An Intelligent Guide to Zakat with Dr Osman Umarji
The Thinking Muslim
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The Importance of Tax Collectors in a Modern Capitalist Economy
The zakah was traditionally understood to be about regional poverty alleviation because money is generated in every single town. The obligation of the individuals of each town the wealthy was to transfer that to the poor of their town. One year moi vibnujaval he wrote a letter to omarin katab and he returned a third of the zakah assets. Omar became very angry and he said that i did not send you as a tax collector to burden the people but i asked you to take from their rich and to give it back to their poor. By the third year there's actually no one in any need of zakah in that region anymore which meant that by
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