{"id":2832,"date":"2022-04-08T18:45:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T17:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2022-04-08T18:45:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T17:45:44","slug":"zakat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/2022\/04\/08\/zakat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Zakat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our khutba\ntoday is about a financial act of worship which protects the soul from its\ngreed and purifies it from stinginess. It is about Zakat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The imam\nspeaks of the following hadith in which the prophet SAWS said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIslam is built on five pillars; the Shahada that there is no\ngod except Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, establishment of\nSalat, payment of Zakat, Hajj and the fasting of Ramadan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is very\nimportant that every believer in Allah should not underestimate and neglect\nthis significant pillar of the religion and that he\/she should happily pays\nhis\/her Zakat. One should remember that it is Allah Who has blessed one with\nthe money he has, and He only obliged him to pay a small fraction of it (2.5%)\nas Zakat. Compare that to the tax we pay on income of around 30%. One should\nalso remember that Allah SWT gives great reward for the payment of Zakat on the\nDay of Judgement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The imam\nmentioned the 110<sup>th<\/sup> ayat of Sura Baqara in reference to this\nreminder. It is translated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Establish prayer, and pay alms-tax. Whatever good you send forth\nfor yourselves, you will \u02f9certainly\u02fa find \u02f9its reward\u02fa with Allah. Surely Allah\nis All-Seeing of what you do<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the imam\nalso referenced the 103<sup>rd<\/sup> ayat of Sura At-Tauba which is translated\nto say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take from their wealth \u02f9O Prophet\u02fa charity to purify and\nbless them, and pray for them\u2014surely your prayer is a source of comfort for\nthem. And Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear\nbrothers and sisters, we can see from the ayat referenced that Allah SWT places\na great reward on this act and therefore we should strive to make sure we\naren\u2019t neglectful in this act of worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside\nthis, the imam made a number of interesting observations on the mention of\nzakat in the Quran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first of\nthese was that the mention of Zakat is around 30 times in the Quran but of\nthese, almost of all them are next to the word for prayer, salat, around 27\ntimes. This goes to demonstrate to the one who ponders over the words of Allah\nSWT, how much emphasis and importance He placed in Zakat as it is mentioned\nalongside the act of prayer itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another\npoint to note is that the Quran mentions that Zakat is important for many of\nthe social constructs we are blessed with. From the blessing of brotherhood\nthat our Ummah enjoys to the impact it has on the community, Zakat is more than\njust an individual act of worship, it\u2019s benefit impacts far and wide and offers\nblessings on our dunya as well as the reward we will receive from Allah SWT in\nthe next life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, the\nvery masjids we pray in are directly impacted from this act of worship. The\nimam reminded us of this point by referencing the 18<sup>th<\/sup> ayat of Sura\nAt-Tauba which is translated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mosques of Allah should only be maintained by those who\nbelieve in Allah and the Last Day, establish prayer, pay alms-tax, and fear\nnone but Allah. It is right to hope that they will be among the \u02f9truly\u02fa guided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear\nbrothers and sisters, the act of Zakat is not just for us and it\u2019s not just for\nthe next life. It\u2019s impact is significant and widespread in the world in which\nwe currently reside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\nreminder concludes with 5 individual benefits of the act of Zakat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is a way of cleaning and purifying\nour income and ourselves.<\/li><li>It makes us closer to one another,\nour community, our brotherhood and our humanity.<\/li><li>It is a reason for us to enter\nParadise<\/li><li>It is a source of our success in this\nlife also. This is directly instructed to us in Sura Muminoon which has the\nfirst 4 ayats translated to say:<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Successful indeed are the believers: those who humble\nthemselves in prayer; those who avoid idle talk; those who pay zakat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It separates the believers from the\nhypocrites.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear\nbrothers and sisters, zakat is a compulsory charity as instructed by the giver\nof our sustenance. It would be non-sensical to ignore this duty that is placed\nupon us. And by using this month as the financial end of year, we can fulfil\nthe duty placed upon us as well as earn the extra reward of performing this\ngreat deed in the month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our khutba today is about a financial act of worship which protects the soul from its greed and purifies it from stinginess. It is about Zakat. The imam speaks of the following hadith in which the prophet SAWS said: \u201cIslam is built on five pillars; the Shahada that there is no god except Allah and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon"],"blocksy_meta":[],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}