One such mechanism practised widely across Pakistan, and the Muslim world in general, is zakat. Zakat constitutes an annual payment amo­unting to approximately 2.5 per cent of wealth held by an ...

Zakat is a form of obligatory almsgiving in Islam and one of its five central pillars. It requires Muslims who meet a certain wealth threshold to donate a fixed portion, usually 2.5 percent of ...

The other pillars are Shahada (faith), Salah (prayer), Zakat (almsgiving) and Hajj (pilgrimage). Muslims fast from eating and drinking during sunlight hours. Fasting is a means to being closer to ...

It's a time when Muslims are especially mindful of giving back to their communities through zakat [almsgiving] and volunteerism. "Ramadan will again look different with mosques holding prayers ...