Hadith No -8- Kitaab-ul-Eeman (کتاب الاایمان) Bukhaari Shareef (Ahaadees Mubaarkah)(Part-5)

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Quranic Verses About Zakat

Allah says of Zakat in the very early Makkan surah Al-Muzzammil (The Mantle-Wrapped One) (73):

Yet you shall duly establish the Prayer. And you shall give the Zakât-Charity, and therewith 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 (Sûrat Al-Muzzammil, 73:20).

Also:

Then steadfastly continue to duly establish the Prayer, and give the Zakât-Charity (Sûrat Al-Mujâdilah,, 58:13).

And:

For woe to those who associate gods with God, those who do not give the Zakat-Charity, those who are disbelievers in the Hereafter (Sûrat Fuṣṣilat 41:7).

Note that this defining Zakat verse from Sûrat Al-Tawbah (9) actually uses the word ṣadaqah (prescribed charitable offerings) in its Quranic legal meaning of Zakat:

Indeed, ‘prescribed charitable offerings’ are only to be given to the poor and the indigent, and to those who work on administering it, and to those whose hearts are to be reconciled, and to free those in bondage, and to the debt-ridden, and for the cause of God, and to the wayfarer. This is an obligation from God. And God is all-knowing, all-wise (9:60).

Is Zakat purely transactional in the Quran?

No. Allah equates Zakat with high spiritual development and, indeed, with belief itself. One can see both these aspects in the first two verses mentioned in the previous question’s response.

Muslim scholars define knowledge in and of Islam not by the information one retains regarding it, even if that is vast, but by the implementation of that revealed guidance with conscious gratitude in one’s life, no matter how little or minor that conversion of revealed counsel into deliberate action may seem.

Why did Allah use the Arabic word Zakat for this obligatory alms?

According to the brilliant Quran commentator and linguist Al-Wâḥidî (468H/1075CE) of Nishapur, Khorasan, the name zakat signifies that this mandatory charity from a believer “increases” the wealth from which it is taken when it is given to its rightful recipients, the ones designated by Allah, as such.

Allah settles this divine investment on a believer for him or her to pay it out to its divine designees, like a bond or a trust, upon that wealth’s maturity date. When the believer complies, this alms payment “protects” the wealth from which it came from dissipating or being destroyed.

The Prophet said, in this regard:

A person's obligatory alms does not remain mixed with his other wealth without obliterating it” (Bukhari, in his Târîkh Al-Kabîr, The Large History of Hadith Narrators).

Ibn Taymiyyah (661H/1263CE) said that it is not only the wealth of the Zakat-payer that undergoes increase and purification but also the soul of the believer who upholds his or her Zakat obligation.

The Quran itself seems to bear out this meaning:

Take from their wealth a ‘charitable offering’ to cleanse them and purify them thereby (Sûrat Al-Tawbah, 9:60).

Does the Quran say that Prophet Muhammad, on him be peace, was alone among the prophets and righteous predecessors to carry out Zakat?

No. Allah tells us that He commanded all the prophets and communities of righteousness and Heavenly Revelation before us to give Zakat, according to the measures and limits He set for them.

The Quran reports that Prophet Jesus, peace on him, said this miraculously shortly after his birth:

And thus has He made me blessed, wherever I may be. And further, He has enjoined me to be ever observant of the Prayer, and to give the Zakat-Charity, as long as I am alive (Sûrat Maryam, 19:31).

In the same surah, our father Isma‘îl is mentioned, peace on him:

And mention also in the Book, the tiding of Ishmael. Indeed, he was ever true to his promise. And he was a messenger and an eminent prophet. He used to enjoin his family with the Prayer and the Zakat-Charity. Thus, to his Lord, he was ever-pleasing (Sûrat Maryam, 19:54-55).

So too Abraham, Lot, Isaac, and Jacob the Quran records as recipients of the command of offering Zakat.

And we made them exemplary leaders, guiding to faith by Our command. For We made them prophets and revealed to them Our commandments bidding the doing of good works, and the establishment of the Prayer and the giving of the Zakat-Charity. Thus to Us alone did they offer worship (Sûrat Al-Anbiyâ’, 21:73).

Does the Quran point to Zakat as a standard of evaluation for institutions as well as individuals?

Yes. Allah defines fair government and just authorities, in part, as those that use the societal positions He bequeaths to them and the power at their disposal to organize the systematic taking of obligatory alms from those He has enriched to give it to the designated needful.

In other words, governments and leaders that are equitable and moral establish His prescribed mechanisms of mandatory charity to redistribute wealth among the people in order to offset the imbalances that human beings in community inevitably skew toward.

These are the ones who when We set them in authority over the land, they duly establish the Prayer, and give the Zakat-Charity, and enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong. Yet to God alone belongs the ultimate end of all affairs (Sûrat Al-Ḥajj, 22:41).

 

الَّذِيْنَ يُؤْمِنُوْنَ بِالْغَيْبِ وَ يُـقِيْمُوْنَ الصَّلٰوةَ وَ مِمَّا رَزَقْنٰھُمْ يُنْفِقُوْنَ    

جو بن دیکھے ایمان لاتے ہیں اور نماز قائم کرتے ہیں اور جو کچھ ہم نے انہیں دیا ہے اس میں خرچ کرتے ہیں

Those who believe in the unseen and keep up prayer and spend out of what We have given them. 

SURAH BAKRAH AYAT NUMBER 30

خُذْ مِنْ اَمْوَالِهِمْ صَدَقَـةً تُطَهِّرُھُمْ وَتُزَكِّيْهِمْ بِهَا وَصَلِّ عَلَيْهِمْ ۭ اِنَّ صَلٰوتَكَ سَكَنٌ لَّھُمْ ۭ وَاللّٰهُ سَمِيْعٌ عَلِيْمٌ    ١٠٣؁

آپ ان کے مالوں میں سے صدقہ لیجئے، جس کے ذریعہ سے آپ ان کو پاک صاف کر دیں اور ان کے لئے دعا کیجئے  بلاشبہ آپ کی دعا ان کے لئے موجب اطمینان ہے اور اللہ  تعالیٰ خوب سنتا ہے جانتا ہے۔

Take Sadaqah (alms) from their wealth in order to purify them and sanctify them with it, and invokeAllah for them. Verily! Your invocations are a source of security for them, andAllah is All-Hearer, All-Knower.

SURAH TOBAH  AYAT NUMBER 103

In Quran E Kareem

Allah Subhana Tala have ordered on many places about Zakah. It is the obligation to pay zakah. Whoever will delay in giving the zakat is doing sin. Who donot pay Zakat on its wealth is not in the circle of Muslim. Because orders about Zakat are given in Quran Pak, and one who will not obey the teaching of Quran, he/she is not obeying the orders of Allah. So Dear ones, who are reading this articles must focus on paying zakat, and must tell to all Muslim community where they can approach.