Zakāh
Definition
Zakat is the third pillar of Islam — the obligatory annual levy on accumulated wealth above a minimum threshold, distributed to eight categories of recipients specified in the Quran. Al-Ghazali insists that zakat is not a compromise between Islam's spiritual ideals and economic reality but a spiritual act of the highest order: it is the submission of the hand to Allah after the tongue has submitted in prayer and the body has submitted in fasting. The person who gives zakat correctly — with correct calculation, correct recipients, correct intention — has performed an act of worship equivalent in its demand to the salah.
As understood in the classical tradition of Imam al-Ghazali and the scholars of his school.
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