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Zakāt (زكاة) is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. As a compulsory (fard) requirement of Islam, every year 2.5% of one's wealth must be given away to poor or needy Muslims.

Slaves and horses owned by Muslims are exempt from this taxation,^[1][2] and it is generally agreed that non-Muslims are not to benefit from the alms giving.^[3] This has led to mainstream Islamic charities, like Islamic Relief, almost exclusively^[4] focusing their humanitarian work in Muslim majority nations or areas in non-Muslim countries which are heavily populated by Muslim minorities.

In the aftermath of the 2010 Pakistan floods, many Christian survivors were denied aid supplied by Muslim charities for this very reason.^[5]

See Also

• Zakat - A hub page that leads to other articles related to Zakat
• Accidents and Natural Disasters in the Muslim World

External links

• Islamic Relief and the Myth of Non-Discriminating Muslim Charity
• Biggest Islamic Relief revenues are from “secular” government agencies
• Aid Flotillas: Save Haiti from a cholera outbreak, not Hamas from itself
• Haiti: Islamic ‘Charity’ Means More Mosques

References