Zakat, Fidya, Kaffarah and Fitra Explained
Need help working out your ZAKAT? FIDYA? KAFFARAH? FITRA? Let iQra International help you. Give us a call on 020 7790 7744. Zakat, or almsgiving, is one of the five pillars of Islam, along with prayer, fasting, pilgrimage and belief in Allah and His Messenger. For every sane, adult Muslim who owns wealth over a certain amount – known as the nisab, defined as the value of a particular weight of silver or gold – he or she must pay 2.5% of that wealth as zakat. The word itself comes from the Arabic ‘to purify’, as in the Qur’an: “take…
