The Holy Qur’an, Taubah 9:60, enumerates the receivers of zakat: “Alms are for the poor and the needy, and those employed to administer the (funds); for those whose hearts have been (recently ...

The very word evokes the alms box, filled by niggardly ancients who salve their consciences by financing new shoes and vegetables for the poor. No one can pigconhole charity that way any more.

Among all these, giving alms to the poor is one of the chief witnesses to fraternal charity: it is also a work of justice pleasing to God. Give alms from your possessions, and do not let your eye ...

called on wealthy people in the state and country at large to sanitise their wealth by giving out the compulsory alms to the poor from every rich man. Tafida said that the governor has ordered ...