Read the following text about Zakat; and Charity. Then Give your comment on one of the following questions. write in not less than 50 words and more than 100 words! After that email your answer to marsnuraini@gmail.com
1. How can paying zakat make you free from the love of yourself?
2. How can paying zakat make you learn self-dicipline?
Zakat; Charity
Zakat is the
compulsory giving of a set proportion of one's wealth to charity. It is
regarded as a type of worship and of self-purification. Zakat is the third Pillar of Islam.
Zakat does
not refer to charitable gifts given out of kindness or generosity, but to the
systematic giving of 2.5% of one's wealth each year to benefit the poor.
The benefits
of Zakat, apart from helping the poor, are as follows:
- Obeying God
- Helping a person acknowledge that everything comes from God on loan and that we do not really own anything ourselves
- And since we cannot take anything with us when we die we need not cling to it
- Acknowledging that whether we are rich or poor is God's choice
- So we should help those he has chosen to be poor
- Learning self-discipline
- Freeing oneself from the love of possessions and greed
- Freeing oneself from the love of money
- Freeing oneself from love of oneself
- Behaving honestly
The 2.5%
rate only applies to cash, gold and silver, and commercial items. There are
other rates for farm and mining produce, and for animals.
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