An Intelligent Guide to Zakat with Dr Osman Umarji
The Thinking Muslim
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The Role of Zakah in Eliminating Poverty
In the early days of islam zakah was seen to be a means to alleviate poverty. The prophet al-is al-a-salaam in nakolafar ashidin used that money to deal with systemic poverty issues. There have been numerous estimates even in this current age of capitalism and global inequality that if there was an approximately four percent of a gDP transfer from the wealthy to the poor in a country. It's theoretically possible today in the muslim world to eliminate poverty in those countries now what is the current state?
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