Book of Zakat

Zakat is the pillar most Muslims intend to calculate properly and most end up estimating. The obligation is clear; the arithmetic is where people get stuck.

What the Book Covers

The obligation itself and its standing as the third pillar of Islam. The nisab — the threshold below which nothing is due. The categories of wealth on which Zakat falls, and the rate applying to each. The hawl, the lunar year a sum must be held for. And the eight categories of recipient named in the Quran.

Why It Is Worth Getting Right

Because Zakat is not charity. It is a right held by specific people over your wealth, and paying too little means someone entitled has been denied. The narration in the title makes the point from the other side: paying it removes the vice from what remains.

Who It Is For

Anyone calculating their own Zakat. Imams and community workers who are asked about it every Ramadan. Business owners, for whom trade goods and receivables are the part that causes most confusion.

Related Reading

• Zakah According to the Qur'an & Sunnah — a fuller reference covering shares, property and modern assets
• Treatises on Zakat and Fasting — Shaykh Ibn Baz's treatises on Zakat and fasting
• Fatawa on Fasting, Zakat & Taraweeh — scholarly verdicts on fasting, Zakat and Taraweeh