1. Zakat Objectives & Guidelines

2. In the Name of Allah the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

9. One of Key Pillars Al-Hajj /78 So establish regular Prayer give regular Zakat and hold fast to Allah ! He is your Protector the Best to protect and the Best to help!

10. Zakat key element of Faith Al-Baiyina /05 And they have been commanded no more than this: to worship Allah offering Him sincere devotion being True (in faith); to establish regular Prayer; and to practice regular Zakat ; and that is the Religion Right and Straight.

14. Zakat is a Worship Al-Baqara /110 And be steadfast in prayer and regular in zakat : and whatever good ye send forth for your souls before you ye shall find it with Allah; for Allah sees well all that ye do.

21. Who Qualify for Zakat Alms are only (exclusively) for the poor and the needy and those employed to administer, and those whose hearts are to be reconciled and to free the captives and those in debt and in the way of Allah and the wayfarer a duty imposed by Allah and Allah is Knowing, Wise ” Surah Tuba:60

32. Why Pay Zakat

33. Zakat Increases Wealth Ar-Rum-39 The interest that you give in order to increase the wealth of the people, does not increase in the sight of Allah : and the Zakat that you pay in order to win Allah ’s approval, its payer do indeed increases their wealth.

36. Zakat is Over and Above the Normal Sadaqat

37. Zakat is Over and Above the Normal Sadaqat Al-Baqara-177 It is no virtue that you turn your faces towards the east or the west, but virtue is that one should sincerely believe in Allah and the Last Day and the Angels and the Book and the Prophets and ,out of His love, spend of ones’s choice wealth for relatives and orphans, for the needy and the wayfarer, for beggars and for the ransom of slaves, and establish Salat and pay Zakat . And the virtuous are those who keep their pledges when they make them and show fortitude in hardships and adversity and in the struggle between the Truth and Falsehood; such are the Truthfull people and such are the Pious

38. Punishment for not Paying Zakat Surah Tuba “ & those who hoard up gold & silver & do not spend in the way of Allah, proclaim a grievous punishment, on the day when it (horded wealth) shall be heated in the fire of Hell, then their foreheads & their sides & their backs shall be branded with it, this is what you hoarded up for yourself, now taste what you horded ”

41. Summary

43. Prayer O my Lord! Be merciful to us because of (our link with) the Quran; Make it for us a leader, and a source of light, guidance and mercy, cause us to recall from it what we have failed to understand; give us strength to recite it day and night; and make it a plea for our salvation, O Lord of the worlds – Ameen!

44. Open Discussion