Zakat Made Easy

Two and a half per cent that changes everything.Zakat is the third pillar of Islam - the annual giving of a measured portion of a Muslim’s surplus wealth to specified categories of people in need. The rate is small. The practice, kept across a lifetime, is transformative.Zakat Made Easy takes a new Muslim from the first question (do I owe it?) to the last (where does it go?) without assuming prior knowledge. It explains the nisab threshold and the lunar year. It walks through what counts as zakatable wealth. It compares the four schools where they differ. It works through worked examples in pounds, dollars, dirhams, and euros.Short enough to read in an evening. Clear enough to use for a lifetime.Second edition, revised and reset. Book Eleven of The New Muslim Companion - a series of twenty books for the new Muslim, the returning Muslim, and the curious reader: plain English, no Arabic assumed, honest about where scholars differ.