Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ Zakat brings benefits and wards off harms ]
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Likewise, bringing benefits and paying harm, for the zakat on bringing benefits is intended to help him to perform obedience to God, such as sleeping, eating, drinking, resting, saving money, and the like. As for paying harm, he should not pay it except for the reason that it prevents him from what he wants of residence. Obedience to God and His religion and the happiness that leads to him in the Hereafter are one-fifth of its pillars. If I say how it harms one’s religion, I mean by that if he does not prevent that harm from himself. Otherwise, it prevents him from performing an obligation of God’s obligations or prevents him from the causes of goodness, so he repays it as one-fifth of its pillars, whatever is in its creation. Harms that do not lead to the obstruction of an obligation that he was obligated to perform or that he desired. The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, was asked about ore, and he said: It is the gold that God creates on the earth on the day He c