property the charity He has obliged; (2) the Zakât-Charity “purifies” its giver of sin; and (3) zakâ may suggest ‘sweetening,’ implying that wealth on which Zakât has not been duly paid remains bitter in this life and the Hereafter.

When Was Zakât Made Mandatory? In What Form?
God commanded believers to pay the Zakât-Charity to help those in need within the first few years of the Prophet’s call in Makkah. Initially, the types of wealth it applied to and the amounts were not specified. God detailed its kind and rates nearly a decade later, in the second year after the Hijrah
(Hegira), just prior to the divine decree to fast Ramadan, as Islam’s Fourth Pillar of worship.

[color=#006600]What Is Zakât’s Special Virtue?[/color]
The Quran, along with the statements, the practice, and the approvals of the Prophet œ, makes abundantly clear that no person or society can fare well without instituting Zakât. On one hand, it purifies the soul of the believer by removing his or her sins, which draws one nearer to God and the attainment of His pleasure. On the other, it channels a nation’s prosperity to greater evenness between people, which substantially reduces their resentment and disaffection with one another.  The notable Companion of the Prophet œ, Abû Hurayrah, relates that a Bedouin once asked the Prophet to instruct him in a course of action that would cause him to enter Paradise. The Prophet œ replied: “Worship God and join not anyone with Him (in that worship)! Resolutely establish the ßalât-Prayer (in your life). Pay the Zakât-Charity (annually). And observe the fast of (the month of) Ramadan” (Bukhârî, No. 480).

How Does the Quran Address Zakât?
The Zakât-Charity accompanies the mention of the ßalât Prayer in 82 verses of the Quran. So it almost always appears in association with the Prayer, the Second (and most important) Pillar of Islam, after the testification of faith, bearing witness that God is One. Note the repeated emphasis and sequence in God’s decree in the Quran:
i. You shall [duly] establish the Prayer. And you shall give the Zakât-Charity. And you shall bow [to God in Prayer] along with those who bow [to Him]. (Al-Baqarah, 2:43)
ii. Rather, [duly] establish the Prayer. And give the Zakât Charity. And obey [the commandments of] God and His Messenger. (Al-A^zâb, 33:33)
iii.  Yet you shall [duly] establish the Prayer. And you shall give  the Zakât-Charity, and [thereby] lend God a most goodly loan. For whatever good you advance for your souls, you shall find [its reward] with God [in the Hereafter; yet] it shall be far better and much greater in reward. (Al-Muzzammil, 73:20).

Islam is a religion that is found on 5 pillars namely
1. Believe in oneness of Allah and the prophethood of muhammad
2. Observing the 5 daily salat
3. Fasting in the holy month of Ramadan
4. Giving out Zakaat
5. Performing holy pilgrimage to Mecca
The last 2 is conditional i.e it is not mandatory on all muslim except those that have the means (money) and strength to observe it as the case may be, Less attention is often paid to Zakaat by the ulamas and those that qualifies to pay it. Insha Allah, this thread will be updated with importants and salients points about Zakaat.

moshoodn:
Who's Bin?

you don't know bin?

Then fix a date for the big fight

hmmmmmm

that man from warri, Beaf what is he saying about this , just as dayokanu said, are they from the north (almajiris)

Studio said he is ready for you, just fix a date and he will be in for you

bin gbagbo:
he is a reserve goalkeeper for a club(name withheld)

name the club, that will determine the proposal, moreover. A reserve

Which club is your brother playing for, that will determine what to do

Just as Platinni said, what remains for Messi is to lift the world cup and he will be compare with the likes of Pele,Maradona and Zizzou.

You make me laugh in igbo. Hehehe

But the story being peddle around suggest that you fail to show up for the fight

bright007:
Where is d joke?

when will you start seeing clearly?

Atleast after making a little research you get it now. Then figure out where Muhammad (saw) belongs. If you humble yourself, you'll always learn

The much touted fight of the year between bin and studio schedule to take place December last year never took place, feelers said bin has been afraid all year about what the outcome may be as he don't have what it takes to fight. Our reliable source said this is one of the strategy employe by his mentor Bash. Another challenge is hereby thrown at Bin to redem his name.

David, All along you have portray yourself as being intelligent yet you can't differentiate between LITERATE and EDUCATED. what a 'smart' fellow.