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Zakaat is one of the 7 pillars of Islaam. Zakaat means giving 2.5% of your saved capital (profit, gold etc), every year in the month of Ramazaan, to the Ulil Amr who is Hujjatullaah, the representative of the religion in place of Nabi, Wasi or Imaam. It is the Ulil Amr who then distributes the Zakaat to the needy and poor. If the Ulil Amr distributes the capital of Zakaat evenly to the poor people then it is obvious that it will help in the upbringing of the poor people. Giving out money or any help indiviually is called as Sadaqaah (charity) which unlike zakaat, does not have any specific calculations.

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