“The believer’s shade on the day of resurrection will be his charity” [Timridhi]. Zakah is a mandatory practice of worship among Muslims, whereby earnings we have held for an entire year and did not use, must be taxed at a percentage of 2.5% and distributed to people in need.
This could be almost anyone in destitution by order of; indirect family, friends, underprivileged people in a local community, or a humanitarian organization that ventures internationally to support people and children, in struggling nations like Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, etc. Donations like the latter typically invest in bigger projects, they reconstruct and relieve immediate problems such as clothes, clean water, education, food, housing, and medical care.
Organizations such as these are able to help impacts such as victims of natural disasters also which as we know is a recurring conflict in today’s world especially. By the considerate contributions they receive, they are able to issue fundamental survival services and products such as food packs, survival packs, and protection packs.
They can also go to regions in which populations are extremely deprived, to begin with, such as Afghanistan by which they resort to projects that are more innovative such as building substantial housing, launching schools, and initiating engineering systems like adapters for clean water.
