What are the different ways Muslims perform zakat?

Answer 1

There are the mandatory zakat which is 2 1/2% of ones yearly savings paid to a masjid or Islamic organization for distribution. Then there is voluntary charity called sadaqat which can be paid to anyone, at any time in any amount. Even a smile of kind deed can be sadat. Then there is zakatul fitr which is the charity given at the end of Ramadan or day of the Eidul Fitr (Feast of Fastbreaking) to purify ones fast and ask that it be accepted. The nisab (amount) is usually $10 per family member. Hope this helps

Answer 2

Regarding the zakah on money savings, Muslims pay Zakah (alms giving) on the money if it exceeds the specified minimum limit when this money completes full one Hijra year. The simple practical way, is that you fix a specific lunar month and every year, at that month, you calculate your money savings. If this money exceeds the minimum limit then you pay, during this month, the required zakah (minimum 2.5 % of that money).

Answer 3

Muslims pay Zakah because Allah told them to, in the holy Qur'an. Not only in Islam, even in Christianity, Christianity is the message of forgiving and loving one an other and Zakah is the Arabic word for giving money too the poor, and since Qur'an came in Arabic, Muslim's use it.

Muslims pay Zakah because Allah told them to, in the holy Qur'an. Not only in Islam, even in Christianity, Christianity is the message of forgiving and loving one an other and Zakah is the Arabic word for giving money too the poor, and since Qur'an came in Arabic, Muslim's use it.